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Most of Our Currency Notes Depict Slaveowners - Some Want to Revise It
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:06 am
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:06 am
Here’s an interesting break from EpsteinGate:
WRKF was running a piece this morning on how most of our currency notes bear the likeness of slaveholders. The interviewed guest runs a non-profit that is fighting to change this. I’m pretty sure this was a syndicated show by NPR, not a local interview.
5 of the 7 individuals (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Franklin) were slave owners at some point, although Franklin later became an abolitionist and Grant’s ownership was brief.
Regarding our most common coins, 2 of the 5 individuals depicted (Washington, Jefferson) were slave owners.
I personally don’t think we should completely revise our currency system, but this just shows there is an appetite to keep the conversation going. I can see this gaining traction within another generation, especially if we see a shift back to a left administration.
WRKF was running a piece this morning on how most of our currency notes bear the likeness of slaveholders. The interviewed guest runs a non-profit that is fighting to change this. I’m pretty sure this was a syndicated show by NPR, not a local interview.
5 of the 7 individuals (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, Franklin) were slave owners at some point, although Franklin later became an abolitionist and Grant’s ownership was brief.
Regarding our most common coins, 2 of the 5 individuals depicted (Washington, Jefferson) were slave owners.
I personally don’t think we should completely revise our currency system, but this just shows there is an appetite to keep the conversation going. I can see this gaining traction within another generation, especially if we see a shift back to a left administration.
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Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:08 am to RFK
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:08 am to RFK
quote:On the chopping block.
runs a non-profit
quote:On the chopping block.
by NPR
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:11 am to RFK
Without Washington, and to a lesser degree Jefferson, there is no United States of America.
Period. Full stop.
Period. Full stop.
This post was edited on 7/11/25 at 9:12 am
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:12 am to RFK
quote:
this just shows there is an appetite to keep the conversation going
What more of a “conversation” needs to be had? How does relitigating the same arguments about the past solve anything in 2025 or make anyone’s lives better?
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:13 am to RFK
quote:
Here’s an interesting break from EpsteinGate:
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:14 am to RFK
If we can't have pictures of slave owners around we damn sure cannot be controlled by the laws they wrote. Right?
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:17 am to RFK
Remember people were pushing this ugly mug:
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:18 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:
That is quintessential Northeast middle aged white wine mom guilt right there. Pathetic.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:21 am to RFK
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:22 am to RFK
I would be okay with getting the federalist swine, Alexander Hamilton, off of our currency.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:27 am to RFK
OK, let's put Trump on our money.
This post was edited on 7/11/25 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:29 am to RFK
Sweet, replace the dolla with Grandpa Reagan, The 2 with ole’ Geo Bush II, the 20 with Daddy Orange and the hunnid with Elon
This post was edited on 7/11/25 at 9:30 am
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:31 am to ChanceOfRainIsNever
quote:I think it’s wasted air.
What more of a “conversation” needs to be had? How does relitigating the same arguments about the past solve anything in 2025 or make anyone’s lives better?
But my point is it will be more and more difficult to keep elements of our country’s history related to the ownership and forced labor of human beings. I assumed as we get further from the end of slavery that it would become less important. The continuing “conversations” prove otherwise.
Take the Mississippi flag for example. IIRC there was a state-wide vote on the old flag around 2010. The majority of voters voted to keep it, and many thought the issue was finally resolved.
Fast forward 8 years and the flag was changed because it was a growing political liability. Even after the people spoke.
Ole Miss is another example. The school chips away more and more each year at the old south heritage. It’s probably only a matter of time before the Rebel moniker is changed entirely. Maybe not in our lifetime, but within another generation.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:32 am to RFK
"but this just shows there is an appetite to keep A CONTROVERSY going."
Fixed it for you.
Fixed it for you.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:34 am to goatmilker
"If we can't have pictures of slave owners around we damn sure cannot be controlled by the laws they wrote. Right?"
BINGO.
BINGO.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:34 am to RFK
Your party is currently promoting child slave labor
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:36 am to RFK
quote:
but this just shows there is an appetite to keep the conversation going.
It shows the world is full of morons with too little else to do in their worthless lives.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:36 am to AdamsHouseCat
quote:
but this just shows there is an appetite to keep A CONTROVERSY going
Spreading misery and brainwashing people to convince them that they are oppressed is a key communist strategy.
Communism can't spread through a content society.
Posted on 7/11/25 at 9:36 am to RFK
quote:
Take the Mississippi flag for example.
or the Georgia flag
It was changed for reasons...to a virtual copy of a different Confederate flag.
The whiners are too stupid to notice.
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