Posted on 04/20/2016 9:22:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Harriet Tubman is going to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, according to a report.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to make the announcement on Wednesday, according to Politico.
Sources told the site that he has also decided to keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 bill.
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Yet another gift to blacks that they haven’t earned.
What sexist, racist drivel. If anyone, shouldn’t someone like General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a true Son of our Revolution, be on it? At least, he did wonderful things for the Revolution. But I guess PC rules now days. Anyway, he was a Caucasian...that would eliminate him...and be racist.
We should all cheer publicly that this is good as a Christian is being honored.
Then watch the quiet reversal,
I’m shocked they didn’t go with Madalyn Murray O’Hair
The Fifty dollar bill would have been more appropriate. Grant is not popular in 13 states.
I called this when the idea was first circulated. At least she was an American patriot, and badass to boot.
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822[1] – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and, during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women’s suffrage.
Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave and hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. She was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or “Moses”, as she was called) “never lost a passenger”. Her actions made slave owners anxious and angry, and they posted rewards for her capture. When a far-reaching United States Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850, she helped guide fugitives further north into Canada, and helped newly freed slaves find work.
When the US Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than seven hundred slaves.
After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women’s suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African-Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom. - Wikipedia
Yeah, he was a real winner if you like slavery and killing Indians for no reason other than it’s great fun. Hitler and Stalin must have loved him too.
Oh but he fought the federal banking system. That makes up for all of it!
Yep. And from all accounts I have read about her, she was an honorable and brave person (union spy in the Civil War, etc.).
In short, she was everything Hillary is not.
Who will they put on the trillion dollar bill?
If I request two $10 bills...does that make me racist?
Well, since she replaces slave owning, Indian oppressing Democrat.....
Lose a Presidents picture and gain Aunt Jemima. Kinda like losing Washington/Lincolns birthday to make Presidents day and gaining MLK day.
Everyone will be drawing mustaches on the pic,I’m afraid.
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Who makes the decision on changes on our money...Congress?
I’m offended, I wanted a famous transgender.
Not interested.
At least they left Hamilton alone!
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