…this did bring a smile to my face.
Breaking: Treasury throws founder of the Democratic Party off $20 bill, replaces with gun-toting Republican pic.twitter.com/G9dVXpTaXv
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 20, 2016
I saw that yesterday and held off posting it, because I was unaware Harriet Tubman was a republican – or much of anything else politically. To be honest I’m still not sure, and apparently I’m not the only one.
However, as official TUAK policy, a $20 bill shall henceforth and forever be referred to as a Tubby. Not that I see that many of them…
ETA: Via Codrea, Here’s somebody’s idea of how she should be depicted…
I like it! Hell will freeze over first!
I am amused the SJWs have proverbially shot themselves in the foot. Way to go!
This won’t be our first politically correct currency. Does anyone else remember the short-lived Susan B. Anthony silver dollar (AKA “Carter quarter”)?
If you give a black person a $20 Tubby is it considered reparations?
No. It’s only reparations if it’s taken from you by force.
Ben, I still have a few Suzies here in my loose change box. In Socal they were required for driving on the toll roads. Here they’re pretty much useless.
“It’s only reparations if it’s taken from you by force.”
Yeah . . . like as taxes.
Well planned, the $5 and $10 will get some new faces as well (LA Times link to follow):
“With Hamilton’s position secure, and with the Obama administration under pressure to add diversity to the currency, Lew’s compromise is to replace a picture of the Treasury building on the back of the $10 with leaders of the suffrage movement — Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Lucretia Mott.
The back of the $5 bill will also be redesigned to include opera singer Marian Anderson, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.”
I honestly don’t care, but then again rarely study the Scrip issued.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-harriet-tubman-20-bill-20160420-story.html
Hey Mutti, from that article: “Harriet Tubman and President Andrew Jackson lived on opposite sides of the American experience.” I wonder what Sally Hemings would have to say about that? Andy Jackson has been acknowledged to have sampled the black experience with remarkable intimacy.
Ben – wow. Depending on which way the Bill is laid, that could be provocative. Where is my safe space when I need it?
IIRC, Hemings was Jefferson’s consort, not Jackson’s.
Kevin you are correct, and my face is now red! Jackson owned slaves and it has been alleged he had relations with at least one, but (unlike with Jefferson) there is a lack of evidence.
I was kinda wondering what Sally Hemings had to do with this. 😀 Here’s how ignorant I am, I don’t even know when Tubman lived. Maybe she and Hemings were buds or something…