Deplorable MAGAT Heads are going to EXPLODE!

Meh they will get over it. Reparations on the other hand....

This is one woke change I actually agree with. There should be a black person on at least one currency, and Harriet Tubman would make sense.

Umm, OP, do you think I'm pretty sure Harriet Tubman was a Republican.

You didn't find a lot of black people supporting the Democrats during the civil war.

[quote] There should be a black person on at least one currency, and Harriet Tubman would make sense.

What about MLK. I think it would be more fitting for him to be on a currency note.

He already has a national holiday.

What about me on the $20 bitches? I almost played her to perfection. We could split them.

That's not a bad idea, R5.

Why CAN'T we have more than one person on the face of a bill?

Then everyone would be happy.

Sacagawea Should be the first woman on paper currency.

Who the fuck still uses cash?

Our currency is among the most boring in the world. I think we emulate the South Africans and the Swiss. This is a good start to diversifying our bills though.

What's cash?

R1, isn't that what welfare is?

This is stupid and not an immediate priority.

Absurd. I feel like America is over. I love America but it’s over and it’s been declining since Lyndon Johnson. I blame him.

Will there still be cash in 2030?

[quote] Will there still be cash in 2030?

Shhhhhhhh!!!!

You're going to attract the Bitcoin loon to this thread.

Typically American - give something to Blacks that white people don't want anymore.

Why not Bill Clinton, the first black president?

Lmao ^

I say we put a robot on our currency.

Or a martian.

That way, no one will be happy.

Can we use a service dog for the more rare $2 bill?

What about the even rarer $3 bill? Cher?

Why is it absurd R13?

I think Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice, would also be a good choice.

Cancel the Cancel Culture! All Lives Matter! Except Black Lives! Make America Patriotic Again!

R23, Harriet is a two-fer.

Um what am I chopped liver?

Gee thanks for the nickel,

typical.

You just know some smooth brained magat is going to suggest they burn their twenties

LOL R27, I was thinking the same thing.

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[quote]What about MLK. I think it would be more fitting for him to be on a currency note.

Because behind closed doors and when the cameras were off, MLK was a piece of shit.

I know it's a bit soon, but why not put Barack Obama on the $20 bill?

I actually think that the first black President in the history of the US, is more significant than the stories of the other people who are being suggested.

As long as there's not reparations, and affirmative action is struck down in a couple years, I'm fine with this. I'd be especially fine if it weren't permanent, but changed every five years or so.

It should have been done at the close of the Obama administration, like so many things.

I think Harriet Tubman, because she is a woman, is more inclusive.

I fucking despise people who use the welfare is repatriations line. Mostly because there are millions of white people on welfare who are sort of forgotten. Never mentioned by these jerks trying to score points and as a white guy raised by a family who at times collected welfare it's not only racist but it erases us which means all the 'woke' do-gooders automatically chose kids of color to help. Even if that kid's parents are middle class because welfare and poverty are so associated in people's subconscious minds (inc well meaning people). So not only is your racism completely laughable but you're screwing over white people trying to escape generational poverty too. But I'm sure you feel a rush for a few seconds thinking you're 'owning' people on the internet.

R34, who are you talking to?

I feel the same way about this as I do monuments. It's in poor taste to build a monument for a person who is still living. It should be similar to beatification.

Harriet Tubman's name should not be put in a hat with other African Americans just so we can say we have a black person on a bill. Harriet Tubman lived an exceptional life that can only be compared to a story that you'd find in the Bible. Everything she ever accomplished, even as a child, practically had to be a result of divine intervention because of the odds stacked against her. Her face on a $20 is the absolute least the country can do to memorialize her.

[quote]affirmative action is struck down in a couple years

r32 MAGA racists arent going anywhere, so neither is affirmative action. Deal with it.

No not really. A young mixed-race man born to well-educated parents, a father with an Ivy League education, who went on to Harvard himself and eventually became President is a great success story but it is not a patch on what Tubman, Parks, King, Lewis achieved.

R34

R11 made the claim

I vote for Ann Miller.

R37, affirmative action in education is doomed unless Biden expands the SC.

