Martin Luther King on the $50 bill?

[Drewcifer]

All of this talk of putting Reagan on the currency has brought back to life a pet idea of mine: MLK on the $50 bill. Grant's position on the $50 is most likely more tenuous than any other American leader on our currency. He won the Civil War as a general but then presided over one of the most corrupt eras as President. His administration saw millions of acres of the west given to connected "robber barons" by the government. Payoffs were usually involved.

King and his ideals have probably done more to create modern America than any President of the 20th century with the possible exception of LBJ but he was flawed by his Vietnam policy. King's "I have a dream" speach has become the foundation of what modern America strives to be. His rhetorical and ideological victory was so complete that his vision is endorsed by all the major players in the nation's politics today. His actions had a large role in ending apartied in the South which is what allowed it to join the first world. It is my opinion that he has done more to create modern America and reaffirm it's ideals than almost any 20th Century President and almost any American who was never a president. So should he be on our currency?

 

[kulade]

HA HA HA No.

 

[Drewcifer]

HA HA HA No.

Why? Could you go in depth a bit more?

 

[philippe]

nice idea i support it

 

[kulade]

He wasn't done anything truely noteable that has made a large impact on the US. He led our minorities to equallity, but it didn't advance our country in anyway. (I dont mean he did anythink bad, just not important enough.) I could understand if he was made into a bill it just there are far more important people to immortalize.

 

[Drewcifer]

He wasn't done anything truely noteable that has made a large impact on the US. He led our minorities to equallity, but it didn't advance our country in anyway. (I dont mean he did anythink bad, just not important enough.) I could understand if he was made into a bill it just there are far more important people to immortalize.

Maybe it differs based on where you are sitting. From here it looks like bringing non-whites into the center of American culture and society was the most important event of the century, it has utterly changed the part of society that I live in. Before him middle class American was mostly a whites only phenomenon, now I live in an area with a multi-racial middle class and race doesn't seem to matter as much. If you look at the demographics of the country that is the future and his vision is what has made that a workable proposition. White people are becomming just another ethnic group in this country. Before him that would be viewed as the apocolypse. Because of him it is not too big of a deal. In many ways the vision of MLK did more for us Euro-Americans than anybody else because it created the possibility of a future America where race was less important which therefore made white minority regions not be a problem for us honkeys. I guess I am comfortably living the effects of his legacy in that respect.

 

[kulade]

Maybe it differs based on where you are sitting. From here it looks like bringing non-whites into the center of American culture and society was the most important event of the century, it has utterly changed the part of society that I live in. Before him middle class American was mostly a whites only phenomenon, now I live in an area with a multi-racial middle class and race doesn't seem to matter as much. If you look at the demographics of the country that is the future and his vision is what has made that a workable proposition. White people are becomming just another ethnic group in this country. Before him that would be viewed as the apocolypse. Because of him it is not to big of a deal. In many ways the vision of MLK did more for us Euro-Americans than anybody else because it created the possibility of a future America where race was less important which therefore made white minority regions not be a problem for us honkeys. I guess I am comfortably living the effects of his legacy in that respect.

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I view growing minority as a potitial problem. Im not racist, but i sopport the white race, and feel uncofertable with minoritys that my become major. Allot more Democrats will be elected . And more and more white american culture will diminish. I think we should limit immigration more, because more different people cause more problems . Its just that the US has so many problems due to racsim, pc-ness and minorities.

But about MLK, i just think more importat people like Reagan, Roosevelt and Clinton should be on bills .

 

[Drewcifer]

I view growing minority as a potitial problem. Im not racist, but i sopport the white race, and feel uncofertable with minoritys that my become major. Allot more Democrats will be elected . And more and more white american culture will diminish. I think we should limit immigration more, because more different people cause more problems . Its just that the US has so many problems due to racsim, pc-ness and minorities.

But about MLK, i just think more importat people like Reagan, Roosevelt and Clinton should be on bills .

In my neighborhood Euro-Americans are about 25%. Blacks, Latinos, Southeast Asians, East Africans and American Indians add the other 75%. In my neighborhood you see kids of all backgrounds playing together. This is King's gift to our country. If we can pull that off as a nation we are all better off for it. It is not about being PC or about any particular ideology, most of the people on my block don't give a crap about that which is another of his gifts to our country. In my neighborhood kids just hang out together, shouldn't the whole country be like that? Most of them aren't liberals or conservatives, just the locals. It is about creating an AMERICAN identity that trancends race; in some parts of the country it is off in the distance and in others it is already here. Either way isn't it something to aim for? In some parts of the US it is already a fait accompli and the suggestion that it is otherwise is viewed with a suspicious eye. King built this America, it exists today though not in the whole country or even most of it. But race, politics and ideology are slowly transforming themselves and in some parts complexion is becomming an asterisk. How is this anything but good?

 

[zulu9812]

Putting Dr King on a dollar bill is a means of sanitising him and his message: making part of 'the establishment'. It is also an attempt to claim that the establishment have taken his message in board and are no longer racist, which clearly is not the case.

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

Im not racist, but i sopport the white race, and feel uncofertable with minoritys that my become major.

If this is not inflammatory then what is? Am I the only one who is thinking exactly what I am thinking?

Putting Dr King on a dollar bill is a means of sanitising him and his message: making part of 'the establishment'. It is also an attempt to claim that the establishment have taken his message in board and are no longer racist, which clearly is not the case.

Hear Hear Hear! I totally agree...