Apparently, leftists thought felt that conservatives were going to be mad about Andrew Jackson being removed from the $20 in place of Harriet Tubman; which just shows how the left is stupid and race-obsessed and assumes their opposite numbers are as well.
You will search NRO, American Thinker, PJMedia, AoSHQ and any other mainstream conservative blog in vain for any outraged racist opposition to the change. The best the left could do in support of their thesis was cherry-picked, anonymous Facebook and Twitter messages that, frankly, could be anyone saying anything.
Because the fact is, conservatives were pretty happy with the change, for reasons that should be obvious.
Andrew Jackson
- Founding father of the Democrat Party
- Slave trader
- Committed Genocide against American Indians
- Originated the corrupt scheme of Government patronage jobs and vote-buying that is still the model for Democrat Party governance to this day.
Harriet Tubman
- Republican
- Gun owner and Second Amendment supporter
- Champion of individual rights against a system of systematic, state-sponsored oppression.
I chalk this up as a win, even though most leftists are probably ignorant of the above facts because it doesn’t fit The Narrative. In fact, I’m pretty damn sure of it.
There are many mambers of the Native American community who will not use the $20 bill because President Jackson is on it.
That portrait needs to go on the bill…
Opera singer Marian Anderson is going on the back of the $5. Hamilton was going to be taken off the $10, except that damned musical reminded people that, yes, Hamilton is kind of important; the leaders of the Women’s Suffrage movement are going on the reverse.
I’m sorry, but this all just reeks of political correctness and appeasement to me. And everybody saying they are okay with it sound a little like their are rationalizing it. Yeah, I know I probably sound “racist” or “misogynistic” or “backwards.” Well, guess what? I’m not particularly bothered by it, considering the people who decide what is “racist” and “misogynistic.”
And if you needed to include Tubman, why not issue a simultaneous series of $20s?
Can’t wait for the Japanese Internment Camp bill featuring F.D.R. sitting in his wheelchair with his cigarette holder cocked at a jaunty angle as the Japanese women and children and old men file into the camps.
Well I know I won’t be using the $20, I will just ask for another denomination. So many others could have been chosen.
@ Heliotrope: If people think Jackson needed to go because he was a slave owner/trader, we need to replace Washington. How about MLK, I’d love to see some Twitter-verse conservatives bend themselves into pretzels rationalizing that it makes sense. After all, isn’t MLK in so many ways the founder of the “modern” nation?
If you want a woman on a piece of currency, fine. I would suggest that there are many more noteworthy females in history that should be honored. Tubman – not so much.
Regards,
Peter H.
@ Peter Hughes: What, you think the woman whom the WaPo fought against capitalism isn’t a perfect choice? Yes, that was an actual article from the WaPo: Tubman is perfect because she fought slavery, and slavery is the basis of capitalism, so Tubman was actually fighting against capitalism (Feel the Bern!).
Honestly, conservatives wonder why people are getting tired of their whole “Oh, it’s harmless… nothing will come of it…” thing and their mocking of people who point to a long history of Leftist mission creep in response.
People also seem to forget that Jackson, for all his flaws, was also a war hero and a grassroots politician who worked against the D.C. elite of the time. And Tubman helped John Brown gather resources and men for his attack on Harper’s Ferry, which resulted in the death of a marine and six civilians, and would have partaken in the attack itself, if she hadn’t been sick with a fever. If conservatives think somebody who helped plan events that resulted in the deaths of unarmed American civilians is acceptable, I better not hear a peep out of them if a member of the Weather Underground is nominated for the $50 or the $100.
Best use of Irony by the Treasury Dept. ever, is now over
Jackson HATED the idea of a central bank
http://www.ushistory.org/us/24d.asp
Jackson gave us the Hamilton-Jackson straightjacket on politicians that both leftists and cucks have been trying to erode. Republicans for open borders want the client-patron form of nobility found in much of the 3rd world.
The thing gammergaters instinctively knew from playing minecraft is that its not just a brick.
I am not sure if the bill that is pictured here is the actual $20.00 bill that would feature Harriet Tubman, but if it is… doesn’t that show the hypocrisy of the Leftists? They are the ones who want to take guns away from all Americans and they continuously carry on about the violence of guns, yet they want a picture of Harriet Tubman carrying and waving a gun!! I don’t think that Harriet Tubman ever used a gun except for protection as did most people in the country did at that time. Her compatriot Frederick Douglass lived in my home town in New England which serviced the Underground Railroad and from all accounts, he was a peaceable man. So who came up with this bright idea for an image of Democracy?
From accounts, Harriet Tubman did indeed brandish a firearm on occasion, at one point telling an escaped slave who began to have thoughts of “Massah’s not so bad”-style homesickness that he could either live free at the end of the railroad or die at her hand, but he wasn’t about to jeopardize the safety and transport of the rest of the group.
Oh, and V—you forgot to mention that HT was a devoted Christian, who routinely thought that God spoke to her through her vivid dreams and other side effects of a traumatic brain injury in her youth.
HT is fine with me as a replacement for Stonewall Jackson on the twenty; for those that disagree, would you rather Hillary’s idol, Elenaor Roosevelt (who was one of the contenders)?