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Stamps these days: “Polar bears, lots of women and blacks no one has ever heard of”

Uh oh. Someone has a case of the privileged white male sads! Alan Fraser at the conservative website American Thinker wants to know why postage stamps these days feature “polar bears, lots of women and blacks no one has ever heard of.”

Since Fraser is apparently too lazy to google the ones he doesn’t know, I helped him out by adding some hyperlinks to the list he finds so objectionable:

“There’s Julia de Burgos (who?), Mother Teresa (an Albanian saint), Oscar Micheaux (a black guy I never heard of), Kate Smith, Katharine Hepburn, Love, Pansies in a Basket, the Year of the Rabbit ...

Uh oh. Someone has a case of the privileged white male sads! Alan Fraser at the conservative website American Thinker wants to know why postage stamps these days feature “polar bears, lots of women and ...