Nothing wrong with honoring Harriet Tubman.
But the questions that leave a bitter taste are "How? Why now? Why like this?".
You could say that putting her on the $20 bill is actually pretty racist/sexist. It's obvious that there's two reasons why she was chosen, she's black and a woman. Her actual achievements and inspiring life are a mere pretext, there's no way she would have been chosen if she was white and/or a man.
They would have just agreed on another, more politically expedient candidate.
The actual qualities of a person didn't matter in this process, only gender and race did. Things we cannot choose and have no influence on.
Tubman's life is looked upon as an example for overcoming and providing an example against this exact kind of thinking.
The liberals and leftists are starting to eat their own tail like an ouroboros.
Fact is, nobody cares that it's Tubman that's on the bill.
All the liberals care about is that it's someone who serves their political goals.
It's really not about honoring the great person depicted on the bill, it's about them and their agenda.
Sad!
Anyway, Tubman on the $20 bill is not the only thing that's going to change. Look at
this:
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But the broader remaking of the nation’s paper currency, which President Obama welcomed on Wednesday, may well have captured a historical moment for a multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial nation moving contentiously through the early years of a new century.
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While Hamilton would remain on the $10, and Abraham Lincoln on the $5, images of women would be added to the back of both — in keeping with Mr. Lew’s intent “to bring to life” the national monuments depicted there.
The picture of the Treasury building on the back of the $10 bill would be replaced with a depiction of a 1913 march in support of women’s right to vote that ended at the building, along with portraits of five suffrage leaders: Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony, who in more recent years was on an unpopular $1 coin until minting ceased.
On the flip side of the $5 bill, the Lincoln Memorial would remain, but as the backdrop for the 1939 performance there of Marian Anderson, the African-American classical singer, after she was barred from singing at the segregated Constitution Hall nearby. Sharing space on the rear would be images of Eleanor Roosevelt, who arranged Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial performance, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who in 1963 delivered his “I have a dream” speech from its steps.
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One wild card is that Mr. Lew and President Obama have just months left in office. But Mr. Lew expressed confidence that his successors would not veto the currency makeovers.
“I don’t think somebody’s going to probably want to do that — to take the image of Harriet Tubman off of our money? To take the image of the suffragists off?” he said.
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In advance of Mr. Lew’s decision, the emotion that the Treasury initiative had prompted was reflected in a letter to the Treasury secretary on Tuesday evening. More than three dozen women including actors, feminists, corporate executives and journalists objected to preliminary news reports that he was planning to renege on putting a woman on the $10 face, calling it, if true, “a major blow to the advancement of women.”
They admonished the Treasury secretary, saying: “ Could there be a better metaphor for second-class status that continues to limit our girls?”
By the way, what does it say about the current state of American society that Hamilton was only saved by a musical, of all things?
And apparently in all of American history, the only women who mattered, who suffered, who made a difference, who are worthy of being commemorated, are feminists or happened to belong to a minority. Sounds about right.
Anyway, Martin Luther King will be honored with a tiny image on the back of the $5 bill. While Tubman is admirable and inspiring, compare that to the achievements, influence and prominence in American history of Martin Luther King. Unfortunately for him and his legacy, he was male.
If he would have been a woman, his portrait would be put on the $20 bill now. But nowadays his achievements are rendered negligible due to his gender.
Pretty ironic, if you think about it.
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