Thanks for the link. Fascinating. Though until I Googled, I have to confess that I didn’t know who Hector Garcia or Spark Matsunaga were. They seem to be odd choices to me.
I’d like to chime in to say that I depise carrying coins. I’d hate to see the $1 bill replaced with a $1 coin. I also have no interest in a $2 valued currency because it seems unncecessary (IIRC, one also has to consider that most cash register tills don’t have enough bins to hold a $2 coin or bill.)
Look on the back of the dollar bill. Admittedly, that’s not the same as a coin – but you could have the image engraved on or scanned to a metal disc – they can do that now, right?
Few people would be comfortable using negro as a descriptive for black, yet The United Negro College Fund uses the term in their name. Why? Because back in the day it was started that was the term in common use. The antiquated terms are still there in the titles as a vestigial remenant of the times they were founded in.
However, today most people associate those terms with the racism of the past, therefore they are frowned upon in most contexts.
I guess Grant doesn’t get much credit for that because his achievements in the civil-rights field, like those of the Radical Republicans generally, did not last. When Reconstruction ended and the Confederate states were readmitted to the Union, their white elites were given free rein to roll back Reconstruction’s achievements, enact the Jim Crow laws, etc. And so it remained until the 1950s.
It is customary for the central cartouche on a bill to display a portrait of the person so honored – a portrait showing only the face, neck and shoulders. Do you have a different style of portraiture in mind?
No, not unless other parts of the bill were appropriated for the purpose. Maybe a headshot for the front and an artist’s rendition of a still image from one of any of those performer’s fine films on the back.
I’m not American, so maybe I should butt out, but I think ‘prominent’ figures are a better choice than just politicians/leaders (although there’s no logical reason why a political leader can’t also merit the position also) - other countries do this - in the UK we have Darwin on the £10 note (it used to be Dickens).
I’d think Edison, Einstein and Armstrong would be good candidates.
Do you know something about the personal life of George Washington that we don’t? Personal diaries of Martha Washington, maybe? 'cuz otherwise he’s the odd duck out on that list…
(Insert your own “Father of our country” joke here)
One offends lots of people, the other doesn’t. Simple empirical truth here - observe the situation. What kind of analytical thought involves ignoring observations about the world around you?
For the love of God, why can’t people just give up the silly wars about what to call others and just go with whatever most of 'em like best?
Yes! Been reading this thread just waiting for someone to bring the guy up. Elsewise I was gonna have to do it myself. Him, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton - who else was as instrumental in founding the country as these dudes?
Meanwhile, I nominate John Coltrane for the twenty. Gotta get that Jackson dude off of there.
