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Harriet Tubman?

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#7 ·
Our Founding Fathers and early war heroes will all be PC'd out of existence.
Harriet Tubman is a founding mother of modern America. Like the other founders she defied an anti-freedom establishment and fought to bring freedom to the people she led. Tubman's efforts helped lead to changes in government that made life better for all of us.
 
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While I don't think we should be replacing Presidents who are on bills, she's not horrible.

While I think the claim that she was the first to lead troops in battle is bogus, it's not because she didn't. I think there are others before her. She certainly contributed to the Civil War effort in numerous ways.

Heck there were women involved in the first battles of the revolutionary war.
 
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I don't disagree with the change, but feel that others deserve the recognition more. If we are addressing past sins, it was Andrew Jackson who was responsible for the "trail of Tears" Let s put a Cherokee Chief on the $20 bill. Also there are many other better choice than Harriet Tubman, much more influential in speaking out against Slavery, Why not Frederick Douglass? Or how about Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice. Better Choices by far
 
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Thurgood Marshall was not a 2A supporter.

Douglass didn't nearly do as much as Tubman, he was a statesman who fought with words, Tubman fought with everything she had. She was the ideal American, a true freedom fighter.

It took this change to wake people up, it's interesting how the tone within the SB threads has changed from the very first post about Tubman. Initially it was the typical SB hate and racism, the attacking of her without knowing who she was. As people were forced to look at who she was, many have seen that she is an amazing person and held dear to the ideals that many of us do.
 
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I oppose the change based only on one fact: the reason for the change. Tubman is an important historical figure, and she deserves it, but the reason she was chosen was:

Primarily, because she was a woman.

Secondarily, because she was black.

Thirdly, her place in history is significant in a way that promotes a modern day race-based victimhood complex.

While it's true that she was a God-fearing, gun-toting, Evangelistic Christian Republican, that had nothing to do with it, and those making the change will not allow any particular mention or portrayal as such on the currency template they will choose.

On the other hand, I think Jackson's removal was a long time coming. He's not the only president whose bad behavior should preclude him from being on currency, but he's definitely one of the top offenders.
 
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Jackson did to the natives the exact same thing they did to each other and the earlier civilizations that inhabited this continent. The natives raped and tortured white women and children. They weren't the noble savages depicted in Hollywood. They were combatants in a brutal two way fight and they lost. Demonizing the victors is a display of ignorance and naivete.
 
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Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde? A murdering thieving wretch?

:rolleyes:

I was all in favor of taking Jackson off the $20. Now I hear they aren't actually taking him off the $20, but moving him to the back of the bill. I should have known this government couldn't possibly get this right.

Jackson's face on a Federal Reserve Note is ongoing insult to the man who made it his life's mission to destroy the central bank of the US.