Hola Chulas y Chulos! How’s the year been treating you thus far? Hope you haven’t been getting chanclazo after chanclazo. Speaking of chanclazos, my chancla and I have the following to hit ya with…
There’s a New Lady Liberty in Town and She’s Black and Beautiful
On Thursday, as part of their 225th anniversary, the United States Mint and Treasury unveiled an image of a $100 gold coin featuring Lady Liberty as a black woman wearing a crown of stars. This is the first time in like EVER that Lady Liberty has been depicted on American currency as anything other than white.
Feast your eyes on the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin:
Treasury & Mint officials unveiled the 2017 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin! https://t.co/HkfcPN5Enq #USMint225 @USTreasury pic.twitter.com/0ShGHPn5oF
— United States Mint (@usmint) January 12, 2017
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The coin will be released on April 6. What’s more, this is just the first in a series representing the multicultural and ethnic diversity of this country. According to a press release from the United States Mint:
The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin is the first in a series of 24-karat gold coins that will feature designs which depict an allegorical Liberty in a variety of contemporary forms-including designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans among others-to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States. These 24-karat gold coins will be issued biennially. A corresponding series of medals struck in .999 silver, with the same designs featured on the gold coins, will also be available.
I’ll tell you what, my chancla and I are going to start saving up our pennies because we want to collect every single one of these coins. Diversity is one of this country’s greatest resources and it’s about time we saw it represented on our currency because wealth is wealth is wealth.
But wait, did they mean Native-American or Indian-American?!
I do have one question for the U.S. Mint, though. In the press release where they stated that future designs will include “Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans,” did they mean Native-Americans rather than Indian-Americans? It’s fine if they are going to put someone on a future coin who is of Indian descent, but if what they meant to say was that someone of Native-American descent is going to be depicted as Lady Liberty, then they should realize that Indian-American and Native-American are not the same thing.
UPDATE: I asked the U.S. Mint if they meant Native-American instead of Indian-American.
.@usmint In press release "designs representing…and Indian-Americans" to come did you mean Native-Americans when saying Indian-Americans?
— Claudya Martinez (@ByClaudya) January 13, 2017
And they answered…
Yes, Native-Americans. We apologize for the error.
— United States Mint (@usmint) January 16, 2017
That’s it for this week’s The Flying Chancla Report. I love you mucho and remember, spread love, not chanclazos!
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