Maybe they should put Michael Jackson on the $20. King of Pop, after all.
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I"ll happily put him on there for having apparently pissed in your Cheerios.
And on the back, all the kids he abused.
I can think of two non-consecutive reasons.
That might be a worthwhile trade…
Steve Jobs? I mean, people do need jobs.
I say MLK should be on the 20. He certainly was no more flawed than the forefathers and a central figure in US history.
Or put Lincoln on there and get rid of the penny altogether.
Yeah…no.
I don’t have anything against him. I just don’t think he was a great president.
His handling of the Cuban missile crisis and aversion of a nuclear war is significant, no?
Significant? Sure. It’s not much of an achievement when you avert a war you would have been responsible for starting, though. By that standard, every POTUS since about 1960 was great because none of them caused a nuclear holocaust.
of course he is not a reverend, no one is,“reverend” is not a noun. He was THE REVEREND Martin Luther King Jr.
I don’t see any way in which it can be denied that Martin Luther King was a Reverend. He received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. (He also had a BA in sociology from Morehouse College and a Doctorate in Philosophy from Boston University.)
The standards for who is entitled to call themselves a Reverend are somewhat loose, but there is no standard that would say King did not qualify.
And he was the pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery (in case people are convinced that he wasn’t a reverend because he never “practiced” or something).
So yeah, education + professional preacher = reverend.
I’m most intrigued by Saraya’s concept of physical womanizing as opposed to…some other kind of womanizing.
You and my mom. I was talking about this last week. I said we could have significant cultural figures, maybe John Muir, Samuel Clemens. My mom said, no, Presidents, personifications like Liberty, wildlife.
I want Samuel Clemens and George Carlin on the money; I’d put Ambrose Bierce on the money, but you have to be confirmed dead. 
Democratic President, elected twice, back when the GOP owned the White House.
Well, if we’re going that way, then let’s make it a rule just to put kings (well, royals) on the money:
Michael Jackson, King of Pop
Elvis Presley, King of Rock’n’Roll
Jack “King” Kirby
Duke Ellington
um…
Martin Luther King
Gerald R. Ford (né Leslie King)
Stout Rex, er, Rex Stout
Steve McQueen
er…
Little Nemo and Rollo Tomasi, I am not denying his qualifications, but he is not “a reverend”. Reverend is not a noun it’s an adjuctive, He is THE reverend MLK Jr.
It’s become a noun, frequently used interchangeably with “pastor” or “minister.” Object if you want, but that’s where the language has taken the word. Do a Google search for “I am a reverend,” and you’ll even find clergymen referring to themselves as “a reverend,” not “the reverend.”
But quite frankly, I think that’s all beside the point, since I have a sneaking suspicion that Saraya’s objection to the use of “reverend” for Dr. King wasn’t of a grammatical nature.
From a pragmatic view, I’d hate to put the 20’s spot up for consideration. The liberal wing of the decision committee would split among a handful of choices. The conservative fringe may go the Paul or a similarly batshit route, but the largest block would go with St. Ronnie. Ugh.