Posted on 04/27/2016 5:56:25 PM PDT by massmike
The Democratic Party is poised to change the name of its annual fundraisers from The Jefferson and Jackson Day Dinners to the Harriet Tubman and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince Day Dinners, where crow will be served to atone for the sins of slavery and misogyny and celebrate the triumph of racial- and gender-identity politics over reality.
Not really. But the $20 bill is about to get a pc makeover, with Harriet Tubman, an obscure figure in U.S. history (an escaped slave who aided the Underground Railroad), replacing the 7th president of the United States, a man who gave his name to an era – the Age of Jackson.
Due to popular demand (from the White House and the Democratic Party's core constituencies) other changes are in store for our currency, including feminist block parties on the backs of $5 and $10 bills. Can Margaret Sanger doing the Charleston with Rosie O'Donnell be far off?
The changes were announced with much fanfare last week by Treasury Secretary Jacob L. Lew, whose job I thought it was help the president to screw up the economy, not to rewrite history.
As a headline in a Washington Post blog admits, "If you have no idea who Harriet Tubman is, you're not alone."
Andrew Jackson's life is the stuff of legend. Born dirt poor to Irish immigrant parents (the first president of humble origins), he served in the Revolutionary Army at age 14. Taken prisoner, he took a saber-cut across the face when he refused to polish the boots of a British officer – a scar he carried for the rest of his life, which seared nationalism into his soul.
A self-educated, frontier lawyer and judge, he became a plantation owner and fought duels (including one with a man who'd publicly insulted his wife). He rose to national prominence as the hero of the Battle of New Orleans where his ragtag army of 4,500 militia, Indians, freed slaves, frontiersmen and pirates defeated 8,000 British regulars, many seasoned veterans of the Napoleonic wars.
He served two terms as president, but won the popular vote three times. The first president from West of the Alleghenies, Jackson represented the triumph of the common man in national politics, a development which appalled the Eastern elites of his day. His home, the Hermitage in Nashville, has more than 180,000 visitors annually and tours in five foreign languages.
From Virginia to Oregon, 43 cities and counties in 26 states are named after him – not to mentions schools, parks and army bases. He took the first steps toward bringing both Florida and Texas into the Union, stood for money backed by gold and silver and opposed nullification (a move toward secession).
Of the 13 polls of historians and political scientists taken between 1948 and 2009, most ranked Jackson among the top 10 presidents.
This giant is now reviled as a slave owner (so were four of the first five presidents) who committed atrocities against American Indians. His detractors neglect to mention that he adopted two Indian children, one a ten-month-old found on a battlefield in the arms of his dead mother. As an orphan himself, he could relate.
If humane treatment of racial minorities is the hallmark of greatness, what's Franklin Delano Roosevelt doing on a dime? In far more enlightened times, he put 110,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps – 62% of them U.S. citizens.
The New York Times explained the absurdity in an April 20th story, where the establishment's bulletin board gloated: "But the broader remaking of the nation's paper currency, which President Obama welcomed (try orchestrated) on Wednesday, may well have captured a historical moment for a multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial nation moving contentiously through the early years of a new century."
The mutation of our paper money represents the triumph of symbolism over substance. One nation under God, RIP. Welcome to the tribal America of the 21st. century.
The Democratic Party has destroyed the black family (73% of African-Americans are born out-of-wedlock). Its latest big idea is giving sexual predators access to ladies' rooms, in the name of equality. But, it's putting the face of a black woman on a $20 bill.
At the risk of committing a capital offense, let me state what should be obvious: American history was made by white males, who were overwhelmingly Christian.
Until the current mixed-race occupant of the White House, every president was a male Caucasian – as were overwhelming majorities of Congress and every Supreme Court Justice until 1967.
White males established our nation, forged our identity, fought and won our wars and built our economy. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers didn't just identify as men, but actually were men.
And it was white males who ended slavery in 1865 and gave women the vote in 1920.
The faces on our currency reflect the reality of American history. They represent individual achievement, not interest-group pandering. George Washington isn't on a $1 bill because he was a farmer. Lincoln's face doesn't grace a fiver because he was born in poverty. On a $10 note, Alexander Hamilton doesn't represent immigrants who were born out of wedlock.
