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A woman will appear on redesigned $10 bill in 2020

I don't have a pony in this race but I don't know of any woman more deserving than Rosa Parks.

What Parks did is nothing to sneer at, but reading through Susan B. Anthony's bio I think she would be more qualified. Although known primarily for her leadership in Woman's Suffrage, she did an enormous amount of work in the Abolition Movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
 
If no woman is more deserving than Rosa Park to be on our currency then clearly no woman deserves to be on our currency.

What would a woman have to do to qualify?
 
Drop the "woman" part and ask if there is any PERSON more deserving than Parks. Like say Rev.King...
Rev. King already has a day named after him but Rosa Parks would be the first Black and the first woman as well. She never held high office and lived a rather normal life, under segregation if that is normal, but she rose, or appropriately didn't rise, to the occasion. That took courage and it symbolized an entire peaceful movement.
 
What Parks did is nothing to sneer at, but reading through Susan B. Anthony's bio I think she would be more qualified. Although known primarily for her leadership in Woman's Suffrage, she did an enormous amount of work in the Abolition Movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony
Susan B. Anthony, and you are right about her contributions, but has already been honored on the dollar.
 
Susan B. Anthony, and you are right about her contributions, but has already been honored on the dollar.

The silver dollar is a complete joke. Its ergonomics are completely incompatible with how Americans use currency.
 
Rev. King already has a day named after him but Rosa Parks would be the first Black and the first woman as well. She never held high office and lived a rather normal life, under segregation if that is normal, but she rose, or appropriately didn't rise, to the occasion. That took courage and it symbolized an entire peaceful movement.

I'm not syaing anything derogatory or dismissive about Parks whatsoever. What I am doing (and I think that the OP was doing as well) was challenging this as a basically sexist decision. If we want to put someone on a bill, then it should based entirely on thier merit and gender should have nothing to do with it. The simplest way of addressing this would be to list the top 100 most historically important people for this nation and work our way through the list - top to bottom. Parks would definitely make that list, but she would be in the upper middle of it, not at the top. Gender should have NO part in this decision, just historical importance.
 
I'm not syaing anything derogatory or dismissive about Parks whatsoever. What I am doing (and I think that the OP was doing as well) was challenging this as a basically sexist decision. If we want to put someone on a bill, then it should based entirely on thier merit and gender should have nothing to do with it. The simplest way of addressing this would be to list the top 100 most historically important people for this nation and work our way through the list - top to bottom. Parks would definitely make that list, but she would be in the upper middle of it, not at the top. Gender should have NO part in this decision, just historical importance.

You are too nice.


The fact of that matter is that a woman only "deserves" to be on a bill when compared to other women. When it comes to comparing them to men, no woman even comes CLOSE to deserving to be on currency. But that is just me having a high standard for America. People who want to put a woman on currency just to put a woman on currency do not feel as proud of this country as I do, clearly.
 
You are too nice.


The fact of that matter is that a woman only "deserves" to be on a bill when compared to other women. When it comes to comparing them to men, no woman even comes CLOSE to deserving to be on currency. But that is just me having a high standard for America. People who want to put a woman on currency just to put a woman on currency do not feel as proud of this country as I do, clearly.

Right. Because you think every woman in history is inferior to all the men on those bills.
 
We all know you really believe that. Or so you say.

Name one woman in American history that did more for this country than the men currently on our currency.


Ill go watch some paint dry.
 
Do you think any woman in American history deserves it?

No, since a lot of them will be used to buy smokes, booze and drugs and why is this such a great leap for women, 90% of the country can not tell you who is on any of our bills? Add to that ask a person on the street who the people are and what they are famous for.....Lincoln made cars for Ford Motors, Hamilton made blenders, Jackson played for the NY Yankees, Washington is where the Redskins play and Grant was Mary Tyler Moore's' boss.
 
Name one woman in American history that did more for this country than the men currently on our currency.


Ill go watch some paint dry.

You've been given plenty of examples. And as I already pointed out, Hamilton didn't do ****.
 
You've been given plenty of examples. And as I already pointed out, Hamilton didn't do ****.

And, he distrusted democracy, favored a strong central government, argued for a lifetime appointment of a monarchical executive not unlike Britain. No, had his views won out America would have looked very different early on, and never would have had the experience that we did have. George Washington said, "it will be Mr. President and that's it", and only accepted a second term after so much pressure from friends and colleagues.
 
No, since a lot of them will be used to buy smokes, booze and drugs and why is this such a great leap for women, 90% of the country can not tell you who is on any of our bills? Add to that ask a person on the street who the people are and what they are famous for.....Lincoln made cars for Ford Motors, Hamilton made blenders, Jackson played for the NY Yankees, Washington is where the Redskins play and Grant was Mary Tyler Moore's' boss.

Your post is about the perfect example of a straw man. No one has said anything about what money is used for, and that usage is unlikely to change, and no one is claiming this is a "great leap for women", and no one is making any claims about how many people know who is on each bill and what they did, nor is it relevant to whether any woman has done anything to deserve to be on a bill.
 
You've been given plenty of examples. And as I already pointed out, Hamilton didn't do ****.

Hamilton fought in the Revolutionary War, was Secretary of Treasury, helped write the Bill of Rights...he was a FOUNDING FATHER.


But yea, some bitch who sat on a bus deserves to replace him on currency. :roll:
 
Who thinks it will be a political pick, rather than a women actually deserving. Knowing Obama it will be Bathtub/Fruit Loop/Bimbo lady.
 
Hamilton fought in the Revolutionary War, was Secretary of Treasury, helped write the Bill of Rights...he was a FOUNDING FATHER.


But yea, some bitch who sat on a bus deserves to replace him on currency. :roll:

And people think right-wingers are misogynistic.
 
Who thinks it will be a political pick, rather than a women actually deserving. Knowing Obama it will be Bathtub/Fruit Loop/Bimbo lady.

Who the hell is that?
 
And people think right-wingers are misogynistic.

Which is the greater accomplishment? Being DIRECTLY involved in the birth of this nation, or sitting on a bus?
 
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