10 Dollar Redesign: Replacing Hamilton with whom?

[emilynghiem]

Alexander Hamilton to Share Image on 10 Bill With a Woman - Yahoo Finance

Though I generally resist changing the historic traditional design, maybe collectors will enjoy the increase in value. And I find it ironic that Hamilton campaigned to kill the national central bank and lobbied against paper currency as concentrating too much power in hands of bankers. And he's being removed and replaced.

Now for the woman who is going to be commemorated,
if the bills are going to be friendly to the blind/visually impaired
why not honor Helen Keller? She made more of a statement
about free speech and press, going from being cut off from the world
to being a worldwide lecturer and author promoting social change,
including leading the way for inclusion and accommodation in education.
She was the first deaf/blind person to receive a formal education and degree
at a time this was not even considered at all. What a statement about education.

Who would you vote for to replace Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill?

 

[Mac1958]

Katy Perry

 

[Pete7469]

I think this woman would transcend partisan politics and actually deserves recognition.

Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Clara, as she wished to be called, is one of the most honored women in American history. She began teaching school at a time when most teachers were men and she was among the first women to gain employment in the federal government. Barton risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the Civil War. At age 60, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for the next 23 years. Her understanding of the needs of people in distress and the ways in which she could provide help to them guided her throughout her life.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Alexander Hamilton to Share Image on 10 Bill With a Woman - Yahoo Finance

Though I generally resist changing the historic traditional design, maybe collectors will enjoy the increase in value. And I find it ironic that Hamilton campaigned to kill the national central bank and lobbied against paper currency as concentrating too much power in hands of bankers. And he's being removed and replaced.

Now for the woman who is going to be commemorated,
if the bills are going to be friendly to the blind/visually impaired
why not honor Helen Keller? She made more of a statement
about free speech and press, going from being cut off from the world
to being a worldwide lecturer and author promoting social change,
including leading the way for inclusion and accommodation in education.
She was the first deaf/blind person to receive a formal education and degree
at a time this was not even considered at all. What a statement about education.

Who would you vote for to replace Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill?

Its not a replacement. THey will share the bill


Personally I think they should keep Hamilton on the $10, boot Jackson off the $20, and replace him with MLK and Rosa Parks side by side. We kill so many birds with one stone that way.

 

[BlindBoo]

Sally Hemmings.

 

[Pete7469]

Sally Hemmings.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Rachel Dolezal.

She's white, she's black.
She screws men, she screws women.
She's a man for all seasons.

 

[BlindBoo]

Sally Hemmings.

 

[emilynghiem]

Sally Hemmings.

Sally Hemmings.

Wait, wouldn't she be paired with Jefferson?
There's no telling how many women to add to his list!

 

[PoliticalChic]

“Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally, you'll hit the Bull's Eye of Success.”
—Annie Oakley

 

[PoliticalChic]

Sally Hemmings.

Sally Hemmings.

Wait, wouldn't she be paired with Jefferson?
There's no telling how many women to add to his list!

Did you know that there is absolutely zero proof that Thomas Jefferson fathered any children with Sally Hemings?

It's one of those myths that Liberals advance to slander the Founders.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Alexander Hamilton to Share Image on 10 Bill With a Woman - Yahoo Finance

Though I generally resist changing the historic traditional design, maybe collectors will enjoy the increase in value. And I find it ironic that Hamilton campaigned to kill the national central bank and lobbied against paper currency as concentrating too much power in hands of bankers. And he's being removed and replaced.

Now for the woman who is going to be commemorated,
if the bills are going to be friendly to the blind/visually impaired
why not honor Helen Keller? She made more of a statement
about free speech and press, going from being cut off from the world
to being a worldwide lecturer and author promoting social change,
including leading the way for inclusion and accommodation in education.
She was the first deaf/blind person to receive a formal education and degree
at a time this was not even considered at all. What a statement about education.

Who would you vote for to replace Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill?

"While Misses Parks and Mankiller are no doubt estimable and important characters, it is at least arguable whether they are in a league with Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sarah Jay, or Dolley Madison—and, as a mere matter of historical fact, none of those extraordinarily talented women founded our nation or framed the constitutional system that, however battered, has survived for more than two and a quarter centuries. So we honor Hamilton on our banknote for the inestimable value and worth of his contribution to our own freedom and prosperity.

The change Secretary Lew proposes is, he says, “symbolic,” but “symbols are important.” Indeed they are. So he would do well not to meddle with symbols of value and worth—the nation’s currency—in a way that suggests that value and worth can change with the shifting currents of politically correct fashion."
Currency Devaluation by Myron Magnet City Journal June 18 2015

 

[Kondor3]

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The woman whose novel(s) did more to stir-up Anti-Slavery sentiment in the North than a thousand Underground Railway operators.

The woman whom - in 1862, upon meeting her, President LIncoln credited, with strengthening Northern resolve, to fight a war, to end Slavery.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Judge Judy?

 

[Blackrook]

Susan B. Anthony. No one else is even a contender.

 

[Kondor3]

Susan B. Anthony. No one else is even a contender.

Nonsense... there are many worthies to be vetted.

 

[pwjohn]

I vote Marylin Monroe on the twenty.

 

[jwoodie]

The idea of replacing Hamilton with someone else merely because of her gender is idiotic. When will the pandering end?

 

[Kondor3]

I vote Marylin Monroe on the twenty.

Can't we slip Anne Hathaway in there someplace?

 

[Stan Fan]

I think this woman would transcend partisan politics and actually deserves recognition.

Clarissa Harlowe Barton, Clara, as she wished to be called, is one of the most honored women in American history. She began teaching school at a time when most teachers were men and she was among the first women to gain employment in the federal government. Barton risked her life to bring supplies and support to soldiers in the field during the Civil War. At age 60, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881 and led it for the next 23 years. Her understanding of the needs of people in distress and the ways in which she could provide help to them guided her throughout her life.

Clara Barton certainly is a deserving candidate for inclusion on American money, so is Helen Keller. Not in favor of them knocking Andrew Jackson, one of America's greatest war heroes, the first of our Western President's, and the co-founder of the Democratic Party, although one wouldn't recognize Jackson's or Jefferson's ideas for that party today. However, they would be a real odd-couple, Hamilton and Barton for many reasons.

Hamilton was a West Indies born orphan and bastard, who did distinguish himself as one of George Washington's more able officers in the Revolutionary War. He was for the National Bank - and had a bad political reputation during the height of his political career, of challenging his contemporaries to duels, which he ultimately backed out of after negotiation. That was before he insulted the man elected Third President of the United States, Aaron Burr, who decided to accept the people's decision, and let Thomas Jefferson have the post. Burr and Hamilton were together, two of Washington's better officers in the war, but political enemies. Hamilton allegedly accused Burr of incest with his beloved daughter, Theodosia, who drowned at sea, and Burr wouldn't let Hamilton off the hook with negotiation and an apology.

Since dueling was illegal in New York, the two met on the heights of Weehauken, New Jersey, where Burr shot Hamilton in the duel, thus elevating Hamilton to political and popularity heights he never deserved, and destroying Burr's political career. Burr's alleged comments after the duel, and later in life (believed he lived on to form Tammany Hall in New York City, and died at age 86, with rumors he was the father of later President Martin Van Buren), were "At the most critical moment of his life, Hamilton's hand shook, mine never does." Hamilton died from the wound of the duel days later. His portrait on American currency, in view of his reputation, isn't deserved. Also, Hamilton is Colonial Period, Barton is Civil War period. Why not Pocohantas?....................