Posted on 03/13/2023 12:32:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
They're pushing Harriet Tubman now because she's not a radical leftist and someone who is agreeable to on all sides. That's why they're pushing her on the $20, and you got stupid people on our side agreeing with this "Fine with me, Harriet Tubman hated Democrats, etc."
But make no mistake, other more radical blacks are going to be pushed for Sainthood.
I've got nothing against Tubman, she was a great American, but she doesn't belong on money or statutes.
This whole movement of oversized, deconstructed and crude representations of historical figures IMO is meant to further degrade and demoralize us beyond what mere modern and post-modern art have already accomplished. Also, presumably a convenient cover for few woke artists having the skill to render truly honoring representations of said figures.
MLKJ in Boston is one, but I think the Marilyn Monroe lifted skirt sculpture is even worse.
These people must be as dumb as the inanimate statues they want to replace. It never occurred to them that they can have both statues or monuments so that everyone is included but they are selfish greedy narcissistic bastards who only think of themselves and their equity issues. They are subhuman trash for thinking this way.
Pretty interesting since I highly doubt that Tubman ever lived in Newark, or the State of New Jersey. After the Civil War ended in 1865, she moved to Auburn, New York, and lived there the rest of her life. She’s buried in Auburn’s Fort Hill Cemetery. The Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. is an independent non-profit established by the A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn. They would have done better to take the money they spent on the monument, and donated it to the non-profit that runs her historic home site.
Tubman was also a Republican. I wonder if the stupid spooks in Newark, a Democrat strong hold in Democrat controlled Essex County are aware of that.
Hey, Newark is not the entirety of the state of NJ. Yeah it’s a dump but we’ve got everything from skiing to 127 miles of coast line and horse farms abound in southern NJ. Is the state Democrat controlled, yeah. But we’re not all liberals here.One of the biggest, if not the biggest Trump was held here in NJ.
What state are you from?
I love Harriet Tubman, a true American hero. So brave.
A shame to “pitch” her against Christopher Columbus. It is not respectful.
Sane people avoid going to Newark unless they have to use the train station or attend a Devils game. Three blocks away from Downtown in any direction and life becomes a cr@pshoot.
It is better than it was years ago but aside from a very few neighborhoods, it still is largely a dangerous dump of a city.
Ohio, and I took Basic Training at Ft. Dix.
Quite a few years back illustrations of her showed her carrying a rifle because handguns(which she actually carried) were BAD!
Dix is about thirty minutes southwest of me. In The Pine Barrens. Traveled through the Buckeye state twice in my life. Nice enough, I will admit. Didn’t impress me very much however.
The Devils don’t sell tickets well since they moved to No Man’s Land.
Besides the rail hub, the airport is the only other destination there.
There is a statue of George Floyd in a “wifebeater” T-shirt in front of Newark’s city hall.
The city should be boycotted/avoided (though most NJ residents already do that). In a few more years when it is a Hispanic city, it might be worth visiting.
The primary driver of Spain sponsoring Columbus was the fall of Constantinople decades earlier; Europe would have to deal with Ottoman middlemen for all trade with the East unless they could reach it from the opposite direction.
I don’t even count the airport LOL, on and off I-78 never need to head into town thankfully.
Newark is a real shame, it had a great history, I spent my early childhood four blocks over in Irvington and my parents had a coffee shop on Clinton before the riots.
It is a shame, but it ws inevitable when manufacturing left.
The airport is critical for NYC, not Newark itself (in fact, they were looking for a site for third international airport for NYC, and the closest they got was the former Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh NY - but it was too far).
Once these areas deemed their only economic future was as poverty hatcheries, the flight of wealth and talent was inevitable. The population would become one that found a statue of the criminal George Floyd in front of city hall acceptable; the Harriet Tubman statue just is to masquerade as Americans.
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