Time to take all wypipo off our money.

I like the design of American money.

Those multi-colored rainbow bullshit notes look like Monopoly money to me, and too many of them are stuck all over with glow-in-the-dark looking crap.

I like American cash too. Mean green!

Wouldn’t a penny bring out her natural glow better than a free bill?

THEY’RE PUTTING A BLACK PERSON ON OUR MONEY! HOW DARE THEY? RADICAL LEFT! SOCIALISM! 🤡

I can see these idiots stamping hateful sayings on these bills when they receive them, or making a scene at a store and demanding tens and fives.

Who uses paper money?

But seriously, as long as they leave Hamilton on the $10 dollar bill, I'm okay with it.

That article on MLK was fucking disturbing. And yet, maybe MLK is the conversation our country needs right now to deal with cancel culture? Do we agree as a nation to separate acts of moral courage from the person? Or should we not do that? I don’t even know the answers myself, but I think it’s a conversation we need to have. If we are going to hold every historical figure to the standards of today, who will be left if we cannot honor the work they did? MLK is a great example of this dilemma. And again, I don’t have an opinion on it either way, I’m not sure what the correct answer is. It’s quite the pickle!

I’m against it. I ain’t no racist, I jes' think we should only have presidents on our money. You know, great presidents like Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin and guys like them there.

r47, I agree. I remember on some Bravo show, someone's father wouldn't use 5 dollar bills because of Lincoln. Never forget!

US bills are ugly and outdated. I like the colorful currency abroad. But what do you expect from a country that still doesn't use the metric system.

I like US money and I like the colorful money like Euros. There you go, uniting in 2021!

R51, that was Thomas’s father (is that the correct punctuation for the possessive of Thomas?). Absolutely disgusting.

It also shows you that Abe was mistaken in his post-war efforts to keep the country together. He was a great man and very brave, but I think it was a mistake to not hold the South accountable for tearing apart the country. I mean shit, the Ravenel old man is saying this literally 150 years after the fucking Civil War — that’s NUTS. It’s wild.

r31 They're not going to put a living person on currency. They can't do it for stamps, either.

[quote]I can see these idiots stamping hateful sayings on these bills when they receive them, or making a scene at a store and demanding tens and fives.

Can you imagine what they'd do if they put Harvey Milk or another famous gay person on one?

R52 & R53 the most gorgeous currency I'd ever seen was in French Polynesia - the CFP franc prior to the recent redesign around 2013. I think they now have aquatic life on them.

[quote] Harriet Tubman lived an exceptional life that can only be compared to a story that you'd find in the Bible. Everything she ever accomplished, even as a child, practically had to be a result of divine intervention because of the odds stacked against her.

Thanks for sharing that.

I know next to nothing about Harriet Tubman, and I am pretty well read (in certain subjects).

I can just imagine what the average American knows about her, much less the average Deplorable.

I think this is the biggest challenge the new currency will face.

There should be an educational program that comes along with the issuance of a new currency note.

[quote] I remember on some Bravo show, someone's father wouldn't use 5 dollar bills because of Lincoln. Never forget!

R51, what R54 wrote is correct, but just to clarify it was Thomas Ravenel's (Southern Charm) father.

He's an old South Carolina racist.

I can only imagine what he thinks about Kathryn (the mother of his grandchildren) fucking a black guy. Whose last name is also Ravenel. Rofl.

[quote] Who uses paper money?

Please shut the fuck up already.

Nobody cares what you think.

Take your haughtiness and your stupid crypto currency, and shove them both up your stupid asshole, you tiresome piece of shit.

How about Alfalfa?

SORRY- BUCKWHEAT was the black kid. I don't know how to pigeonhole the Alfalfa.

There are millions of good-looking black people they could have used. Why would anyone want to use Tubman instead?

Frederick Douglass had a very noble appearance and would have been a far better choice.

[quote] But seriously, as long as they leave Hamilton on the $10 dollar bill, I'm okay with it.

He should be the first to go for enabling the nightmare of income inequality we face today.

R14 as long as there are drug dealers and politicians there will be cash.

