Posted on 09/30/2016 11:50:59 AM PDT by GilGil
Harriet Tubman and President Andrew Jackson lived on opposite sides of the American experience.
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This is unprecedented - not because of gender or “race” - because all our paper money has featured presidents or other government officials.
Neither Edison, Ford, Carnegie, Flagler, Vanderbilt, Sears, Gates, or any other prominent person who was not a president or statesmen has on our paper money.
“Off topic but will it boost the self esteem of black youth, to see Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill???”
No. Ghetto trash will still prefer the white boy Benjamin on $100 bills over twenty-dollar Tubman bills. Guaranteed.
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