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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Why does that picture of her look so much like a young Benito Juarez?
There should be a gun included with Harriet's portrait, just to emphasize the 2nd Amendment.
Harriet Tubman was a great American and a genuine heroine of freedom. If you don’t want to replace Jackson, fine, but there’s no need to dishonestly defame a great American.
Actually, I support putting Tubman, an abolitionist, pro-life, Republican on the twenty as a replacement for Jackson, a slave-owning, murderous, arrogant, Democrat.
If they're going to take Jackson off the $20, they ought to replace him with somebody of equal or greater historical significance. An unrepresented Founding Father like Madison or Adams would have been fine. Significant military commanders like Douglas MacArthur or George Patton would make sense. Major figures in science and technology like Thomas Edison...industrialists like Henry Ford...etc. etc...
The bottom line is that you and I could think of about 1000 Americans who are of greater historical significance than Harriet Tubman, whose achievement basically amounted to helping liberate some of her friends and family members from slavery. Nothing wrong with that, but if it weren't for political correctness, Tubman would barely register as a historical footnote.
We can still hope that this apotheosis of PC lunacy won’t happen.
Bullshit. Jackson played a major role in annexing Florida as a part of the U.S. and in defeating the British in the war of 1812. His policies were copied by James K. Polk which got us the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest. Both Jackson and Polk were great Presidents and you Sir know nothing about history.
Yes, because obviously helping free a handful of slaves (mostly her own family members) is obviously so much more important than leading America to a decisive victory during the War of 1812 or adding the state of Florida to the union. Obama and Jack Lew would be proud of you.
US paper currency is 75% cotton.
Oh, the irony for students of US history.
Symptoms of this disease include increasing GOP support for amnesty and open borders, GOPers siding with #BlackLivesMatter thugs in tearing down memorials to Confederate soldiers and commanders, and in this case, GOPers who want to replace an American war hero with a token black female.
As a president, Jackson should not be replaced. It should never have been even discussed. What losers we have representing us.....make that not representing us!
I’ll do it!
This is part and parcel of the Left's agenda of dishonoring "dead white males" and replacing them with "minority" and/or feminist icons. They go after the easy targets first: Confederates, Andrew Jackson, knowing that they can sell this part of the agenda not only to liberals but to establishment Republicans. Their long term goal is to erase US history and western culture and to replace it with multiculturalist ideology and its pseudo-heroes.
What has been happening to our culture since BO was catapulted into the oval orifice is simply stupefying.
We know who you’ll vote for this year.
So when Obama decides to replace the "slave owning" George Washington on the $1 with some token black, chicano, feminist, or homosexual icon, I'm sure he can count on your support.
Nice foot-shootin'. PICK YOUR BATTLES, A-HOLES!
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