The online magazine Slate offered a novel proposal in the wake of the Treasury Department announcing Andrew Jackson’s departure from the face of the $20 dollar bill on Wednesday: let’s get President Barack Obama on a piece of currency.
The only question remaining is, according to Slate, “which white guy should Obama replace when we honor him on our currency?”
The piece’s writer Ben Mathis-Lilley answers that question with the third president and Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson.
After weighing the possibilities of removing John F. Kennedy and Ulysses Grant from their respective pieces of currency, Mathis-Lilley rules those two presidents “whose historic import is not quite as weighty.” The Slate writer believes it would be better to take off a slave owner, like Thomas Jefferson, than those two men.
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