Who the f’ is that?
Meghan Markle and Harry would be better.
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'd better be trans, genderfluid, or genderqueer...or it's racist.
Will all the white guys be removed from our paper currency before gov. switches to all-digital fiat?
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Memorializing it in fiat currency is but to formalize the decline in rational thinking and make the pandering official.
People only look at the Number not the Face ,LOL
This month the Treasury released a coin celebrating Native American Ballet Dancers.
Nothing from those idiots in DC surprises me.
I vote for James Brown - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" and "Living in America". He's an all American of color.
The year was 1955, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Celia Cruz, 29, was a star on the stage and airwaves with Cuba's celebrated Sonora Matancera band. And, at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, she was banned from visiting the United States as a suspected communist.She gets my seal of approval.In fact, the singer known affectionately as Celia to generations of Cuban exiles was at least twice refused an artist's visa to visit America in the 1950s, according to a recently declassified U.S. document that described her as a "well-known communist singer and stage star.''
It was an era before Fidel Castro was in power, a time when McCarthyism and the Red scare bred a Hollywood blacklist. The U.S. Congress was consumed by communism, and federal agents were hunting communists, real and imagined, in government and show business.
The Herald discovered the previously unknown chapter of Cruz's life, the nearly decadelong struggle to clear her name, after receiving her once-classified FBI file through the Freedom of Information Act.
Her biographies do not mention the episode, and the people tending to her estate, including her husband of 41 years, said she never spoke of it.
''She never told me about that. She never talked about politics,'' said her widower Pedro Knight. The alleged activities predate their relationship, to a time in her teens and 20s.
''It would've been a hard thing because, especially afterward, she was identified so much as a symbol of anti-Castroism,'' said Alejandro de la Fuente, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in race relations in Cuba.
Back then, ''it was not unusual at all for artists and intellectuals to have some sort of contact with the Communist Party,'' he said. "It was a progressive, liberal force at the time. There was nothing to be ashamed of at the time. That changed in the late 1940s, after the end of World War II.''
At her death a year ago, Cruz, 77, was an anti-communist icon of the Cuban-American exile community.
Does she like breakfast tacos?
Putting a foreign low life on American coins isn't helpful. They are on a Jihad against George Washington.
Once our coins represented ideals, like Liberty, or Freedom as in the American indian and buffalo.
I suggest we take Roosevelt off the dime and replace him with Cubans.