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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On the $3 bill ?
No. To really poke us in the eye they'll put Fauci on one of the bills.
We’ll have the most politically correct money in the world!
Will all the white guys be removed from our paper currency before gov. switches to all-digital fiat?
You’ll have no digital money because they’ll steal it
James Brown was an American patriot. He gave support for Richard Nixon’s campaign to become President, and performed for troops in Vietnam. He also responded to anti-war protests at the time by recording patriotic songs like “America is My Home”. He is a far better person to adorn U.S. currency than many others.
Castro had a lot of people fooled before the Revolution, he never came out and said he was a Communist until he gained power, when the Soviets made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Pauli Murray, Civil Rights activist and lawyer
Is this punishment because we wouldn’t use the Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony dollar coins?
This is getting a bad as the Post Office.
What is next? Fat Elvis and Thin Elvis currency?
My bank deposit slips differentiate between “coins” and “currency.”
I have heard if Celia Cruz, and decided to look for an older video to show me her talents. I am very impressed. 1974 sound check https://youtu.be/mX53j-Wfpyg
I thought Gilberto was Samba.
Never heard of this person and she is on US currency?
I have always rejected that statement. The only way one can be a socialist is either to be ignorant or to be evil.
¡Azúcar!
I am Puerto Rican but, primarily, my favorite artists are The Eagles and my tastes revolve around their type of music. But anytime I hear that voice, Celia’s voice, it awakens my Hispanic soul. She’s truly the greatest in her field.
“Is this punishment because we wouldn’t use the Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony dollar coins?”
The mint produced nearly 900,000,000 S.B. Anthony dollars, which of course the public simply refused to use. So they are in storage which costs a lot every year. Melting them down for their scrap (8 1/2 ¢ per coin) would make sense, but then the mint would have to post a loss of 89 1/2 ¢ per coin and since so many are in storage—a sizable proportion of the entire production, that would add up to real money.
A few years ago Ecuador decided to adopt the U.S. dollar as its currency. They love the Sacagawea dollar because to them she looks just like a native Ecuadorian woman.
Next, the first Trans to come out featured on US coins. America, The Land of The Woke Money.
Figures.
They’re not gonna like what comes after the United Sataes. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Never heard of her. Why can’t we keep Americans on our coins?
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