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COMMENTS:
I thought only presidents were on currency, didn't know about Barnum .
with all these state coins being isssued, it might be in the plans. I hear that's about the only way you can get americans to save soem money...
by LCD on Fri Apr 21, 06 3:00pm
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Alexander Hamilton is on currency. He was never president.
Ben Franklin on the $100 and half dollar back in the fifties, Sacagawea on the dollar, and Susan B. Anthony on the dollar.
Those are just the circulating currencies. Dozens of subjects have been depicted on commemmorative coins.
OIC, forgot about Franklin and Hamilton
I noticed the Susan B.
Anthony coins did not go
over that well...but
dollar coins are not very popular anyway...
sooner or later he may be on a stamp or coin.
I could list a hundred inventors, both well known and obscure, who have contributed more to improving the average Americans life than Dr King, where are all the coins for them?
could list a hundred inventors, both well known and obscure, who have contributed more to improving the average Americans life than Dr King, where are all the coins for them?
by lil_ape on Apr 21, 2006 4:37pm
Maybe the white Americans life, meanwhile blacks were segregated and in many cases killed for being black
^ Im sorry, I was under the impression that Black people in America have also benefited from Airplanes,calculators, refrigerators etc
Oh, and dont forget sliced bread.
Besides, though Dr King undoubtededly accelerated the process admirably, it is my opnion that the Civil Rights movement would have come to fruition without his efforts, albeit at a later date.
I think equal rights are more important than those inventions.
thats your opinion
Your country wouldnt have ANY RIGHTS AT ALL if not for some of your greatest inventors.
How would you have stood up to the nazis without Airplanes for instance?
It wouldnt have mattered if you were white OR black then would it?
Black people in America have also benefited from Airplanes,calculators, refrigerators etc
Oh, and dont forget sliced bread.
by lil_ape on Apr 21, 2006 4:53pm
I think equal rights are more important than those inventions.
by larrynelmira on Apr 21, 2006 4:56pm
But ... My beer would wouldn't be cold now!!
Ignore the strangely out of place 'would' in my last sentence.
Lets put things into perspective here. Would you rather have penicillin save MILLIONS of lives for the MAJORITY of your country, or equal rights for the MINORITY?
Nore: Im fully aware that Penicillin is NOT an American invention, im just continuing the theme of technological endeavour versus civil.
equal rights I would rather have
Nore=note
I_C = lol
You would rather have half your population DEAD than a small minority being treated badly?
You wouldnt make a very good general Larry lol
that's good, because a general is the last thing I would want to be
In fact, for all intents and purposes you are effectively saying you value the lives of Black Americans more than White Americans.
Logic as follows;
If you were non-racist, then white and black peoples lives would be equal in value, we would all be valued equally as human beings, therefore it would be fair to say that for all intents and purposes
Value of a black persons life = Value of a white persons life
Now, by YOUR logic you would let MILLIONS of white people die from lack of penicillin, so that a vastly smaller amount of black Americans could enjoy enhanced civil rights?
Surely thats racist?!
blacks would not be immuned from disease, not having the medicine would effect them too, I value all people equally, and it's not as though someone is saying,"If you give them equal rights we will take away the penicillin"
That entire comparison is stupid.
I would say King was just as important as many of the other people who are or have been on the currencies
Larry, IMO Lil ape is right, but I can also see where you are coming from too. Don't let the pc police brainwash you into thinking that it was the most important thing in the world. It was important, don't get me wrong, but it's also ok to say that there's also other things in this world equally, or more, important.
Although, it was the most important thing in the world to black people.
Your original point was that the black Americans would not benefit from the inventions I mentioned, because of their lack of civil rights. Thus you valued Martin Luther Kings contributions to society more than the inventors.
Now, going by that, if Martin Luther King hadnt secured those rights for the Black Americans, they wouldnt have had access to penicillin because of their colour. So you are valuing the rights of Black Americans over the lives of the white Americans that penicillin could have saved, even if it hadnt saved the Black Americans.
And if you value Black and white lives equally, then that is the wrong choice.
I think I pretty much blew it with the pc police tonight IC on some of my other ballots and comments. And I'll concede that was not the most important thing to happen in the history of the world, but it was very important.
seems like you are saying whites are more important, because without the equal rights, blacks probably would not have received the penicillin.
so let the blacks die as long as there is enough penicillin for the whites, how is that fair?
or you know in the segregated south, if it came down to who would get the medicine first, it would not be the blacks.
I know this is off topic of the original comments, but I'm just saying that could and maybe did happen.
I say maybe, I sure it did happen.
"We must not allow ... any force to make us feel like we don't count."
Like the conservatives have done to the liberals.
Great question. I must admit, I never thought about it until I saw this ballot. Im sure it will eventually happen, but its long overdue.
I wish more people shared your sense of morality, larry. If more of us had the clarity to look beyond subtle biases and framings -- to have a sense of what was important in life and, even more critically, what was moral, we'd have a better world.
At least there's a holiday in his honor!
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