"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
08/29/2018 at 12:44 • Filed to: None
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"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
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Yet again, Canada showed us how it’s done. While we’re too constipated to put a woman on the money, Canada put a black woman on a vertical, polymer bill.
It’s made out polymer, it’s awesomely vertical and it’s featuring Viola Desmond, a black Halifax businesswoman who was jailed, convicted, and fined for refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946.
Other countries are getting aboard on the vertical trend too.
Switzerland, Northern Ireland and Venezuela.
ttyymmnn
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:05 |
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God, American money is just so boring by comparison. I still have from Francs from my trip to France in the early 90s. The whole vertical idea is brilliant.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:05 |
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All of our current Canadian b
ills
are polymer
as well! :)
Spanfeller is a twat
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:06 |
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Mexico used to have a conmemorative 200 peso bill that went vertical too, I much prefer that orientaion!
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:12 |
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Vertical money would bug me like Cell phone vidoes shot in vertical , Save Landscape Mode!
MonkeePuzzle
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:15 |
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Nom De Plume
> MonkeePuzzle
08/29/2018 at 13:18 |
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Urban Dictionary informs me the politically incorrect term is “Blurple”. Way to be an insensitive asshole Canada.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:25 |
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I’ve actually visited her grave. Kinda a neat thing to experience .
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
08/29/2018 at 13:30 |
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Screw vertical money.
LGtBT
> El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
02/13/2019 at 08:15 |
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Vi
ola Desmond was neither jailed nor arrested for refu
sing to leave a non-white area. There was no such area and it would have been illegal at the time, as per comments of the judge.
There was no such law to charge her with and even the wikipedia article makes it clear she wasn’t prosecuted under a racially discriminatory law.
The Wikipedia article, the newspapers and her sister all tell the story differently. But they all agree that she bought a ticket for the upper seats which were 21 cents, then took a floor seat which cost 42 cents, whereupon she was asked to leave and refused.
Upon arrival of the police, after resisting removal they decided to give her a slap on the wrist just like with parking and speeding tickets today. A $20 fine for not paying the tax which was the price difference.
There isn’t anything to
prove a discrimination case besides the story
of Desmond and her NAACP lawyers.
Coincidentally, I’m sure, their local offices were bought with the wining money from the case.