Harriet Tubman - $20?

[Canon Shooter]

Meh. PC pandering is both silly and unnecessary.

Tubman on the 20 demonstrates the importance of black folks in our shared history.

Its a small gesture. But still too much for those that think that our money should only include old white guys.

Then at least pick a negro who made an actual impact for the greater good.

Tubman helped rescue 70 people.

Small change...

 

[Concerned American]

In 245 years, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, US currency has had dead presidents on it. I would not be adverse to Tubman being put on the 1$ coin--It seems to be the coin that has been chosen to highlight non-presidents--Sacajawea. Coinage has featured non-presidents many times during our history--native Americans, First ladies and so on. I think currency should feature dead presidents ONLY

Biden administration will revamp effort to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

The Biden administration is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

finance.yahoo.com

Poor Andrew Jackson. Then again who still uses money? Its mostly electronic these days. Still replacing a former president just to feed the leftists hunger seems like a horrible idea. I would not have an issue creating a $25 bill with HT on it.

BTW, I still use cash. I don't own an ATM card and I believe in keeping a good stock of precious metals--platinum, gold-----lead.

I barely ever. All electronic just about

My daughter tells me I'm a dinosaur, but so be it. Had a bad experience with ATM in the late 80's or early 90's and I figured cash has always worked with no problems and it continues to this day.

Dude, neither Ben Franklin nor Alexander Hamilton were ever President.

Pardon me, I forgot about Hamilton.

 

[Canon Shooter]

The only way a $1 coin works in this country is if they do away with the $1 bill. When the Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins were issued, people didn't carry them. They were little more than oddities for collectors.

Which would you rather carry? Ten $1 bills or ten $1 coins? The coins are going to be much heavier. That's one of the primary reasons they weren't widely accepted.

When Canada issued their "loonie", or $1 coin, they stopped production of the $1 bill. Canadians didn't have a choice in whether or not the loonie would be accepted, as it was the only option. Until we do something similar, a $1 coin will never be accepted as everyday currency in this country...

 

[Cecilie1200]

In 245 years, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, US currency has had dead presidents on it. I would not be adverse to Tubman being put on the 1$ coin--It seems to be the coin that has been chosen to highlight non-presidents--Sacajawea. Coinage has featured non-presidents many times during our history--native Americans, First ladies and so on. I think currency should feature dead presidents ONLY

Biden administration will revamp effort to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

The Biden administration is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

finance.yahoo.com

Poor Andrew Jackson. Then again who still uses money? Its mostly electronic these days. Still replacing a former president just to feed the leftists hunger seems like a horrible idea. I would not have an issue creating a $25 bill with HT on it.

BTW, I still use cash. I don't own an ATM card and I believe in keeping a good stock of precious metals--platinum, gold-----lead.

I barely ever. All electronic just about

My daughter tells me I'm a dinosaur, but so be it. Had a bad experience with ATM in the late 80's or early 90's and I figured cash has always worked with no problems and it continues to this day.

Dude, neither Ben Franklin nor Alexander Hamilton were ever President.

Pardon me, I forgot about Hamilton.

And Franklin.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The only way a $1 coin works in this country is if they do away with the $1 bill. When the Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollar coins were issued, people didn't carry them. They were little more than oddities for collectors.

Which would you rather carry? Ten $1 bills or ten $1 coins? The coins are going to be much heavier. That's one of the primary reasons they weren't widely accepted.

When Canada issued their "loonie", or $1 coin, they stopped production of the $1 bill. Canadians didn't have a choice in whether or not the loonie would be accepted, as it was the only option. Until we do something similar, a $1 coin will never be accepted as everyday currency in this country...

Many countries have done away with their $1 bill or equivalent and replaced them with coins.

 

[Desperado]

I give no ***** about symbolic gestures like this. It’s not going appease anyone, it’s not going to equal tangible change in any way. Nothing to be upset about or happy about

I agree.

Doesn't matter to me either way. Money is money.

I just want my money to look good,,,, never cared for Aunt Jemima being on waffles let alone on my money

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Yes, it's fine to put Ms. Tubman's likeness on a bill.

But let's also honor the very constructive & law-abiding Asian community by putting a likeness of one of them on a bill, too.

Yes.

Like Chairman Mao.

That's next. Watch and see.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Why not Dick Best? Hero of the battle of Midway or Patton?

Dick Best sounds like a porn star name.

Patton was kind of a racist.

The Problem With Trump’s Admiration of General Patton

“Old Blood and Guts” was undeniably a winner. The real trouble came after he won.

www.politico.com

Disturbingly, Patton had zero sympathy for the Holocaust victims living in wretched, overcrowded collection camps under his command. He was unable to imagine that people living in such misery were not there because of their own flaws. The displaced Jews were “locusts,” “lower than animals,” “lost to all decency.” They were “a subhuman species without any of the cultural or social refinements of our times,” Patton wrote in his diary. A United Nations aid worker tried to explain that they were traumatized, but “personally I doubt it. I have never looked at a group of people who seem to be more lacking in intelligence and spirit.” (Patton was no friend to Arabs, either; in a 1943 letter, he called them “the mixture of all the bad races on earth.”)

