Treasury to announce that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bill

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

Racist cac's would stop using 20 dollar bills if this is true.

cool then they can give me all their 20's

 

[pon]

Lol@ black excellence

 

[Prominence0]

This is so corny....

 

[ball15life]

George Washington is gone too?

Look, the only people upset are people who don't like change. It's a nice but terrible gesture.

I meant the most powerful man during his presidency...should have been more clear

 

[valet]

Hopefully this will be on the back of the bill

 

[flo]

You already know teenage girls on Twitter gonna be like....

Why is Aunt Jemima on the 20?

The racist jokes gonna be ridiculous when this happens.

That's why this makes me uncomfortable.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

It's way past due, imo. Andrew Jackson was a piece of shyt.

Seriously, that part of it might be the best. The fact that someone who did as many despicable things as Andrew Jackson was still being honored on our cash was a national sin.

Don't like it

Of all the formidable black leaders you choose Tubman?

They wanted a woman because there aren't women on the front of any bills yet. If you're going to pick a woman....she's a damn good one.

Not that I agree or disagree because it is unknowable, but the argument is that Harriet Tubman would've been anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and for the abolishment of the US empire, including its currency.

Yeah, that had me feeling a little suspect about it. She did work as a spy for the Union during the war, so you can't say she was completely anti-government or anything though.

I'm not okay with it. It will piss me off every time. I hate being reminded of slavery.

I'd rather be reminded by looking at a slave-freer than by looking at a slave-owner.

No idea how this got approved. Nobody else sees the irony in putting a freed slave on an item used for the buying and selling of goods?

Yeah, people can see that slight irony, but come on now. Look how insanely pissed off the racists are. This ain't never going to be a win for them.

And when you realize how bad the counterargument is, you get why it's okay. Can you imagine if the Treasury Department said, "We wanted to put Harriett Tubman on the $20, but we didn't want to put former slaves on our money" or "We wanted to put her on the $20 but we thought people might make racist jokes, so we decided to stick with only White faces for now."

Side note, no offense, I don't like calling her a "freed slave". That makes it sound like something that happened to her. She was a Black woman who straight threw off the chains of slavery.

To you and others, notice how coincidently this news is released right after that injustice yesterday? Trying divert our attention from that injustice to give us something to cheer about. Her face being on a fukking $20 is useless right now.

There's a war going on right now, no black man's safe from.

Come on now, you folks are fukking crazy. You think there's a national conspiracy involving multiple branches of the government to change the nation's currency so that they can manipulate the news cycle because they think Black people are so short-sighted and forgetful that learning about Harriet Tubman on the $20 is gonna make them somehow totally forget about Liang's sentence. Right.

Ya'all conspiracy theorists will put the absolute biggest importance on the dumbest shyt. This news will have NO impact whatsoever on what happens to Liang or the backlash about it. It's like that reporter they claim was fake killed on national TV....but really killed/disappeared off-screen somewhere....so that the government could...um....do what again?

If the government is really putting this much energy into plots this dumb, then we have nothing to fear from them, because they'd have to be the stupidest plotters imaginable.

 

[No Sleep]

"Here ******s we put one of you on our money"

 

[Prominence0]

Hopefully this will be on the back of the bill

LMFAO!

 

[Unknown Poster]

This seems wrong for some reason. It feels disrespectful to Harriet Tubman

It really is. I cant get with it.

 

[Poitier]

Some of you do this weird thing where you conflate issues re: reparations, colonialism, Harriet Tubman's face on currency. Representation isn't "pointless" and its valid for AAs to feel joy about it. Last I checked, you can be for reparations and for this while against US hegemony. Some of you need to stop thinking your view (or whomever you are regurgitating) is only correct and instead work on your critical thinking skills.

 

[dontreadthis]

I don't like this shyt. the same $20 bill that during her day could be probably used to purchase her as a slave and today will be used to buy drugs that are pumped into our neighborhoods.

 

[DaPresident]

I'm happy that they put not only a woman, but a sista on the $20...



I still have this feeling like they saying something similar to, "oh yeah, put HER on there I guess...that'll keep THEM quiet for a lil while."

 

[Sunalmighty]

I heard that this isn't until 2030?

 

[Poitier]

Yeah, that had me feeling a little suspect about it. She did work as a spy for the Union during the war, so you can't say she was completely anti-government or anything though.

Yeah, abolitionist and Black union soldiers were capitalist, too, which is why I think assuming what she would have thought is BS and a product of mapping current society onto the past.