(note — this is an artist's conception from 2015 when the official decision to put a woman's picture on currency was announced —
it is in no way the official or final design and should not be construed as such)
Hmm.... black and female; qualifies for double-minority status. Too bad she wasn't also physically handicapped and gay; the government would have hit the jackpot and been able to please just about everybody. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
A slave owner and architect of serial genocides of Native American peoples is being replaced with an abolitionist and humanitarian. If I were American, I know which aspect of my nation's history I would prefer to be reminded of every time I used currency.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
You're assuming, Scooter, that most people even think about that when they spend their money. Most Americans cannot correctly name the portraits on all seven denominations currently in circulation, and even fewer can correctly identify the illustrations on the reverse of the bills.
Test yourself — I'll give you the denomination; you name the famous American on the front and the illustration on the rear. (Answers included but masked — left-click and mouse over the area to the right to reveal them)
$1.00 — George Washington — front and rear of the Great Seal of the United States
$2.00 — Thomas Jefferson — detail of Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence"
$5.00 — Abraham Lincoln — front view of the Lincoln Memorial
$10.00 — Alexander Hamilton — front view of the US Treasury Building
$20.00 — (currently) Andrew Jackson — north face of the White House
$50.00 — Ulysses S. Grant — front view of the US Capitol Building
$100.00 — Benjamin Franklin — Independence Hall in Philadelphia PA
for extra credit — officially withdrawn from circulation but some are still in the hands of collectors:
$500.00 — William McKinley — numerals "500" superimposed on an oval panel
$1000.00 — Grover Cleveland — the words "United States of America" and "One Thousand Dollars" -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
Bicycle Bill wrote:You're assuming, Scooter, that most people even think about that when they spend their money.
You obviously cared enough about it to dismiss the change as an exercise in political correctness. If it really didn't matter to you, you wouldn't have created this thread.
Test yourself — I'll give you the denomination; you name the famous American on the front and the illustration on the rear.
I knew all of them except the back of the $500 and $1000, and I'm not even American. Was this supposed to prove something?
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
I heard the movement to change the ten spot to a woman failed with the Broadway success of 'Hamilton' and It would not be until 2020 at the soonest that the 20 would be changed.
Scooter wrote:A slave owner and architect of serial genocides of Native American peoples is being replaced with an abolitionist and humanitarian. If I were American, I know which aspect of my nation's history I would prefer to be reminded of every time I used currency.
Change for the better.
AndrewD would have approved, he had a particular and well-founded loathing for Andrew Jackson.
Scooter wrote:Soon we'll be hearing about laws passed in the legislatures of southern states that will allow business to refuse to accept the new $20 bill.
Artist JMW Turner and his painting The Fighting Temeraire will feature on the new design of the Bank of England's £20 note to enter circulation in 2020.
The English Romantic artist was chosen from a list of public nominations - the first time the Bank has asked who should appear on a specific banknote.
The note, to be made of polymer, will eventually replace the current £20 note featuring the economist Adam Smith.
The choice means all but one Bank of England banknote character will be men.
Of the five characters on banknotes by 2020, other than the Queen only Jane Austen - appearing on the £10 note from 2017 - is a woman.
The men who will feature by 2020 are Sir Winston Churchill on the £5 note who will replace campaigner Elizabeth Fry from September, Turner on the £20 note, and Matthew Boulton and James Watt remain on the £50 note.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Perhaps because it's from the only self-portrait he painted?
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
