American Open Currency Standard was Chair of the Committee. American Open Currency Standard American Open Currency Standard (AOCS) is a non-profit organization opposed to fiat money and wishing to expedite the use of metal as money. In accordance with its mission, AOCS grants approval to new currencies, helps new currency issuers to establish brand identity, and encourages merchants to accept AOCS-approved currencies. AOCS was started in 2007 by Robert Gray, who was formerly a Regional Currency Office for Liberty Dollar and is currently the Executive Director of AOCS. Robert Gray testified before the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and
Sambo (racial term) Sambo (racial term) Sambo is a term for a person with African heritage and, in some countries, also mixed with Native American heritage (see "zambo"). Formerly, it had the technical meaning of a person having a mixture of black and white ancestry, more black than white—contrast with mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc. in modern US English and British English. The word "sambo" came into the English language from the Latin American Spanish word "zambo", the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of mixed African and Native American descent. This in turn may have come from one of three African