Harriet Tubman may be on the new 20 dollar bill

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Good in my opinion. The more one knows about Andrew Jackson the more one realizes he wasn't a good man. Maybe a good general per his defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans but not a nice man overall.

Apologies to backers of both Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks, but abolitionist Harriet Tubman emerged as the winner in a contest that drew more than 600,000 votes.

Women on 20s has been advocating for a woman’s face to replace Jackson on the $20 bill for months and will now present a petition to President Obama with its pick.

Tubman garnered 118,328 votes, narrowly beating out Roosevelt’s 111,227.

Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, as the group points out, and also was a slave owner, which could make replacing him with the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad a fitting pick. Legislation to make his replacement a reality has already been introduced in Washington.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/harriet-tubman-may-have-just-been-voted-into-your-wallet/ar-BBjGmVV#image=1

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. But she was a criminal!!! ...

{For those requiring it, please look at my screen name ... the sarcasm thingy should not be needed}

[Half-Century Man]

17. And?

So were G. Washington, Ben Franklin, T Paine, F Douglas, Rev. ML King, and M. X; she stands...or rather those men stand in good company.

[bigwillq]

2. Cool.

[951-Riverside]

3. I would have prefered a Native American. I don't get why Europeans and Africans still get first dibs

when its not their country. The majority of US government representatives are of European, African and Spanish descent. There are almost no Native Americans.

At least the genocidal European colonists wanted slaves alive to exploit them for labor but they wanted Native Americans wiped out so they killed MILLIONS. Some estimate that 100 million Native Americans slaughtered for this land.

Its absolutely shameful.

[LittleBlue]

12. Pocahontas. nt

[Half-Century Man]

23. Tasunke Witke

Or in English, Crazy Horse.

[Omaha Steve]

19. Many FIRST Americans won't use a $20 bill because Jackson is on it

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. I have relatives that would never accept them.

[7962]

22. We do have the Sacagawea dollar!

[Art_from_Ark]

25. We used to portray Indians on various coins

For example,

Buffalo/Indian Head nickel (1913-38)



Indian Head half eagle ($5 gold piece, 1908-1929. The same design also appeared on the $2.50 gold piece)



Indian Head penny (1859-1909)



And today there is a US gold bullion coin that has the same design as the Buffalo/Indian Head nickel, although very few people know they exist

[Terra Alta]

4. a woman AND a person of color

Awesome. Hope it becomes a reality.

[madville]

5. Not with this Congress

Maybe after 2020 depending how the Census and re-districting goes. Nice thought though.

[cwydro]

6. K and r.

[progressoid]

7. That would be great but

I guess that means Macey will have to be on the 10 or the 50.

[eggplant]

18. I love it.

I suspect she's overqualified for the job, though.

[bullwinkle428]

8. I can't wait for the tea-baggers to start posting videos of themselves

burning the currency, and then starting a gofundme.com campaign after they realize they just torched their rent money!

HERPUS-DERPUS!

K&R.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. I was torn between Tubman and Parks...

either is an excellent choice, IMO.

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. I want Lucy Parsons on the 20.

The nominating process wasn't publicized. Not too many people knew this was going on until after the voting.

[Octafish]

11. Got a painting to draw from...

?1331197792

...by Paul Collins.

[brooklynite]

13. Misleading headline...

...this was a poll by an advocacy group. Why would it have any particular clout with the Treasury Dept.?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Hence the word "may"

[Egnever]

15. May is a tad optimistic

[mountain grammy]

16. Great choice..

I wanted Eleanor, but Eleanor would have wanted Harriet Tubman.

Main thing, get that nasty racist Jackson out of my face!

[eridani]

21. Rosa and Eleanor are good, but 20th century

I think more people need to know 19th century history--Tubman was a contemporary of Jackson, but on the right side of history.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. .......in a contest.

Leaving aside the relative merits of Ms. Tubman and the myriad terrible things for which Andrew Jackson was undeniably responsible, the fact is he's not going to be taken off the twenty any time soon.

I could probably get 100K people to vote to put Jerry Garcia on the ten, but that isn't actually going to happen, either.

[Kalidurga]

26. I would vote for that

so you only have 99,998 to go, that is if I can count your nomination as a vote.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Hell yeah. I'd also support Harriet Tubman on the 20.

But I lean more towards the postmodern, or surrealist take on money anyway, so probably Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd would be a better choice.

Honestly what our paper money also could use? Some color. Just plain green is BORING!

[Kalidurga]

28. I voted for Harriet Tubman

I wouldn't mind if we replaced all the current people on our money. It might be confusing for a minute, but oh well. Who says things need to stay the same forever?

In God We Trust: Money, indeed

[JustAnotherGen]

29. There was a DU thread about this a month or two ago

When the idea of a woman American hero was first floated - and I voted Tubman.

Know why?

She wouldn't care.

She'd tell us all: enough of your jibber jabber! Get back to work! Don't you people have anything more important to do? You know what I did? Go do something like that you lazy damn fools!

That's why she would be awesome. Grew up with a mom in hotel and tourism in Western NY so I'm a bit of a student of notable folks from that area.

If she has ny knowledge of this - she's soooooo above it all and sooooo over it already.

[Stellar]

30. Better late than never....

Cool!

ETA: to all the racists out there I'll be happy to take all of your $20 bill starting in 2030!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

31. I'd forgotten about this post

Surprised someone dug it up.

[Stellar]

32. LOL!...usually I do a search on topics that I found on the news...

before I post any additional information here on DU. I didn't realize it was that old. Sorry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us/women-currency-treasury-harriet-tubman.html?_r=0

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. No need to apologize

The article just shows the wheels of change often move slowly.