President Obama (White House photo)
A left-leaning news publication has taken the announced replacement of Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman from the $20 bill and run with it, now asking why the slave-holding Thomas Jefferson’s face graces the nickel and saying it ought to be replaced – with President Obama’s.
Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate said in a piece that appeared after Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced the new faces of American currency that Obama deserved to be on a bill or coin as well.
But still to decide, Slate postulated: “Which white guy should Obama replace when we honor him on our currency?”
Obviously, a slave owner, Mathis-Lilley said.
“Thomas Jefferson, who – in addition to having owned slaves and held demeaning views about racial ‘inferiority’ – is already on two items of currency,” he wrote. “To respect the positive elements of Jefferson’s legacy, let’s leave him on the $2, gibing the nickel over to the first black president.”
He also argued for replacing George Washington on the quarter with Hillary Clinton, if she wins the presidency.
Mathis-Lilley wrote: “While we’re at it, how about we make a symbolic statement about George Washington’s own mixed legacy by leaving him on the dollar but reserving the quarter for the first female president, Hillary Clinton?”
And why Obama?
“Obama is the United States’ most admirable, accomplished modern president,” he wrote, “[and that’s] a widely acknowledged fact.”
Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence, has been portrayed on the nickel since 1938. America’s first president, Washington, has been the face of the quarter since 1932.
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