The Quest to Boot Old Hickory Off the $20 (As We All Know The Left Wing's Work Is Never Done)

The Atlantic ^ | April 17, 2015 | Adam Chandler

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This week, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire introduced the Women on the Twenty Act, legislation aimed at putting an American woman on the $20 bill. Shaheen's efforts nod to an initiative by Women on 20s, a group that is lobbying to change the $20 by 2020. That year Americans will mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. (The $20 is also overdue for a redesign to thwart counterfeiters.)

For Andrew Jackson, current face of the $20 bill, this is the latest assault on the paper perch he has occupied since 1928. Last June, my colleague Conor Friedersdorf argued that Martin Luther King, Jr., who is listed as the most-admired American of the 20th century, deserves the spot held by Jackson. He noted that while many young American children only have memory of life with a black president, "these same kids are still growing up in a country where the faces celebrated on the paper currency are all white." Friedersdorf continues:

I don't want to overstate the importance of that. There is a long list of suboptimal policies that are vastly more urgent to remedy. Still, the lack of diversity in this highly symbolic realm is objectionable, and improving matters would seem to be very easy.

[PapaBear3625]

Molly Pitcher

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A few years ago they stopped the circulation of any denomination over $100, supposedly to curtail ‘money laundering, and this includes the Chase $10,000 bill. Years ago in a Las Vegas casino window I saw a display of $1,000,000 in Chase $10,000 bills. Then it was impressive!

[agrarianlady]

Or perhaps:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Sampson

[ek_hornbeck]

I’ve always thought the current twenty-spot features Jason Robards, not Andrew Jackson

LOL. I'm not sure what political views Robards had, but at least the guy could do something well, i.e. act. In contrast, the feminist and racial agitators that liberals want to put on the $20 generally weren't good for anything, unless you count subversion and noise-making as skills.

[ek_hornbeck]

Part of this is the Left's standard attack on "dead white males" and its goal of erasing America's history and western culture in general.

But there's something even more insidious going on here as well. It's not enough to convince most people of politically correct ideology. What is required is a totalitarian system where every aspect of our lives is saturated with political correctness. If they have their way, we shouldn't even be allowed to handle currency (or anything else) until that currency has been stamped with approved ideological messages.