U.S. Mint To Honor Maya Angelou And 4 Other Notable Women On Quarters

[Unkotare]

We have Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollars — nothing should be wrong with that in the spirit of Lady Liberty — but women should be honored for more generic accomplishment, not as being female for the sake of being female.

They are being honored for their accomplishments, perhaps you should read up on what those are.

Please don't be as stupid as JGalt.

What accomplishments? Never heard of anyone of them before this thread ...

Are you kidding?

 

[justinacolmena]

Are you kidding?

Kidding? You call that Democrat business with nanny goats and billy goats "kidding?" There's a petting zoo downtown — if a boy pets a baby goat, every hooker on the block pulls political strings behind his back to make sure he's convicted of child pornography or child molestation and gets registered as a sex offender when he grows up.

 

[Unkotare]

Are you kidding?

Kidding? You call that Democrat business with nanny goats and billy goats "kidding?" There's a petting zoo downtown — if a boy pets a baby goat, every hooker on the block pulls political strings behind his back to make sure he's convicted of child pornography or child molestation and gets registered as a sex offender when he grows up.

Are you off your meds again?

 

[Dana7360]

Are you kidding?

Kidding? You call that Democrat business with nanny goats and billy goats "kidding?" There's a petting zoo downtown — if a boy pets a baby goat, every hooker on the block pulls political strings behind his back to make sure he's convicted of child pornography or child molestation and gets registered as a sex offender when he grows up.

Are you off your meds again?

Yes

 

[justinacolmena]

Are you off your meds again?

What the fuck sort of "meds" are you DEALING, without your own prescription pad, you dirty democrat asshole piece of shit?

 

[JGalt]

We have Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollars — nothing should be wrong with that in the spirit of Lady Liberty — but women should be honored for more generic accomplishment, not as being female for the sake of being female.

They are being honored for their accomplishments, perhaps you should read up on what those are.

Please don't be as stupid as JGalt.

What accomplishments? Never heard of anyone of them before this thread ...

Are you kidding?

Of course I'm kidding, silly. But why put women's faces on money when they had nothing to do with the foundation of this country? As opposed to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et al.

Sure, it gives the feminists and left-wingersa feel-good moment, but really? Most feminists are Democrats, the same party that fought tooth and nail against the Republican Susan B. Anthony. So was Ada James a Republican, as were most all the those who took part in the suffrage movement.

 

[justinacolmena]

Sure, it gives the feminists and left-wingersa feel-good moment, but really? Most feminists are Democrats, the same party that fought tooth and nail against the Republican Susan B. Anthony.

Feminists HATE trans women.
Feminists reluctantly TOLERATE gay men, as long as they can be registered as sex offenders and kept away from them and "their" children.
You may think of them as ultra-strict hyper-moral church ladies, and the men with whom they associate are the worst of the worst.

 

[Pellinore]

We have Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollars — nothing should be wrong with that in the spirit of Lady Liberty — but women should be honored for more generic accomplishment, not as being female for the sake of being female.

They are being honored for their accomplishments, perhaps you should read up on what those are.

Please don't be as stupid as JGalt.

What accomplishments? Never heard of anyone of them before this thread ...

Are you kidding?

Of course I'm kidding, silly. But why put women's faces on money when they had nothing to do with the foundation of this country? As opposed to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et al.

Sure, it gives the feminists and left-wingersa feel-good moment, but really? Most feminists are Democrats, the same party that fought tooth and nail against the Republican Susan B. Anthony. So was Ada James a Republican, as were most all the those who took part in the suffrage movement.

In fact, Mary Garrett Hay, who was instrumental in New York becoming the first East Coast state to grant women's suffrage, was rarely seen in public without her white Republican elephant necklace. She became known for it.

But the Republican party then wasn't what it is now. At the time, it was a coalition of the pro-tariff, pro-business protectionists like Taft, and social progressives like Roosevelt. It was way more popular in the industrialized north, which is where Anthony, James, and Hay were all from. Their two branches split in the late 00's/early 10's, allowing the Democrat Wilson to split the vote and setting up another party realignment after the war.

 

[Unkotare]

... But why put women's faces on money when they had nothing to do with the foundation of this country? ....

"They" had quite a lot to do with it.

 

[Pellinore]

It is also worth noting that Lewis and Clark despised Sacagawea's fur trader husband. He did little to contribute to anything, and was quick to complain, while Sacagawea never complained and got them through the Bitterroot's alive (exhausted, famished, and some suffering illness, but they made it) Perhaps most amazing, and worthy of a Hollywood movie, is after being kidnapped from her Shoshone tribe, she stumbled upon her brother who she had not seen for years, and recognized some childhood friends, and had a tearful reunion with her tribe.

Yep. The three worst things to be on that expedition were lazy, drunk, and complainy, and Charbonneau was all three. Other Natives certainly would have seen the Corps as a war party if not for the baby-toting woman at the front, and at one point she rescued the diary from the water after the canoe capsized. Plus, the bit with her brother? She really was amazing, and possibly the biggest single reason they succeeded at all.

Hell ya bro.

Sacagawea ...

Suggested reading: "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

Definitely! Devoured it long ago; it's on my living room bookshelf as we speak.

 

[odanny]

It is also worth noting that Lewis and Clark despised Sacagawea's fur trader husband. He did little to contribute to anything, and was quick to complain, while Sacagawea never complained and got them through the Bitterroot's alive (exhausted, famished, and some suffering illness, but they made it) Perhaps most amazing, and worthy of a Hollywood movie, is after being kidnapped from her Shoshone tribe, she stumbled upon her brother who she had not seen for years, and recognized some childhood friends, and had a tearful reunion with her tribe.

Yep. The three worst things to be on that expedition were lazy, drunk, and complainy, and Charbonneau was all three. Other Natives certainly would have seen the Corps as a war party if not for the baby-toting woman at the front, and at one point she rescued the diary from the water after the canoe capsized. Plus, the bit with her brother? She really was amazing, and possibly the biggest single reason they succeeded at all.

Hell ya bro.

Sacagawea ...

Suggested reading: "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

Definitely! Devoured it long ago; it's on my living room bookshelf as we speak.

Yea, I read that one right after Citizen Soldiers, two of my favorites by the same author.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this.

For the racist right, it’s yet another example of white grievance politics – that America is being ‘taken away’ from whites, that ‘white culture’ is being minimized and diminished.

With regard to women in general on currency, it violates the reactionary right’s devotion to ‘tradition,’ it represents positive, beneficial change conservatives fear.

So what it comes down to is they need to get a grip.

Many may not be able to – as a consequence of their ignorance and unwarranted fear and anger, most conservatives will continue with their hate and lies.

Other rightwing demagogues will continue to attack positive, beneficial change and the contributions of women of color and women in general as part of their campaign of misinformation, dividing the American people, and lies.

And still others on the right will forever be hateful racists and misogynists.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Why is this a problem for people?

It’s a problem for conservatives who have an unwarranted fear of positive, beneficial change, diversity, and inclusion.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

If the title of this thread was
"U.S. Mint To Honor Sally Ride And 4 Other Notable Women On Quarters," none of these repugs would have a problem with it.

"U.S. Mint To Honor Sally Ride And 4 Other Notable White Women On Quarters."

Agreed.

 

[LuckyDuck]

My personal preference is restricting the faces on currency to presidents, but as the mint seems determined to put other individuals on our currency, then it should be individuals that have actually made "very significant" contributions to society and poetry isn't it. I would be against it even if Shakespeare was an American.