Replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman is another step in their direction affirming America as a nation fraught with sin which needs reckoning. I don’t care that Tubman is black. I don’t care that Tubman is a woman. I don’t care that she helped to free slaves. The questions should be:
1) Why are we replacing Andrew Jackson (and don’t give me Zinn’s one-sided communist version of U.S. history)?
2) If Jackson is to be replaced, is Tubman the best replacement? This was never put to a national debate. Someone in government just decided it.
3) What’s to prevent some government official from deciding the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial need to be replaced without consulting the rest of the nation?
Who the hell do these people think they are?
14 replies on “What’s Next after Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill? The Jefferson Memorial?”
OK, then put her on a new 15 dollar bill. Or a new 25 or 30 dollar bill.
In a sense Ashli Babbit was a Harriet Tubman for our times. She was demonstrating her right to her opinion in disgust for our stolen federal election conducted by the Marxist Slaves of the Left. She had no gun or weapon, and was harming no one except breaking a window. Her life was taken away. We should post her photo on the other side of Harriet Tubman’s twenty dollar bills as a reminder of the crazy times in which we live.
Harriet Tubman is honored because SHE went against what was a law.
“These people” think they are better than the rest of us.
And we allow them to get away with every single thing they want to do because of “whatever”.
They haven’t listened to us in ages, what makes us think they’d “consult” us on anything?
By people voting for them (fair election or no) we gave them permission to do what they’re doing.
We all play a part in our own demise.
Absolutely nothing unless many behave like Harriet Tubman and defy authority.
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Your concern regarding 2 and 3 in particular is legit, but I say in this case we call their bluff and insist on this version: Tubman brandishing a pistol and motioning to follow her to FREEDOM like some seditious insurrectionist with no respect for authority or the law of the land.
Even if they did choose this version, it would be okay because they would deem her actions as justified (even though against the law at the time & fighting slavery) while deeming others (like Jan. 6th) terroristic.
Of course they’d try to draw that distinction, and I’d be OK with that, taking it as a net win for positive #2A representation. But I know they’d never accept a depiction of anyone packing heat, righteous abolitionist or otherwise, so I realize my proposal is nothing more than an idle joke. I’d love to see this design proposed in debate though (if there was one). I’ve learned that Bill’s advice to grant the premise, and follow it to its logical conclusion can bear fruit in situations like this. If the do change the $20 bill, I may look for a T-shirt with the “renegade Tubman” 20 on it to wear around!
No, doubt they would allow a weapon on anything.
Love the T-shirt idea. 🙂
I like it! Gangsta Tubman.
I missed the best characterization of this design’s Tubman: Gun-Toting Republican Women for the win!
There ya go!
To be fair, I think Tubman is a pretty worthy candidate for a picture on a note; she gets a great chapter in General Stanley McChrystal’s book ‘Leaders’.
In the UK the people don’t get to pick what’s on the notes, that’s decided by a committee at the Bank of England, although they have polled the general public for ideas before.
They generally rotate them every so many years and pick someone of historical significance in a field (literature, politics, etc).
Of course the other side of the note always has HM Best Person on it.
I agree that she’s a worthy candidate. I just wish they would have given all of us a chance to endorse her. Yet instead of asking the American people, they feel it must be forced on our “racist” society. I’ll be they’re afraid of asking us. We’d probably agree and destroy their narrative that white supremacy is lurking around every corner.
Thanks for your input my friend.
I think she is worthy. I don’t think McChrystal’s endorsement is worth the paper it is written on, however.