Sad to find out things like this on the left leaning BBC. Of all the notable people to commenarate, the "female" US treasurer issues the activist Maya Angelou.
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January 11, 2022, 09:18 AM
Veeper
I'm glad the racist quarter has now been redeemed.
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January 11, 2022, 09:36 AM
spunk639
We should just put Obama on all our currency and coins. The leftists would love that because it would embrace their leader and it would be woke.
January 11, 2022, 09:41 AM
DrewR
Meanwhile, prices are up and shelves are bare… but hey, progress.
Laughing in the face of danger is all well and good until danger laughs back.
January 11, 2022, 09:46 AM
sparkyfender
Prostitute turned crappy poet? But I guess some boxes were checked.
January 11, 2022, 09:53 AM
mcrimm
I didn't know her but my brother knew her fairly well while he was in Hollywood. He had nothing but kind words to say about her and how her counsel had help mold his life.
I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham
January 11, 2022, 09:59 AM
HayesGreener
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Maya Angelou
Not sure I seek "woke" in this. She rose from abject poverty, was an accomplished performer, poet, and author, and an ICON to the Black community. I don't see anything that offends me about the coin.
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January 11, 2022, 10:37 AM
tgtshuter
I don't see "wokeness", as much as there is "diversity".
It's the first of five quarters issued for 2022 as part of a four year "American Women Quarters" program.
Sally Ride is the next quarter to be issued, then 3 other women I don't recognize, but they are American Indian, Hispanic, and Asian, in that order.
So maybe some wokeness, because there has to be diversity. Or is it equity? Or both?
January 11, 2022, 10:38 AM
OttoSig
Have we gotten to the point where you guys are calling everything you don't like "woke"...
Cause I think there is irony in that.
11 years to retirement! Just waiting!
January 11, 2022, 11:08 AM
smschulz
In an effort to increase D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y ~ Donald J Trump should be added to Mount Rushmore.
January 11, 2022, 11:17 AM
sigalert
I like the Sally Ride coin. But I think Christa McAuliffe is more worthy.
Of course we all know why Sally was chosen. Another highly accomplished individual dumbed down to her immutable characteristics.
ETA: Actually, a series of the entire Challenger crew would be fitting.
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January 11, 2022, 11:47 AM
Vegas_Sig
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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
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Maya Angelou
Not sure I seek "woke" in this. She rose from abject poverty, was an accomplished performer, poet, and author, and an ICON to the Black community. I don't see anything that offends me about the coin.
^^^^^^^^^^^^ agree ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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January 11, 2022, 11:56 AM
ZSMICHAEL
I cannot remember using a quarter for anything except when the washer broke and I had to go to the laundromat.
January 11, 2022, 12:41 PM
YellowJacket
I'm fine with it as long as it's still worth $0.25.
I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log.
January 11, 2022, 01:04 PM
18DAI
Maya Angelou? Isn't she that "poet" of the left who didn't write all the poems she is credited for?
The "Professor" at a NC College who never taught a class and whos office was literally a broom closet with her nameplate on the door? Shes back again? Makes sense. Regards 18DAI
Originally posted by bigwagon: I prefer dead Presidents on my coins.
Same
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How big an egomaniac do you have to be to write 7 autobiographies?
January 11, 2022, 01:42 PM
2BobTanner
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Originally posted by bigwagon: I prefer dead Presidents on my coins.
On American circulating coins, I prefer the Head of LIBERTY, such as those on coins issued in the 19th and early 20th Century, along with good coin silver for the metallic content.
Using the profiles of Presidents smacks of monarchy and the Cult of the Leader. It’s been all about “conditioning” the populace for seeing BIGGOV as the “giver” of benefits, instead of the being the “taker” of Freedom.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
