And maybe another. A “gender equity activist.”
Posted on 02/08/2023 11:05:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz, will make history by becoming the first Afro-Latina on U.S. currency.
Cruz’s portrait will be featured on a new quarter set to be released in 2024, the U.S. Mint announced earlier this month.
Born in Havana in 1925, the “La Vida es un Carnaval” singer was one of the most popular artists of the 20th century and received numerous accolades for her work, including five Grammy awards and a National Medal of Arts.
Cruz is one of five people being honored by the U.S Mint as part of its American Women Quarters Program, which launched in 2022 and will continue until 2025. The other four women honored are Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color to serve in Congress; Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon and women’s rights activist; Pauli Murray, Civil Rights activist and lawyer; and Zitkala-Ša, a Native American rights and voting activist from the Yankton Sioux Nation.
“All of the women being honored have lived remarkable and multi-faceted lives, and have made a significant impact on our Nation in their own unique way,” said Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson in a statement.
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Who the f’ is that?
Meghan Markle and Harry would be better.
Why not Ron Jeremy
We’re checking them boxes. One made-up group after another.
Yeah... what about Carmen Miranda? Why is she not first?
Which one is a lesbian?
Carmen Miranda was more important culturally. Bug Bunny impersonated her.
They are all Woke. Go figure. Even the coins are now weaponized.
Azúcar!
Checkbox ticking,
quota-oriented,
identity politics,
craven and crass and cynical pandering,
labored patronizing,
phoney,
Pasture pucks.
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So she's good to go.
Celia Cruz was, and still is, the most popular female Hispanic artist ever. Among Hispanics, that is. She was extremely talented and a staunch anti-Communist. Everybody loves her. Hispanics, that is.
If a modern Hispanic woman deserves any recognition, Celia Cruz is that person. Black or not. We don’t see her as a black performer. She’s just the great Celia Cruz.
“...singer was one of the most popular artists of the 20th century...”
She was certainly not.
She'd better be trans, genderfluid, or genderqueer...or it's racist.
Foreign born singer no-one has ever heard of is the best they could come up with? Most famous song is not even performed in English? Wow. How about an Einstein coin? Or Edison? Does creation of a new field in physics or inventing the light bulb pale in comparison to a sing-song girl? I know its impossible bc those titans were White and had johnsons, but a foreign born sing-song girl? Is that the achievement to be memorialized by a country’s money? Gives the impression that the gov has to scrape the bottom of the barrel because there’s simply no-one else sufficiently worthy and of the right skin color.
Not that new coinage is a bad idea. My belief is the Sacajawea coin was a flop bc at the time of introduction a dollar could actually buy something and I suppose people weren’t comfortable with more easily misplaced coins. I actually think it would be useful now that today’s dollar is yesterday’s quarter.
And maybe another. A “gender equity activist.”
That was before Castro, she never supported Castro, she is an icon in the Cuban community in Miami, and if she was a Communist, that certainly would not have been the case.
Will all the white guys be removed from our paper currency before gov. switches to all-digital fiat?
Agreed.
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