Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on 20 dollar bill

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1. Harriet Tubman’s first biographer, Sarah Hopkins Bradford, tells a remarkable story about the anti-slavery hero.

2. Tubman had an intimation that her parents, still held as slaves in Maryland, were in trouble. She needed funds to effect their rescue.

3. Tubman marched into the New York office of abolitionist Oliver Johnson, and staged a sit-down hunger strike to secure the necessary funds

4. The Lord, she said, had told her to come and demand twenty dollars. Incredulous, Johnson ignored her.

5. When she fell asleep, people who heard of her plight stuffed $60 into her pockets. She journeyed south, and brought her father to freedom
 

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Good choice. Now watch Hollywood come out with a biopic with a biracial or heavily mixed female cast as Harriet.

Starring Zoe Saldana as Harriet Tuban. I can picture it now


Director Ashton Kutcher talking about the film "we wanted to focus more on Harriets personal life, so the movie is more about her love affair with multiple white men, although Harriet free'd slaves, she was very passionate with white males, we just discovered her diary where she talks about her escapades"

Zoe on the red carpet with her white bf and kids "I'm not actually black, I'm latina, 99% spainish bloodline, we're europeans"
 
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Viola Davis is playing her in an HBO movie.

Viola Davis Developing Harriet Tubman Movie at HBO

Queen V!!! :banderas:And she's developing a Barbara Jordan feature too? The good news just keeps coming today. I know Viola will do the role justice in the same way Queen Latifah and Monique did with their roles in Bessie. They did their thing in that movie and I'm sure Queen V will deliver as well. Black Excellence.
 

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part of me is :obama: because of the recognition. makes people do their googles and know their history.

i'm also :birdman: over the reminder of this country's wealth being built on the back of free slave labor and the wrong done to blacks never being rectified. seems like an empty gesture.


plus by 2020 will paper currency even be as ubiquitous as it is today? i hardly use cash as it stands now. that debit card life.
 
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