Posted on 04/27/2016 5:56:25 PM PDT by massmike
And the MLK statue doesn’t belong in DC either. Move it to his hometown. It’s cra**** looking besides.
Harriet was a Gun-Toting, Christian, Republican Woman.
Jackson was a Democrat!
LOL.
Jackson made his name by killing indians in Florida and creating the trail of tears as President. I understand that he was a man of his time and a man of the people during his day. As a result, he’s been honored by being placed on the twenty.
Now it’s time to honor Harriet Tubman. She suffered much in her quest against slavery and I have no problem seeing her face on a twenty dollar bill. Not everything is an example of the PC police. It’s just time to honor the contributions of someone else who shaper American History..
We've now entered a period of our history where leftists have taken over and imposed their warped vision of U.S. history on the country will little opposition from our Republican "leaders." Expect to see Jesse Jackson's or Al Sharpton's ugly mugs on some currency in the coming decades.
Exactly
Probably wouldn’t be a USA without Old Hickory. He single handedly prevented South Carolina from seceding in the 1820s. At that point the country probably wouldn’t have stayed together. You would likely have bunch of little countries east of the Mississippi, the Southwest part of Mexico, and the Northwest part of Canada.
The facts are Jackson's imprint on the U.S. was huge....Tubman's was minimal. Many more famous Americans deserve being put on currency before Tubman. We can honor her without putting her on our currency. This was a leftist coup...nothing less.
I absolutely never heard of her. I absolutely do not want her on my currency. How about Ronald Reagan — How about a GREAT AMERICAN????
I admire and respect Tubman. But there is a better answer here. Jackson desperately warned us about central bankers. 20 dollars from his era is roughly the buying power of 500 today.
Put Tubman on the new 500 dollar bill. Use it to demonstrate precisely what Jackson warned us would happen.
And the fact that evidently “so many don’t know who she is” says something about the shape of our country.
I concur.
Sad, but True.
“As a headline in a Washington Post blog admits, “If you have no idea who Harriet Tubman is, you’re not alone.””
Who is “you”, Washington Post?
My guess is most Americans don’t know who Andrew Jackson is either.
Harriet Tubman belongs in the pantheon of great Americans.
When I initially heard this news about dumping Andrew Jackson from the US $10 bill, my knee-jerk reaction was to be against it. I mean, who wants to see anyone other than Jackson on a US Twenty, right?
But I have no problem per se with a woman being on a piece of US currency, and subsequently, in reviewing Harriet Tubman's biographical sketch, I see that she's just the kind of freedom-loving, staunch individualist American Hero that belongs on our currency. She was also a Republican and an icon of the reason that Americans v alue their Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
IMHO, Tubman is deserving of this honor, and, therefore, just because she happened to be Black doesn't mean that the move necessarily was an act of political correctness. God forbid!
So I don't really see this move as PC or problematic; I see it as deserved recognition of someone who has been overlooked.
On top of that, Andrew Jackson had a good run, and some of his character weaknesses are rather problematic when subjected to close scrutiny. I guess you could say, at the very least, that he's "out of vogue" right now, and during such eras, it's not unusual to find one's image disappearing from national currency notes. I'm sure that in the future Andrew Jackson will popup again somewhere.
Regardless of anything else, however, I'm sure that Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson would both be saying "Vote Trump", and they'd both be telling Ted Cruz that it'd be best for both the party and the country if he suspended his upended Presidential campaign...
Vote Trump
First one of those I get, I’m gonna burn.
Precisely.
Aren't tokens a form of racism...according to the BLM Handbook of Hurt Feelings and Everyday Pissedoffedness Definitions?
You must have slept through your elementary school years.
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