DON'T YOU THINK ITS ABOUT TIME WE HAVE MARTIN LUTHER ON U.S. CURRENCY???WE CATER To EVERY WHITE MAN WHO WAS

Question

PRESIDENT!!!

WELL,ITS ABOUT TIME YOU PUT A BLACK MAN ON A BILL!!!

FORGET WASHINGTON!!!!

FORGET HAMILTON!!!

FORGET LINCLON!!!

THEY DID NOTHING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DID!!!

THIS SHOWS HOW RACIST YOUR GOV. IS!!!

ALL THE PEOPLE ON THE BILLS NOW ARE FROM A PERIOD IN TIME WHEN SLAVERY RULED!!!

THIS SALT JUST KEEPS A IRRITATING MY SKIN!!!

I DEMAND EQUALITY!!!

WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE READ!!!
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ON A US BILL!!!

Answer 1

They honour presidents on US currency. Can you name one black president???? It may happen in the future, but right now, only PAST presidents are being honoured.

Answer 2

~One wonders where we would be (black, white or other) today if Washington had chosen to be a king.

Hamilton was not a president. Neither was Franklin. Nor were all but a select few of their contemporaries. However, without the lot of them, there would be no US currency for you to complain of as there would be no US. They are not recognized by a national holiday. Neither are the Keneddy's although rumor has it that they were somewhat involved in civil rights issues and they were martyred too. (Jack did make it onto a coin, so I guess he's an inappropriate example.)

Without Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. may well have grown up picking cotton in Mississippi. But for Lyndon Johnson and his "Great Society" program, many of the advances in civil rights credited to MLK would have taken years, if not decades, more to be implimented. (Given that Johnson was succeeded by Nixon, it is entirely possible that many of said reforms would have never happened.) LBJ didn't make it onto the currency either.

McKinley and Wilson served well after the Reconstruction Congress abolished slavery, but they did get on the money.

The folks you so detest made it possible for you to voice your opinion here, and for King to mount his soap box. You might consider that.

Surely you can come up with something better to be steamed about. In the meantime, use credit cards, debit cards and electronic banking so you don't have to see or touch the repulsive bills you so detest. At the same time, we can start working on changing the name of the capital to Eldridge Cleaver, District of Douglas or some such, and hope our red and yellow brothers and sisters don't get too upset.

Answer 3

Perhaps you need to become familiar with the "why" they are on the bills. Marting Luther accomplished much in his lifetime but, was not involved in the founding of the country nor the holding it together. This may change at some time but is pretty restrictive at the moment.

Your statement sure doesnt give Lincoln any squirming room.. he was involved in slavery in a much different way than you imply. Perhaps a little brush up on history would be advantagous.

Answer 4

First of all why are you yelling? Take your big thumb off the caps lock for a sec. Second who's Martin Luther (any relation to Lex?) Anyhow I think you answered you own question the men an U.S. currency are all Presidents unlike this Marty guy. They did good for all people not just one race. A wise man(Spock )once said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.. Stew on that for awhile

Answer 5

hey, i know in school you only know how to use caps in kindergarden but we can hear you if you use your inside voice on here. cmon sweetie, this is america, we are the land of the free, i know it's BS but we have many more freedoms now then in the days of slavery wether you be black (or do i need to say african american), asian, or some mix of races because your ancestors could have cared about racism, the point is the more you beat that drum the more people will learn to tune you out, racism isn't what it once was and blacks in this country aren't the ones on the sh*t list as targets of bigotry at this very moment, try being an american of middle eastern descent right now. i say go back to school, get some more education and put all of that pent up energy and passion into some other actual worthwile cause like feeding our hungry or finding a cure for some fatal disease.

Answer 6

Martin Luther King Jr. definitely fought for rights of fellow humans!! In a way that was not racial..he wanted peace, not war, and tried very hard to convey his beliefs of this!! What a True Hero he was. I am white, but still believe in everything this man stood for. Was very glad to see his b'day celebrated, and Yes it's time to go a step further, Yes everybody handles Money, Let his Image be there also!!!

Answer 7

Lighten up, Francis.

Every person depicted on our currency richly deserved the honor. Does Dr. King? Perhaps, but don't we have to come up with some new unit of currency just for that purpose?

Dr. King's birthday is a federal holiday. That's an honor that some of the most brilliant and important men in our history don't rate. Do we celebrate Jefferson's, Madison's, or either Roosevelt's birthdays? No, we don't.

Get the chip off your shoulder. Dr. King's legacy is honored in a hundred ways all over America. Not everyone gets his picture on some money.

Answer 8

I took the time to read the rest of your questions........you sound very unhappy, heck of a way to spend your life, time is your only gift you know, the only thing you ever get that doesn't cost you anything. Have a great life!

Currency is going to disappear some day. I rarely use currency now and my gaze ususally doesn't go any farther than the numbers on the corners. Maybe we can get Dr. King's pic on a debit card or something.

Answer 9

Lets see, we would need a new bill.
Hmmm, we do have a need to get rid of the penny coin.
Items that cost 98 cent, could be paid with a
98 M L K bill. There is a need, and the bill would
get alot of circulation.
On the bill there could be a drawing of King giving
his "I had a dream" speech. Wasn't that at the
Washington Monument? It could show, that, the water,
and the crowds of people standing there listening.
I LIKE THIS IDEA.

Answer 10

wow! you cover a lot of ground there----wanting Martin Luther on a bill at first but then switching and wanting Martin Luther King on the bill instead! make up your mind!

if it were Martin Luther King, we could have his picture on the front of the bill. on the back we could have a picture of him in bed with one of the women he used to bone while he was out on the road giving speeches to inflame his brothers about how bad whitey was treating them.

what? you say? Martin Luther King committed adultery? yeah, all the time. what a God fearing man of the cloth he was!

then, lessee, the other picture could be a transcript of some of the tapes the FBI made of him in the sack with these other women. It could go something like this:

Dr King: hey baby---give it up for the Doc--for freedom!
Woman: but Doc---i'm not sure................
Dr King: give it up, chile! I HAD A DREAM about GETTIN' INTO YO PANTS!

sounds like a weiner to me!

Answer 11

For someone who is soooo offended so much let me ask you a question. You are looking for all of this support to help you with all of the offense that you suffer through right? Ok, I'm a Christian, you want to talk about being offended!! I don't even know where to begin with all of the offensive things I deal with every day. How much support would I get from you to help HEAL MY OFFENDED HEART? Would you fight on my behalf? Would you stand with me to keep the 10 Commandments in school, to allow school prayer like we use to have, to allow symbols of the Lord on public property like it use to be, to stand for the values of God? To allow students to say JESUS in a speech at school. Where would you stand with me on these issues? Just wondering. As for having Martin Luther King Jr. on a U.S. Bill who would you have removed? I mean we have a designated day for Martin Luther King Jr. All to himself. Nobody else has that, not even a President.