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<p>[QUOTE="Small Size, post: 2400997, member: 77924"]We have six current notes. All of them depict white males. Four of them owned people. Every one of them was a very important figure in the nation's history. But history continued long after the last of them died in 1885.</p><p>Not only did history move on, so did we. We are now a 21st Century multi-cultural nation, and we should have currency that not only reflects who we were, but also who we are now. A woman on an important note, like the $20 or $100, is a good step toward that goal. Ben Franklin was a man whose life story gives few causes for offense even today. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner who defied a Supreme Court order not to deport thousands of Native Americans from their long-established homes to a desolate prairie now known as Oklahoma, and along a route well remembered as the Trail of Tears. That makes him the obvious choice for replacement.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Small Size, post: 2400997, member: 77924"]We have six current notes. All of them depict white males. Four of them owned people. Every one of them was a very important figure in the nation's history. But history continued long after the last of them died in 1885. Not only did history move on, so did we. We are now a 21st Century multi-cultural nation, and we should have currency that not only reflects who we were, but also who we are now. A woman on an important note, like the $20 or $100, is a good step toward that goal. Ben Franklin was a man whose life story gives few causes for offense even today. Andrew Jackson was a slave owner who defied a Supreme Court order not to deport thousands of Native Americans from their long-established homes to a desolate prairie now known as Oklahoma, and along a route well remembered as the Trail of Tears. That makes him the obvious choice for replacement.[/QUOTE]
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