American Liberty 225th Anniversary gold coin (US Mint).
Oh my, the mint has decided to be inclusive looking on some gold coins that most people won’t ever see. Well, I guess it’s the thought that counts, but that thought has brought out all the conservative anger. Messing with Lady Liberty, oh noes! Lady Liberty is not black, she’s white! I confess to never having seen the statue in person, but she’s always looked rather green to me.
The U.S. Mint is unveiling a commemorative $100 gold coin that depicts Liberty as a black woman — and conservatives are predictably freaking out.
The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin, which will be released April 6, shows the year of the mint’s founding, 1792, and the woman’s head in profile, reported the Associated Press.
The mint said the coins were intended to reflect “the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States,” and others in a series of 24-karat gold coins will feature designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Indian-Americans.
Not only were unthinking cons upset about it, but it was an excuse for them to spew bigotry.
DeplorableTony Armas @Tarmas55
@AP The discrimination of white people by the @obama administration continues
The discrimination of white people? I don’t think that means what you think it means. Nope.
Chad Groves @ChadGroves10
@AP doubt lady liberty talks at top volume in movie theatres
Been a long time since I’ve been in a movie theatre, but I’d rather put up with a person of colour who is a talker, than a short tempered white person who decides to open fire with a gun. Aren’t stereotypes fun?
WALLTOWN NEWS @DennisKeithRic2
@AP I’m surprised that it’s not a MUSLIM.
How do you know if the person on the coin isn’t a Muslim person? We haven’t reached the point where belief shows up in fluorescent ink on our skin, y’know.
David S Handler @davidradiowntp
@AP this administration doing everything to change history,including changing Lady Liberty from what the French sent us. Pathetic racism!
You mean the mint has made duplicate Lady of Liberty statues to reflect diversity, and will be switching them out at intervals? Wow!
Drg @drg9766
@AP i wouldnt pay a dime for it. This proves that the Obama’s are racist.
The grammar, painful it is. No, no, this doesn’t prove racism on the part of Barak and Michele Obama. It does heavily point to racism on your part, though.
William Moore @williamfytylga
@AP take a close look at the Statue of Liberty. Obviously lady liberty is a white European. This is ridiculous!
There have been a great many observations made about the Statue of Liberty over the years. This is a remarkably stupid one. Obviously Lady Liberty is a green French woman.
Via Raw Story.
Libertas was a Roman goddess.
Are Italians white?
Well yes they’re furious over the idea of a black woman being depicted positively and making comments that are blatantly racist, but they aren’t standing on a rooftop shouting ‘I hate black people solely and specifically because they’re black!’* so according to right-wingers and spineless left-wingers you shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that they’re racist.
*Anyone who would actually do this though is clearly just joking/satire/a poe/a troll and
…and you shouldn’t leap to the conclusion that they’re racist.
Damn fat fingers hitting ‘post comment’ on accident.
Chigau:
Some of them, with blond hair and blue eyes, no less.
Samantha Bee has started to document the terrible discrimination suffered by white people in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE8nQZPfYpY
Oops. Sorry for the imbed….
No problem!
Samihawkins, you showed up on my stats page, under the Search engine terms:
Uh ya, out of idle curiosity I looked up some older post I’d commented on to see if their’d been any more comments on it.
Because it was that or actually doing something productive at work. >_>
Oh, it was you! That’s a relief, because I thought perhaps some troll was up to no good. And work? What’s that? *starts whistling and walking away.*
Oh, the humanity! I am, of course, referring to the missed opportunity here: had the designers left off the ‘In God we trust’ they could have given conservatives a collective aneurysm. Or perhaps they’re just saving that until after healthcare is finally history -- any day now. When Trump’s done with the US they’ll spell ‘greatness’ with a c…
Things SJWs find objectionable:
Rape
Sexual assault
Racism
Ableism
Transphobia
Things macho alpha male dudebros are offended by:
Commemorative coins
Movie casting
Video game criticism
Saad #12
that Venn diagram is a bit boring
Those are perfectly rational objections and not racist at all! After all a fictional, metaphorical person representing a concept and inspired by a pagan goddess of course has to be white! The logic is impeccable!
Well, at least if you ignore what logic actually is and invent your own definition. Which racists do all the time.
“Obviously Lady Liberty is a green French woman.”
Well, not really, since the green is only due to corrosion. She’s made of copper, and was originally, er, copper-coloured. So she can be accurately depicted as any ethnicity with copper skin.
Also, I thought America didn’t care what the French thought because coward compromise cheese monkey blah blah arglebargle. Freedom fries! But now their artistic vision for a statue is sacrosanct?
Whirlwitch:
I know! That had me laughing and shaking my head. Cons, the wishy-washiest of them all.
Now I’m wondering if I could place an order for that beauty…
A face of great strength, no wonder the white racists hate it, ruins their narrative.
Yep, my first thought, too.
Also, I see shoulder-straps. If they want to go all-out with the French version, she has to be bare-breasted. But, again, it has been observed that consistency of any kind isn’t a strong point…