Posted on 06/17/2015 9:17:41 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Will it be Susan B. Anthony or Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt or Rosa Parks? Or another important woman from American history?
These will be among the names the nation ponders after the Obama administration’s announcement late Wednesday that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill, the first time in well over a century that a female portrait will grace the United States’ paper money.
The redesigned bill will be unveiled in 2020 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the right of women to vote. The Treasury Department is launching a massive public campaign to solicit suggestions through social media and town halls for what the bill should look like and who should be on it. The only requirements for candidacy are that the woman be deceased and embody the theme of the bill’s new look: “Democracy.”
“America’s currency makes a statement about who we are and what we stand for as a nation,” said Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who has the authority to make the decision. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Dolly Madison
Oh, that would make Progressives apoplectic.
Fellow communist Angela Davis?
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Portrait of Angela Davis by Obama's "Hope & Change" artist Shepard Fairey
Angela Davis
Source: The Jonathan Levine Gallery
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS
* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”
Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz. A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303
Yup, that’s it. PERFECT.
You are quoting something i never said.
I think you posted a picture and it didn’t show. that hurts. Any image of her from the eighties is worth looking at :)
that’s hysterical :)
The quotes are from the linked wikipedia piece.
Put Farah Fawcett Major on the ten dollar bill
How about these as choices, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelley, Lena Horne, Billie Holliday. The current choices are too PC for me.
Put Gabrielle Bundchen on the ten dollar bill
Was this it?
How about puting Kate Hudson on the ten dollar bill
lol. I was hoping for a picture of Tawny and now you’ve damaged my eyes for the night.
Bob Hope's 1967 Christmas show
Bear Cat base camp, S. Vietnam, December, 1967; John Olson, ©Stars and Stripes
Bob Hope dances with actress Raquel Welch during his 1967 Christmas tour of U.S. bases in the Far East. Among the other performers on the tour were singer Barbara McNair and Miss World, Madeline Hartog Bel.
http://www.stripes.com/photoday/welch/pages/welch_hope01.html
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FOXNEWS.COM HOME: YOUR WORLD W/ NEIL CAVUTO
Transcript: American Beauty
August 12, 2005
NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: When you think of Hollywood legends or at least when I think of Hollywood legends, my next guest really comes to mind. She's a Golden Globe winner, she's a Broadway star, and did I mention, she is — oh gosh — she is a knockout. On Saturday [August 13, 2005], actress Raquel Welch will be honored by the Vietnam Veterans of America for entertaining the troops with Bob Hope back in 1968.
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