The next president will take office on January 20, 2017. The new $20 bill won't be in circulation until 2020 at the earliest.
The Times reports that Secretary Lew "expressed confidence that his successors would not veto the currency makeover. 'I don't think somebody's going to probably want to do that – to take the image of Harriet Tubman off our money.'"
His smug self-assurance is well-founded. When the left goes eyeball to eyeball with Republicans, you know who's going to blink first.
Since Republicans live in abject fear of being called racist or sexist, the smart money isn't on a rescue of Old Hickory.
And the MLK statue doesn’t belong in DC either. Move it to his hometown. It’s cra**** looking besides.
Harriet was a Gun-Toting, Christian, Republican Woman.
Jackson was a Democrat!
LOL.
Jackson made his name by killing indians in Florida and creating the trail of tears as President. I understand that he was a man of his time and a man of the people during his day. As a result, he’s been honored by being placed on the twenty.
Now it’s time to honor Harriet Tubman. She suffered much in her quest against slavery and I have no problem seeing her face on a twenty dollar bill. Not everything is an example of the PC police. It’s just time to honor the contributions of someone else who shaper American History..
We've now entered a period of our history where leftists have taken over and imposed their warped vision of U.S. history on the country will little opposition from our Republican "leaders." Expect to see Jesse Jackson's or Al Sharpton's ugly mugs on some currency in the coming decades.
Exactly
Probably wouldn’t be a USA without Old Hickory. He single handedly prevented South Carolina from seceding in the 1820s. At that point the country probably wouldn’t have stayed together. You would likely have bunch of little countries east of the Mississippi, the Southwest part of Mexico, and the Northwest part of Canada.
The facts are Jackson's imprint on the U.S. was huge....Tubman's was minimal. Many more famous Americans deserve being put on currency before Tubman. We can honor her without putting her on our currency. This was a leftist coup...nothing less.
I absolutely never heard of her. I absolutely do not want her on my currency. How about Ronald Reagan — How about a GREAT AMERICAN????
I admire and respect Tubman. But there is a better answer here. Jackson desperately warned us about central bankers. 20 dollars from his era is roughly the buying power of 500 today.
Put Tubman on the new 500 dollar bill. Use it to demonstrate precisely what Jackson warned us would happen.
And the fact that evidently “so many don’t know who she is” says something about the shape of our country.
I concur.
Sad, but True.
“As a headline in a Washington Post blog admits, “If you have no idea who Harriet Tubman is, you’re not alone.””
Who is “you”, Washington Post?
My guess is most Americans don’t know who Andrew Jackson is either.
Harriet Tubman belongs in the pantheon of great Americans.
When I initially heard this news about dumping Andrew Jackson from the US $10 bill, my knee-jerk reaction was to be against it. I mean, who wants to see anyone other than Jackson on a US Twenty, right?
But I have no problem per se with a woman being on a piece of US currency, and subsequently, in reviewing Harriet Tubman's biographical sketch, I see that she's just the kind of freedom-loving, staunch individualist American Hero that belongs on our currency. She was also a Republican and an icon of the reason that Americans v alue their Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
IMHO, Tubman is deserving of this honor, and, therefore, just because she happened to be Black doesn't mean that the move necessarily was an act of political correctness. God forbid!
So I don't really see this move as PC or problematic; I see it as deserved recognition of someone who has been overlooked.
On top of that, Andrew Jackson had a good run, and some of his character weaknesses are rather problematic when subjected to close scrutiny. I guess you could say, at the very least, that he's "out of vogue" right now, and during such eras, it's not unusual to find one's image disappearing from national currency notes. I'm sure that in the future Andrew Jackson will popup again somewhere.
Regardless of anything else, however, I'm sure that Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson would both be saying "Vote Trump", and they'd both be telling Ted Cruz that it'd be best for both the party and the country if he suspended his upended Presidential campaign...
Vote Trump
First one of those I get, I’m gonna burn.
Precisely.
Aren't tokens a form of racism...according to the BLM Handbook of Hurt Feelings and Everyday Pissedoffedness Definitions?
You must have slept through your elementary school years.
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