Anna May Wong – who landed her first role at 14 in 1919 and went on to star in TV, radio, theater and movies – is now the first Asian American to be featured on U.S. currency through a federal program honoring female trailblazers on coins.
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No issue if she earned it, not because she's there just because of race.
What happened to Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther king, Billie Holiday? Black people with significant contribution should be on the U.S. currency first, these race based mind games of the elite are shameless.. seems like they're trying to stir up hatred and jealousy towards Asians again.
Awesome 👏
What took so long!
💪🏾💪🏻Hats off to Asian community for looking out for their heritage. BLACKS I HOPE YOU PAYING ATTENTION. When the topic of Harriet Tubman was on the table it seemed to have so much backlash.
Well Biden this will be your last term! Hats off to the Asians at the same time a real sad day in America
There goes our money value!
This is the consolation prize to Asian-Americans for 2 years of being attacked by black people.
Yellow face wtf
No one cares
Now we need a Latino/Latina on the 100 bill ;D
Might as well, We're going to end up using Chinas currency in this country anyway. 🤷🏿♀️
I never heard of that woman. And it seems like America has sold it's soul for Chinese Yen .
In a hundred years I hope we don't put kim Kardashian on the nickel. Why would you put an actress on a countries currency? Good intentions here but very poor execution.
My father was a rather famous architect, friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, moved to California where he built beautiful large mansions for movie stars of his day. My father was a strong personality who really did a great deal in his life, knew fascinating people. My mother married him late in his life, and I was born when my Dad was really quite old. (I just finished renovating / restoring my Dad's final home that he designed and built) My mom would frequently share that my dad, when he lived in CA, had a long loving affair with Anna May Wong. Which I found interesting 'because', from what I learned, Ms Wong was never permitted to ever "kiss" on screen, because she was Asian. But my dad kissed her, which was very very cool.
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This is awesome
Ya definitely not being taken over by China 😉. Nothing to see here just an actress no one has herd of being put on USA currency. Defiantly not showing allegiance to china. I herd this was Hunters idea. LOL
All these comments said the same thing just worded differently bot comments.
An actress? That doesn't surprise me. Someone who hasn't dedicated their live to service of the country or ideals shouldn't be on our currency!
There are war heros of Asian decent that are far more deserving for their bravery and sacrifice than an actress!!!
What's next? Are we going to use Chinese Yuan?
It’s better to feature an Asian physicist, inventor, human rights lawyer, or doctor.
I don’t think that actors should be on currency unless they served as president or were a founding father or at least served their country through military or some other service.
This idea of putting random people on currency for diversity sake is stupid. Surely there are more appropriate ways to celebrate actors than putting them on currency.
Hypocrites