Posted on 12/11/2016 4:29:41 PM PST by Trump20162020
Harriet Tubman, the sword-wielding, gun-toting spy and freedom fighter who led dozens of slaves to freedom in the north after escaping from slavery herself is set to become the first black woman to be featured on American currency—specifically, the $20 bill.
According to a new report from TIME, however, the impending inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and the administrative changes that will come along with it have some within the Department of the Treasury concerned about the future of the new legal tender.
(Excerpt) Read more at fusion.net ...
Oh no, now I need a safe place.
I crack me up.
5.56mm
I could see the Transgender dollar being a coin, or a bill, depending on what it identifies as.
Or, something in-between, if the Transgender is transgendering.
Who the hell is tubMAN? Shafley is the greatest American woman since Betsy Ross!!
There’s only one clear choice for what picture should go on the new $20. Someone who saved America. Honoring our first hero/pervert it should be a pic of Anthony Wiener’s junk. May be hard to choose though as there’s so many out there.
Really, the choices speak for themselves. And Tubman is a different story.
YESSSSSS!!!
I read about one such school, named for Obama. It has a largely black student body. But no word on whether student achievement is good, or whether they take pride in having a black president, or any of that.
“We have pictures of presidents on those bills”. Your words. Hamilton and Franklin are both on currency. Neither were Presidents. Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Seriously? I’ve known of her a long time, since grade school. (1960’s)
Would prefer George Washington Carved on the bill.
never ever was on my screen. She is absolutely non existent to me. I want Trump on the 20!!
I know....Patriots all...
I’m voting for John Moses Browning on the 20.
Carver.
Or JFK or DDE.
thank goodness!
it was ridiculous to even consider tubman!
I keep waiting for your “/sarc” .... Because, seriously?
A lot of our coinage before 1909 was kind of boring. The same depiction of Liberty was on all of our silver coinage: half-dime, dime, twenty-cent piece (for only a couple of years), quarter, half-dollar, and silver dollar. The same was pretty much true of our gold coinage: one dollar, 2 1/2, 3, 5, 10 and 20. But they were of Liberty—head, or full body seated.
1909 brought us Lincoln on the one-cent, which started the trend of replacing the abstract Liberty with dead politicians, a bad idea in my opinion. But 1909 also ushered in the period of good or even great art on our other coins. All of them (except for the Lincoln cent) look a lot better than what we have now.
I don't. By law no living person can be on our money.
“I feel that way about bridges——name them after a location(Brooklyn Bridge) rather than a person who is probably unknown to most of the population.
“
Except for the Gowanus expressway. Who came up with that name?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.