HARRIET TUBMAN BANK PREZ STANDS BY DEBIT CARD DESIGN 'We Are Unapologetically Black'

TMZ ^ | 2/14/2019 | tmz

[RummyChick]

1:45 PM PT -- OneUnited Bank prez and chief operating officer Teri Williams is doubling down and standing firm behind the Harriet Tubman debit card. She tells TMZ the bank is "unapologetically black." What's more ... Williams says the debit card design had been in the works since 2016.

[aquila48]

Yuck! Who would want to carry such ugliness in their wallet?

[dsc]

“Forget all the race posturing - How about it’s just terribly inferior artwork? If they are going to honor her, at least hire a talented artist to do the work.”

Yes, but I’m sure they wanted to hire a black artist.

[aquila48]

[mass55th]

She was kicked in the head by a horse or mule while she was still a slave. The last house she lived in is in Auburn, New York...same city that William H. Seward's house is in. Went to both of them when I was living there. I met a great niece of hers when I'd gone back to the historical society in Auburn to do research. According to her great-niece, Harriet was instrumental in founding the A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn. Harriet is buried in Fort Hill Cemetery as is the Seward family. So is Myles Walter Keogh, who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and Civil War Brigadier General Emory Upton.

Harriet was in South Carolina during the Civil War working with Colonel James Montgomery who commanded the 2nd South Carolina Regiment (USCT). George Thompson Garrison, son of abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, was an officer in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry, the 2nd black regiment from that state. I found excerpts of his diary at Cornell University while researching the 55th. They were in a collection of Burt Greene Wilder, who had been the Assistant Surgeon of the unit. In early February 1864, Garrison made a notation of having run into Harriet while on Folly Island, S.C.: "She took me greatly by surprise when I entered by giving me a hearty embrace, flinging both her arms about me. Till this morning, I was not aware she was upon the island. She says she has been here three months."

[Pikachu_Dad]

Was she R or D

Well most of her life was in the pre-R era.

She fought with the R’s

She fought against the D’s

So I would say she is a very solid R !

[hanamizu]

I have no doubt there are a few dumb@ss politicians who think Wakanda is a real place.

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It is a real place. It’s my wife’s hometown; Wauconda, Illinois. But there are few blacks living there.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Incorrect. It is a lot of black people that are upset at her being commercialized.

No. There is the fringe, left-wing blacks, the Sharpton-Jackson wing, who are doing this to stoke division because there's going to be some people who will object.

BTW, I'm vehemently opposed to Tubman being on the $20. My belief is that only the Founders should be on currency. But I don't mind if Tubman was on a commemorative coin though.

[OrangeHoof]

Dat bes okay, Teri. My money iz green, not black or white, so excuse me while I put it in a bank that don’t care what dey color be.

[Texas Eagle]

Not gonna click on the link. Who complained about it?

[piasa]

That idea’s been broken for a while, unfortunately ... Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kennedy are already on our money... some others too.

[piasa]

If it’s just a debit card that’s one thing, but I doubt Tubman, religious woman that she was, would be thrilled about having her image on a credit card since credit cards are a tool that very often leads people back into slavery.

[piasa]

I’d carry it if it was an image of her with her gun.

[1_Rain_Drop]

That debit card portrait is horrible. The highlight values are wrong. At first I thought mountains were in the background then I realized it was clouds. So many things wrong.

They should have just used the photo. It’s nice.

[RonnG]

Why can’t they change the portrait to make her look more modern as was done with Aunt Jemima Pancake mix?

[Gideon7]

Back when the govt was proposing putting a woman on the $20 bill a lot of Freepers liked this one.

[Vision]

She tells TMZ the bank is "unapologetically black run by racist hatemongers".

[Fresh Wind]

What do you suppose would happen if a white-owned bank president said “we are apologetically white?”

[ronnie raygun]

Horrible art work

[TalBlack]

And I’ll bet that people who are unapologetically white are racist...

[Right Wing Assault]

Williams says the debit card design had been in the works since 2016.

Don't want to move to fast, eh?

Why emphasize her white palm and why is half of her face white? It looks weird.