DC Tom Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Harriet Tubman: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html?_r=0 Now you too can trade slaves! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 That's awesome. We haven't done that in my family in over 150 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Pandering - what government and politicians do best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Gotta keep black people happy somehow, am i right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Victory for Hamilton over Jackson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Breaking: Treasury throws founder of the Democratic Party off $20 bill, replaces with gun-toting Republican Sounds good. Conservatives need to push for the portrait of Harriet Tubman on the $20 to feature her gun. A true American hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Victory for Hamilton over Jackson Good! What a great thing to do. She really was a great hero. This from during the war was pretty cool: Tubman’s reconnaissance work laid the foundation for one of the more daring raids of the Civil War, when she personally accompanied Union soldiers in their nighttime raid at Combahee Ferry in June 1863. After guiding Union boats along the mine-filled waters and coming ashore, Tubman and her group successful rescued more than 700 slaves working on nearby plantations, while dodging bullets and artillery shells from slave owners and Confederate soldiers rushing to the scene. The success of the raid, which had also included the brave service of African-American soldiers, increased Tubman’s fame, and she went on to work on similar missions with the famed Massachusetts 54th Infantry before spending the final years of the war tending to injured soldiers. One hundred years after Tubman’s successes in South Carolina, a recently formed black feminist group took the name Combahee River Collective in her honor, also paying honor to Tubman’s work later in her life as a powerful advocate for women’s suffrage. http://www.history.com/news/harriet-tubmans-daring-raid-150-years-ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Do Not Weep For Andrew Jackson Politico reports that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is set to announce that Alexander Hamilton will get a reprieve and remain on the $10 bill, while Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 There are a few lessons here, not least the power of popular culture: Hamilton, previously the most obscure figure (to the general population) of the men on American currency was clearly saved in large part by the runaway success of the Broadway hip-hop musical celebrating his life. But it’s worth remembering that Jackson has only been there since 1928, when he replaced Grover Cleveland, and decisions about whom we should honor on our money have always said as much about our values at a given moment as about any historical merit. Jackson was a major influence in turning the federal government into an engine of partisan patronage, setting the model for client-based governing that the Democratic Party in particular has followed ever since. And his demagogy and politics of grievance remain dangers to this day. The Jacksonians are gone from the Democratic Party now – Jim Webb was the last man to turn out the lights on his way out – but the Donald Trump phenomenon has underlined the extent to which they are no friend to principled conservatism, any more than Jackson himself was. As for Tubman, I would argue that she’s not the most influential woman in American history; that honor should rightly belong to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most important of all American novels. But Tubman herself is a worthy honoree, the first ordinary citizen on paper money and a woman of great courage and powerful Christian witness. She was also – this tends to be forgotten today – a nurse and scout during the Civil War and herself a leader of the women’s suffrage movement until her death at 91 in 1913, more than half a century after her “Underground Railroad” exploits. Tubman’s life is not without its own controversies, like her assistance to John Brown in advance of the Harper’s Ferry raid that ended with Brown being hanged for treason (the justification of Brown’s actions is one of the great ethical dilemmas in American history: how far exactly should one go to stop something as bad as slavery?). And if the debates over the $10 and the $20 lead more Americans to learn the flesh-and-blood stories of Hamilton, Jackson and Tubman, that can’t be a bad thing. They remind us that our politics have always been messy and sometimes bloody. Do not weep for Andrew Jackson. He had a good run on the money.Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner Edited April 20, 2016 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Tubman’s life is not without its own controversies, like her assistance to John Brown in advance of the Harper’s Ferry raid So we'll now have a terrorist on the $20. Edited April 20, 2016 by DC Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpberr Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Our currency has had all sorts of people on it over the years. I'm fine with it. I'm glad they are going to introduce somebody that wasn't a member of the government. I wish they'd change it up more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Quick, someone write a play about Andrew Jackson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Our currency has had all sorts of people on it over the years. I'm fine with it. I'm glad they are going to introduce somebody that wasn't a member of the government. I wish they'd change it up more often. Except for the empty-headed logic of "We can't have a slave-owner on the currency!" I'd agree with you. This is just pandering bull ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3 Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Except for the empty-headed logic of "We can't have a slave-owner on the currency!" I'd agree with you. This is just pandering bull ****. Damn...does it hurt to wake up every morning and look for the worst in everything, every person, every action, every outcome? Edited April 20, 2016 by baskin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Quick, someone write a play about Andrew Jackson! Too late.............Show Clips: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Broadway.com Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a rock musical with music and lyrics written by Michael Friedman, and a book by its director Alex Timbers. The show is a comedic historical rock musical about the founding of the Democratic Party Lookin Good Harriet ! This is nice, but...... let's go with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 This is just pandering bull ****. You have to admit though it's some pretty damn good pandering. They hit the trifecta with: a woman, a black woman, a black woman who was a slave. They nailed this one!! Damn...does it hurt to wake up every morning and look for the worst in everything, every person, every action, every outcome? Not as much as it hurts to wake up and be bent over by a rainbow farting unicorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Damn...does it hurt to wake up every morning and look for the worst in everything, every person, every action, every outcome? No. It hurts to have it thrown in my face repeatedly by social justice warriors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Damn...does it hurt to wake up every morning and look for the worst in everything, every person, every action, every outcome? That's what I thought as well, but I was thinking of the people who felt the need to take Jackson off of the twenty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 That's what I thought as well, but I was thinking of the people who felt the need to take Jackson off of the twenty. They should put John Ross on the other side, just to make the "!@#$ you" complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azalin Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 They should put John Ross on the other side, just to make the "!@#$ you" complete. Oh, hell no - there's plenty of other bills we can put his image on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 (edited) Harriet Tubman: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html?_r=0 Now you too can trade slaves! I'm sure they all did great things but those broads they're putting on the back are all fugly. Susan B. Anthony? That has got to be Charles Nelson Riley. Even Poojer says no, no, no, maybe....this is Poojer after all....and no. Edited April 21, 2016 by 4merper4mer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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