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Do we have any Cherokee on US currency which actually was the point?![]()
Okay, it's a coin. It's a commemorative coin from Romania.
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US $20 bill
So, what on Earth could be hypocritical about the US $20 bill and some coin from Romania?
Well....
US knocks Romania for ‘anti-Semitic’ coin
The US government decided to criticize the Romanian government for putting a former governor of the Romanian bank on a coin, and he happened to be a bit of an anti-Semite. But he's not the only person on that side of the coin, there are three of them.
But at the same time as this, the US govt is pumping out $20 bills (and produced 1.5 billion of them in 2012) which have a Mr Andrew Jackson on the front. Not with two other people, but all on his ownsome.
And he's not exactly Mr Human Rights 1830, now is he?
I mean, the Trail of Tears was his... and there was a lot more.
Why stop the "hypocrisy" there? Let us continue where the trail of tears leaves off:
10% of those that made that trip were slaves owned by the Indians. Indians starved to death rather than let them go. Fast forward to today, the Cherokee Nation has stripped the descendants of the slaves, owned by the Cherokee, of their Indian status. Their reasoning is, being a slave of an Indian does not make you an Indian. Which is actually a valid point genetically.
Then the gov. steps in and insists that the Indians uphold the treaty the Indians signed in 1866 granting the slaves equal rights. The irony.
There is enough hypocrisy to go around. Let's not discriminate....