The fact that you seem more comfortable with a Soviet (even one who once managed to save the world from mutually assured destruction) being on American currency than a black woman speaks volumes about your attitudes towards race, at least assuming that you’re not just pathologically obsessed with playing Devil’s Advocate.
If we’re on Americans who saved more lives than anyone else, I’d nominate Norman Borlaug, the father of the green revolution, someone who created genetically modified crops that actually managed to save over a billion people from starvation. Thing is, besides a lot of knee-jerk opposition to GMOs, I’m certain that if you mentioned his name, at least 95% of people would immediately respond “who?” Probably not the optimal position for appearing on currency.
If we’re on Americans who saved more lives than anyone else, I’d nominate Norman Borlaug, the father of the green revolution, someone who created genetically modified crops that actually managed to save over a billion people from starvation. Thing is, besides a lot of knee-jerk opposition to GMOs, I’m certain that if you mentioned his name, at least 95% of people would immediately respond “who?” Probably not the optimal position for appearing on currency.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.