Ten-Dolla Holla

[Perianne]

I am gonna bet the woman will be black.

On Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said a woman will be featured on a redesigned $10 bill in 2020 -- the 100th anniversary of the Constitution's 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.





A decision on who the woman will be won't be made for several months.


The last woman on U.S. paper currency was Martha Washington, who was on the $1 Silver Certificate between 1891 and 1896.


"We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I'm proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman," Lew said.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/17/news...n-dollar-bill/

[gabosaurus]

And that would be wrong ... why?

[Perianne]

And that would be wrong ... why?

Who said it would be wrong?

[Jeff]

And that would be wrong ... why?

I don't believe it would be wrong, but I do believe you would do best putting what is the majority in the country on the bill, putting a black woman on their just to be politically correct is stupid at best, find a woman black, white, yellow, or orange that did something that has to do with money or just something that was fantastic and put her picture on it.

[Bilgerat]

Why Harriet Tubman will be chosen for the Ten Dollar Bill

Here’s why, based on a presumed list of criteria for the female candidate:

She will be dead, and pro-democracy — A primary criteria for getting your face on America’s money is that you have to be dead. Plenty of famous women meet that criteria, of course, but that’s the first hurdle. The second one sets a higher bar. As the Treasury website notes:

Democracy is the theme for the next redesigned series and the Secretary will select a woman recognized by the public who was a champion for democracy in the United States. The person should be iconic and have made a significant contribution to — or impact on — protecting the freedoms on which our nation was founded.

She will have name recognition — If you didn’t hear her name mentioned in history class in junior high, you likely won’t see her name linked to the new ten.

She will not be Susan B. Anthony — Anthony seems like she would be the obvious choice, considering her connection to the 19th Amendment. And she has plenty of champions. But there is also an obvious reason it won’t be Anthony: she was already on the dollar.

The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981 and again in 1999. The public hated it—not Anthony, just the coin (which was too similar in size to the quarter). But Anthony had her shot. The Treasury Department is not going to waste this historic opportunity to simply shift Anthony’s visage from a coin to a paper bill.

She will be African American — To date, only two women have appeared on U.S. paper currency. One was white (Martha Washington) and the other was Native American (Pocahontas). It’s time for an African American woman.

In light of those tentative requirements, the field is narrowed to only three candidates: Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth.

More here http://blog.acton.org/archives/79551...e-10-bill.html