Posted on 03/07/2015 6:55:03 AM PST by rktman
There’s a group called Women on 20s that wants Andrew Jackson ousted from the $20 bill and replaced with a woman. I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about Andrew Jackson or, for that matter, about whose face is on my money. The group offers 15 suggestions and at least one of them - Underground Railroad operator Sojourner Truth - would be an inspired choice.
But then there’s Margaret Sanger.
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I say Sanger should be the woman on the $20 bill. She represents the hypocrisy of Progressivism better than any other single human. Satan is the best representative of their hypocrisy, but he’s male so he’s not on the list.
Barbara Bush is already on the 1 dollar bill, what more do these groups want?
They mostly wanted to eliminate blacks.
I’d vote for Diana Ross
LOL! I don’t care who ya are. That there’s funny. Thanks GraceG
We should return to the time when our money did not men or women who lived and breathed.
The image on our money used to be a female, the image of “Liberty”. She represented a concept and the essential principle on which our nation was founded.
We had beautiful coinage when “liberty” was the symbol. Today our money is sterile and lifeless even though it depicts the images of men long dead. No matter how important they were as figures in our history, the honoring of them on coins and currency dishonors the principle that “all men are created equal”.
Let us return to honoring the the eternal concept of liberty, which should unite us, instead of mortal beings who may be politically polarizing. No doubt if we add a female to the $20 bill there will be demands for a black, hispanic, gay, Asian, and who knows what bill.
As an aside, every coin honoring a real women, from Sacajawea to Susan B. Anthony, has been rejected by the public and as a result are rarely seen in circulation.
Our money should unite us, not divide us or be used for political statements. Return to the image of liberty. She is a female we should all love and cherish.
Shhhhhh. It’s working based on the abortion rates among black women. Guess it never dawned on them that’s the “hole” idea for abortion on demand. DOH!
Hmmm. How about ar AR-15 on the $20?
The Rev. Al for the $3.00 bill.
People have sort of romanticized Andrew Jackson, as sort of “outlaw” kind of icons of American History, but he was in fact one of the first and most adamant adherents of Indian removal, either by genocide or by death marches to locations distant from the original habitat of a number of different tribes.
The “Five Civilized Tribes”, made up of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, Seminole, and original Cherokee Nations, had been established as autonomous nations in the southeastern United States. The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands, including that of the “Five Civilized Tribes”.
Every one of these tribes and many of the other “uncivilized” tribes, have their tales of “Trail of tears” as they were forced westward into Oklahoma, a barren and vacant land with few of the resources to which the tribes had been accustomed to using. There was a massive die-back in all segments of this transported horde. If there is one white man that all American Indians should despise, it is Andrew Jackson, who set the measure of how the tribal people of the United States were to be treated for many years.
The Seminoles fled to the Everglades of Florida, and fought a resistance to the United States government for years, and I believe there has never been a peace treaty signed between the US and the Seminoles.
So if a man like Andrew Jackson could be honored on the face of the $20 bill, then it is not much of a stretch to put the “eugenist” Margaret Sanger on as the replacement, to commemorate the genocide that was perpetrated upon the descendants of the slave population of America.
I am not criticizing here, it is what it is, but why, when there are so many other prospective candidates to be considered to remark on our history, do the arbiters of taste choose just these people?
I think he is confusing Sojourner Truth with Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman is the famous black woman who ran the underground railroad, not Sojourner Truth.
It seems as if everything is some sort of political statement.
Even regarding putting someone new on the money.
In recent times, political statements were made to put FDR on the dime, JFK on the half dollar, Susan B. Anthony on a dollar coin, and Sacagawea on another dollar coin. Every single choice was political.
***westward into Oklahoma, a barren and vacant land with few of the resources to which the tribes had been accustomed to using.***
The Osages were not forced, they moved there voluntarily when they sold their lands in the Ozarks. They ended up owning the oil fields, gas fields, coal fields.
The Pawnee came voluntarily when the Sioux and Cheyenne slaughtered them as Massacre Canyon in Nebraska.
The 5 Civilized Tribes have done very well, and now Oklahoma is covered with Casinos pouring in the cash, and yes, they will take a $20 dollar bill. Just try and force them back to the East coast!
the biggest problem the Indians in Oklahoma had was when the Civil War split so many tribes.
Andrew Jackson was an ethnic cleanser. It’s why his land hungry political base loved him.
That is the problem, they were hard to carry coins. That you could barely tell the difference from a 25 cent piece in size. No one wants to carry around heavy coins.
I carry very little coins or bills. It goes on plastic which has the US Flag on it, and I pay for it at the end of the month time frame IN FULL. Builds points for cash back I can use on the bill or buy something I want from Amazon.
Out came an old lame Indian man in old pants, a ripped shirt, floppy hat and dirty boots who told us what horses to shoe.
I asked another man if that was the ranch's hired man.
“No, that is the ranch owner!” was the answer.
I like what the French do- their banknotes feature portraits of people who made a meaningful contribution to their nation- Marie Curie and Antoine de St.-Exupéry are the ones I recall from my visit there.
Lot of divorced men here would probably beg to differ with you on that.
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