Schadenfreude, Y'all
our dollar is already devaluing. We don't need to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 and make it worse— alex J. Riley (@alexrileyiscool) April 20, 2016
Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 is about as helpful for racial equality as saying "My best friend's black!"— Jared Freid (@jtrain56) April 20, 2016
.@RealBenCarson: "I love Harriet Tubman. I love what she did. But we can find another way to honor her." @TeamCavuto pic.twitter.com/XrCRovuobx— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 20, 2016
I'm sorry--- but putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is racist. She was a great woman--but NEVER a President--Jackson was a great leader.— Kajun Cook (@Kajuncook519) April 20, 2016
Powerful column and counterpoint to today's news. RT Keep Harriet Tubman – and all women – off the $20 bill https://t.co/q07vdLouBL— Tara (@PromoTara) April 20, 2016
It's insulting to Harriet Tubman to put her on money because of her body parts, not because of her actions.— Neil Stevens (@presjpolk) April 20, 2016
Harriet Tubman being on any bill that's not a food stamp note is rather disingenuous— Whitey McPrivilege (@SheeitDawg) April 20, 2016
I don't wanna see Harriet Tubman gorilla face on my money.— cecil (@p0pson) April 20, 2016
@jurassicpork59 there are others who would've been a better choice and who have done more for this country than she pic.twitter.com/FwVWJvGokg— The CS Conservative (@CSConservativ) April 20, 2016
Personally, I hope the Tubman 20 looks like this:
posted by jurassicpork @ Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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7 Comments:
When you came out with your post about your favorite children's books, I thought about mine and Wanted Dead or Alive: the True Story of Harriet Tubman came to mind pretty quickly.
I first read the book in the fourth grade when I borrowed it from my school library on a whim. My teacher caught sight of it and offered to read it to the whole class. It was a hit and on our next trip to the library, my classmates borrowed all eight copies of the book. For once, I was a trendsetter.
I actually made contact with the author of the book, Ann McGovern, by e-mail over ten years ago. I asked if she could autograph my copy of the book and she agreed. Since she lived in New York, it would have been easy for me to hook up with her. However, I forgot to contact McGovern on my subsequent trips back to New York and now it's too late because she passed away last year.
OK racists: next currency portrait change: Jack Johnson on the $10 bill. Hamilton was great , but not a president. Johnson however could beat the shit out of any of these Twitter bigots, and he's been dead since 1945.
Dude, Hamilton was a psychopath and a tyrant-in-waiting. John Adams was correct in disbanding his army.
By great I meant his baking system innovations; yes he was a tyrant, but so were most of the Founding Fathers.
Oh, by the way, "Irving", starting days ago every one of your troll comments will be marked as spam unread just like Mr. Mooser, "Dave" Chadwick and several other under-the-rock-dwelling cunts such as you. So you might as well get over your growing obsession with me and just move on.
By the way, the noise being spouted on right wing websites that Tubman was a Republican and, hence, the Obama Administration is foolish to replace a Democratic president with a gun-owning Republican on the $20 bill, has to be taken with a grain of salt:
http://www.snopes.com/harriet-tubman-gun-republican/
While Tubman aligned with the Republicans on some key issues, the Republican Party of her time was very unlike the Republican Party of today.
I'd suppose that Tubman would be repulsed by both parties if she were alive today.
She'd be pepper-sprayed and beaten by the militarized cops stationed along the Underground Railroad.
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