Posted on 05/13/2015 7:31:41 AM PDT by grundle
A feminist group that wants to boot Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill has chosen a female hero to replace him — abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
On Tuesday morning, Women on 20s revealed the results of a 10-week poll for a possible Jackson replacement and emailed a petition — addressed to President Barack Obama — to the White House Council on Women and Girls.
By midday, the council’s chair, Valerie Jarrett, and executive director, Tina Tchen, responded, saying they “would like to continue the conversation.”
“We’re waiting for some kind of meeting with the White House, and I can tell you that we are already in conversation with them,” Susan Ades Stone, executive director for Women on 20s, said first to Yahoo News.
The nonprofit argues that the year 2020, the centennial of women’s suffrage, would be the perfect time to add a woman to our U.S. banknotes.
Tubman is most remembered for her role as a conductor along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of houses leading slaves to freedom in the North.
Born into slavery in Maryland sometime between 1820 and 1825, she fled to Philadelphia via the Underground Railroad in 1848.
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I can live with it; the lady does deserve recognition.
That reminds me of the time a guy asked me for change of a $15.00 bill. I gave him two sevens and a Susan B.!
No, I meant exactly what I said, Feminist IDOLS. I do Not think that these women or all of the women nominated were Idiots. At some level you have to be intelligent to do what these women did.
I do think some of them were dead wrong, Margaret Sanger, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, and Eleanor Roosevelt for example. At least one I can praise, Harriet Tubman, who was both intelligent and brave, and if she voted, probably voted Republican. I do not know enough about the others to say one way or the other, but they are all Feminists or revered by Feminists, ergo, “Idols.”
Here are the candidates from their website;
http://www.womenon20s.org/the_petition
“Alice Paul, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth, Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, Margaret Sanger, Patsy Mink, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Frances Perkins, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Cady Stanton...”
That makes two of us.
In her Wonder Woman outfit, of course.
We should replace Jackson with an Indian. We have a long history of Indians on US money:
Nah, too expensive to wipe my butt with vs. plain old TP (though that's getting pretty pricey these days).
Agreed. But I chose a picture of Sequoyah in particular because he created the Cherokee language alphabet which was used to translate the Bible and their tribal laws. Just the sort of “savage” Jackson and the Democrats wanted marched out. Besides, I’m part Cherokee and it’s a really cool picture.
The ignoramuses say there has never been a woman on US Currency. Dead wrong! I nominate Martha Washington and I bet the BEP still has the engraved vignette from the last time she was on a bill.
Everyone repeat after me: “I’d like that in fifties and tens, please.”
Most excellent! Sending to a feminist that I know.
Post It widely!
-PJ
What’s wrong with the White Man on it now?
Ah hell, why not Al Sharpton! Or maybe the first lesbian golfer who cane “out”. So it’s Billie Jean King! Or we could have the first black president. Does it make any difference that Slick Willie is a white man?
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