Posted on 06/24/2016 4:47:54 AM PDT by HomerBohn
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve King introduced an amendment in Congress that would have prevented Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist and supporter of women's suffrage, from replacing President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
However, the House Rules Committee agreed Tuesday night to deny floor consideration of proposal, which would have prevented the Treasury Department from spending money to redesign paper currency or coins.
The Iowan Republican's amendment, which was first reported by the Huffington Post, would scrap the federal government's plans to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with a picture of Tubman, a black woman who was born in to slavery in 1822 and later escaped. She subsequently made repeated missions on the Underground Railroad to rescue black people from slavery. During the Civil War, she served as a Union Army scout and spy.
"It's not about Harriet Tubman, it's about keeping the picture on the $20," King said Tuesday night, according to Politico, pulling a $20 bill from his pocket and pointing at President Andrew Jackson. "Y'know? Why would you want to change that? I am a conservative, I like to keep what we have."
Politico quoted King as saying it is "racist" and "sexist" to say a woman or person of color should be added to currency.
"Here's what's really happening, this is liberal activism on the part of the president, that's trying to identify people by categories and he's divided us on the lines of groups. … This is a divisive proposal on the part of the president and mine's unifying. It says just don't change anything."
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I think Tubman is preferable to Jackson any day of the week including Sunday.
So fr as I know, like Barack Obama, she was permitted to break the law at will. She remained in protected abolitionist territory safe from arrest
I see his point, but frankly we have MUCH bigger fish to fry.
I’d rather he spend his time trying to defund Obamacare or the EPA.
By breaking the law, I am safe in assuming you mean, free’d the slaves utilizing the underground railroad? Which of the time, was illegal?
I’m sure you see where I am going with this. If you believe she was a felon due to her freeing slaves and you feel she is an evil person for that, it says a lot about your mindset.
If you read a little about history, you will find many heroes that did extraordinary things that were against laws or rules. They did this for what is right and just. Our Revolutionary War that created our country was due to a bunch of people bucking the British system. Tossed out their laws, made our own laws, and started a war. Turns out, it was a pretty good idea.
It is not a “jihad” against Jackson. The hero of New Orleans was also a deeply flawed man. He picked and chose what laws to enforce, much like the current President.
Jackson (and his successor Van Buren) consciously abetted the theft of valuable farmland and natural resources (gold) from the Cherokee and other civilized tribes by the Georgian government. They wanted the land, it legally belonged to the Cherokee. They passed laws that enabled the theft and drafted the Army into evicting the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw off their land.
It was a form of oppression, but not deliberate genocide. Aside from the appalling conditions on the march to Oklahoma. Which the Army, tried to mitigate, with mixed success.
It also triggered the Seminole Wars which dragged on for years before the Government gave up and allowed the Seminole to remain in Florida.
Obama uses the EPA, Jackson used the Army, both resulted in the legalized theft of private property.
If I remember correctly, they’ve reserved the LGBT activism for a proposed 3 dollar bill. At least, that’s what I think I heard.....
I am truly surprised they haven’t already put the philandering MLK on a bill.
I agree. If Jackson is taken off the $20 then my wallet will be full of ones, fives and tens.
When these bills are issued we should all get rubber stamps that say "gun owner" and make sure every Tubman Twenty gets stamped beneath her portrait. It won't be long before Tubman Twenties are removed from circulation and a more PC candidate substituted.
Tubman does belong on the currency if the people running the government are criminals and terrorists.
Embrace the irony.
So.. Ryan has the balls to stop THIS, putting a female, bible swinging, gun toting Republican on a bill... but can’t seem to be able to stop any liberal anti-American bills from making it to the floor....
What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s disgusting
Worse yet many freepers are in full support in their once upon a time Glen Beck addled brainwashed version of American history
Mark my words
When we become a non white nation soon enough we will lose it ALL
There will never be a white image grace squat except as propaganda as the enemy of social justice
Not so. During the Civil War Tubman spied and scouted for the Union behind enemy lines. If a woman is to replace Jackson on the $20 bill, I'd prefer Adm. Grace Hopper. But Tubman would not be a bad choice either.
I would wholeheartedly agree with that.
How many of her bills placed end to end measure an electron travel in a nano second
She’s not as heroic as libs make her out to be. There’ll be stacks of $20’s wasting away in some federal bank next to those bags of Susan B. Anthony coins nobody wanted.
I don’t care that she was a gun-toting Republican. Her life story doesn’t hold a candle to Jackson and it reeks of liberalism. The Left chose her so there’ll be people who’ll react angrily to it.
Unfortunately, our government schools have made it impossible for the people who most need to know that message incapable of reading it.
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