Posted on 04/20/2016 11:00:12 PM PDT by Trumpinator
In a sense of political correctness turned political irony, the abolitionist and underground railroad conductor will replace Democrat President Andrew Jackson.
On Wednesday the U.S. Treasury reported that Tubman, who during the Civil War was active in the Union cause, serving as a nurse, a cook, spy and scout, will replace Jackson on the front of the bill. The seventh President, whose supporters founded what became the Democratic Party, will move to the back of the bill along with an image of the White House.
Jackson, noted as a military man, has in recent years fallen out of favor over his treatment of Native Americans and the fact that he owned slaves. Earlier this year groups railed against the naming of a new warship, the USS Jackson, by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, despite the fact that the vessel was named in honor of Mississippi’s capital city by the former Governor of the Magnolia State.
Tubman on the other hand was a supporter of the anti-slavery Republican Party, though some argue she may not have been a fan of Mr. Lincoln’s at the time.
Further, to a degree she encouraged insurrection against the Federal government, helping abolitionist leader John Brown recruit volunteers to seize the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
Biographer Kate Clifford Larson has noted Tubman was comfortable with guns:
Harriet Tubman carried a small pistol with her on her rescue missions, mostly for protection from slave catchers, but also to encourage weak-hearted runaways from turning back and risking the safety of the rest of the group. Tubman carried a sharp-shooters rifle during the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman’s pistol and saber are on display at the Florida A & M University (FAMU) Black Archives in Tallahassee, Florida.
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But would we want a Bill Clinton dollar? - depends - he would have to be dead at the time.
Yes, Ivory grips - cutlass?
I guess my propensities would be to use the dollar coin exclusively and to become a federal criminal by defacing every dollar bill I came in contact with.
So we are putting the picture of a terrorist co-conspirator on the twenty dollar bill. - that’s right. See also Son’s of Liberty and their acts of terror on shipping and commerce. I fully support terrorizing slave owners and tyrants.
Ping to check out later.
I do remember that. I also remember another story about her when she was confronted by a Southern bounty hunter who tried to arrest her. She pulled out her gun and made it clear to him in no uncertain terms she was willing to use it. He just went the other way and let her go.
I think liberals may soon be having second thoughts about Harriet Tubman. Among other qualities, she was profoundly religious, and accomplished the things she did despite being illiterate.
They assume Tubman’s worst enemy, like theirs, was white Southern men, when in fact only a relative few were enforcers of slavery. Harriet Tubman judged people as individuals, which is not very liberal itself.
In other words, she was no Sheila Jackson Lee.
he owned slaves
affirmative action even back to the continent
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