Nobody uses cash anymore except olds.

[quote] Nobody uses cash anymore except olds.

Everyone uses cash except for pretentious, obnoxious crypto-cunts who think they're sooooo cool, when in fact they're just insecure twats.

r66 is yet another DL shut-in who has no experience with the real world in 2021.

[quote] Nobody uses cash anymore except olds.

Also people who use cash for nefarious reasons to avoid leaving a trail. We need to move to a cashless society.

[quote] We need to move to a cashless society.

You need to drop dead, you obnoxious, pretentious TWAT.

r69, once we go cashless, it will be nice to see you arrested for whatever you’re trying to hide.

Cashless societies discriminate against the POOR, you pretentious, callous CUNT at R70.

That's why New York City put a stop to it.

So you can fuck right off.

I get taking Jackson off and paying tribute to Tubman, but I don't see a $20 bill would be the way to do it. She wasn't president or instrumental in creating a government institution or amendment. It's so clearly about getting a twofer--Black AND female, but whatever. She'll be an improvement on Jackson.

[quote] It's so clearly about getting a twofer--Black AND female, but whatever.

That's basically what happened when Biden chose Kamala Harris to be his running mate.

Expect more of this in the future.

The Tubman note is even uglier than the Susan B Anthony dollar. People wouldn't use that either. The federal reserves still warehouse tons of unissued coins.

Susan B. Anthony looked like such a hatchet-faced prude.

what about any native american? do we have any native american holidays?

[quote] the most gorgeous currency I'd ever seen was in French Polynesia - the CFP franc prior to the recent redesign around 2013. I think they now have aquatic life on them.

I like the idea of using animals on currency, rather than people.

It keeps politics out of the equation.

[quote] Those multi-colored rainbow bullshit notes look like Monopoly money to m

Haha, same here.

Every time we crossed the border into Canada and exchanged our money, we would always joke that it looks like Monopoly money.

American greenbacks look much more official.

Canadian money really does make me giggle. It looks like play money.

How do Canadians feel about it?

How was the Orange Menace able to hold that up after all?

[quote]She wasn't president or instrumental in creating a government institution or amendment

She was a badass who ran the Underground railroad and led troops in the Civil War. Shot a lot of white supremacists. Great role model for our times.

Canadian money basically *is* play money.

Should I start a Lets Be thread? "Lets be deplorable nicknames for $20 Tubmans?

[quote] what about any native american?

Sacagawea already had her moment.

“first minted in 2000, although not minted for general circulation between 2002 to 2008 and again from 2012 onward due to its general unpopularity with the public”

I like the idea of using animals on currency,

I like that too. Our currency used to be much more impressive.

[quote] Meh they will get over it. Reparations on the other hand....

I always assumed Reparations were a non-starter until I saw how greedily Deplorables accepted stimulus checks from my tax dollars. I'm ineligible for a check but those disgusting MAGAts could storm the Capitol and demand a stimulus check to buy more guns. Stimulus is a redistribution of wealth, which apparently is now palatable to most.

So Reparations don't seem like a stretch. Opposition to it would be purely racist

I know you bitches aren't outright saying it, but you just don't want Harriet on the $20 bill because she's unattractive.

Just admit it, already!!!

They should put Beyonce on the $20 bill.

[quote] They should put Beyonce on the $20 bill.

There's no way her fat ass would fit.

It should be Oprah, dammit!

[quote] There are millions of good-looking black people they could have used. Why would anyone want to use Tubman instead?

WTF??!!! Are Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson or Abe Lincoln supposed to be handsome?! We just spent four years with a misshapen grotesque white freak as President. Obviously, the aesthetics police have been sleeping on the job for centuries.

Go to sleep, Gayle at R90!

You're off the clock.

Yeah, the dumb MAGAts are gonna burn their own money!

We need to come up with a scheme now to make them send it to us instead. Maybe some kind of "Send us those desecrated twenty dollar bills and on the Fourth of July we'll televise the greatest Bonfire of White Pride ever!". Then, we'll keep half and donate the other half to the NAACP.