Aw, come on! It makes perfect sense, if you put on your racist goggles. Meaning, what’s the least white thing from D.C. you can think of and yet is still something or somebody almost everybody can recognize?
Almost all the famous people, buildings and monuments are or are from white people. Once you throw all them out...because you sure as hell don’t want anything associated with whites representin’ da DC hood, there ain’t much left.
As the fella in the next post aptly put it, why not Marion Barry and his famous crackpipe with the phrase almost every adult American from that time well remembers, “The bitch set me up !” ?
Ah, but in all seriousness, if they’re determined to put a Black person on the coin from DC, why not Benjamin Banneker ?