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The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided. The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".
The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury. Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.
Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.
Who should it be?
Additional coverage: NYtimes.com
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:24PM
Better question, why do the existing ones have to be evil rich men?
$1 George Washington - led a rich mans revolt against the English with a conscripted army of poor folks who gained nothing except Washington and his thugs not summarily executing them, if they refused to fight for him. A man who's entire wealth outside of land holdings was measured in slaves.
$2 Thomas Jefferson - A serial rapist (of "his" slaves) who enslaved his own children. Jefferson, on the breeding of humans for sale, “I consider the labor of a breeding woman, as no object, and that a child raised every 2 years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring man.”
$5 Abraham Lincoln - another vile racist, "...If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it..." He also wanted to deport all black people from the US after the civil war.
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I suggest Emma Goldman - "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." Or, "It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom..."
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:25PM
+1 Emma Goldman
(Score: 1) by boxfetish on Saturday June 20 2015, @10:04PM
+2 Emma Goldman
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Saturday June 20 2015, @07:01PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @08:53PM
Lincoln
...and let's not forget The War of Northern Aggression that he led.
Folks who don't know about Sherman's March to the Sea or Sheridan's rape of the Shenandoah Valley should look that up and see how the concept of war against the civilian populace was kicked into overdrive under Lincoln.
...and note here that England and Canada did away with slavery without a war.
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A favorite line from a History teacher of mine:
"The only administration more corrupt than Grant's first term was Grant's second term."
Grant's main characteristic was that as commander of the Union Army he was all too willing to hurl other people's fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers into a meat grinder (unlike McClellan who, having built and trained that army, didn't want to lose a single guy unnecessarily).
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by twistedcubic on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:42AM
$20 Andrew Jackson - the most evil racist of them all, after correcting for social norms, in my opinion. Almost all white people were racist back then, but Jackson was a very special genocidal asshole.