The orders from above—Eisenhower wanted him to confiscate the houses of wealthy Germans so Jewish survivors could live in them—embittered Patton. His beloved Third Army was decaying as troops decamped for home, discipline vanished, and meanwhile, “the displaced sons-of-bitches in the various camps are blooming like green trees,” he wrote a friend.

He saw journalists’ criticism of his handling of the Jews and the return of Nazis to high official positions as a result of Jewish and Communist plots. The New York Times and other publications were “trying to do two things,” he wrote, “First, implement Communism, and second, see that all business men of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.”

So you don't know who Dick Best was? I thought you were a history major?

 

[Concerned American]

In 245 years, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, US currency has had dead presidents on it. I would not be adverse to Tubman being put on the 1$ coin--It seems to be the coin that has been chosen to highlight non-presidents--Sacajawea. Coinage has featured non-presidents many times during our history--native Americans, First ladies and so on. I think currency should feature dead presidents ONLY

Biden administration will revamp effort to put Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

The Biden administration is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

finance.yahoo.com

Poor Andrew Jackson. Then again who still uses money? Its mostly electronic these days. Still replacing a former president just to feed the leftists hunger seems like a horrible idea. I would not have an issue creating a $25 bill with HT on it.

BTW, I still use cash. I don't own an ATM card and I believe in keeping a good stock of precious metals--platinum, gold-----lead.

I barely ever. All electronic just about

My daughter tells me I'm a dinosaur, but so be it. Had a bad experience with ATM in the late 80's or early 90's and I figured cash has always worked with no problems and it continues to this day.

Dude, neither Ben Franklin nor Alexander Hamilton were ever President.

Pardon me, I forgot about Hamilton.

And Franklin.

I mentioned Franklin in the my original post.

 

[marvin martian]

Meh. PC pandering is both silly and unnecessary.

Tubman on the 20 demonstrates the importance of black folks in our shared history.

Its a small gesture. But still too much for those that think that our money should only include old white guys.

It's a time-wasting deflection. Do you REALLY think that making black people feel important is, or should be, the priority right now?

Diddling around with "small gestures" that have no real meaning at all is something one does when all the ACTUAL issues have been dealt with.

But thanks for showing us what a racist YOU are.

If we remove pandering to black people with inconsequential and insulting petty gestures, the DemoKKKrat party has nothing to do. It's not as if they'd ever actually do anything to truly help black people. They like blacks right where they are.

 

[JoeB131]

So you don't know who Dick Best was? I thought you were a history major?

I don't waste a lot of time on minor characters...

Also, we shouldn't put anyone named "Dick" on the money. It will cause a lot of awkward conversations at strip joints. "Hey, honey, can you give me a lap dance for two Dicks".

I would have the same problem I have with Tubman. They are both really minor characters in our history.

I noticed you skipped over Patton's anti-semitism like the plague.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

So you don't know who Dick Best was? I thought you were a history major?

I don't waste a lot of time on minor characters...

Also, we shouldn't put anyone named "Dick" on the money. It will cause a lot of awkward conversations at strip joints. "Hey, honey, can you give me a lap dance for two Dicks".

I would have the same problem I have with Tubman. They are both really minor characters in our history.

I noticed you skipped over Patton's anti-semitism like the plague.

Thats because you overstated it (anti semitism) he was appalled at what he saw with the concentration camps and made sure everyone in the world knew about it.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

THAT might actually get me to start using electronic payment methods. No chance in Hell of me ever taking one of those as a form of payment either.,

You can always ask for ten dollar bills.

 

[lg325]

Barbra Jordan , would be my pick for a black American on money. Barbara Jordan - Wikipedia

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

I'd rather have LaWanda Page on the $20 bill.

 

[JoeB131]

Thats because you overstated it (anti semitism) he was appalled at what he saw with the concentration camps and made sure everyone in the world knew about it.

Did you read the article. Not only wasn't he terribly appalled, but he left former SS Men in charge of the camps as guards. He refused Ike's orders to house camp inmates in the homes of wealthy Germans. The reason why he was sacked from his command of Third Army was because he had refused to Denazify the regions he was in charge of.

Look, man, you have to stop confusing the real Patton with George C. Scott.

 

[Anathema]

You can always ask for ten dollar bills.

I will, until they decide to put some other undesirable image on those too.

 

[McFury]

Poor Andrew Jackson. Then again who still uses money? Its mostly electronic these days. Still replacing a former president just to feed the leftists hunger seems like a horrible idea. I would not have an issue creating a $25 bill with HT on it.

Oh, I still use cash. In fact, I run a mostly cash business.

**** Andrew Jackson, racist genocidal piece of shit.

Now, I'm not sure if Tubman is significant enough of a figure to really merit being on the $20.00. I could think of much more notable women in our history.

Final point on Jackson... The man was against the very notion of printed money, so putting him on printed currency was kind of a jab at him. I'm sure he'd be happy to have his picture taken off.

According to historians
.Andrew Jackson 's mom was black.
He hated to be black.
A black dude in power with white skin.
Pretending ...

 

[lg325]

andrew jackson's mom - Bing images Jacksons mom this should have a picture of her.

 

[Auld Phart]

I don't care who I snort coke with on my twenty dollar bills.

I'm sure you don't.

I think that it's about time that a woman and one of color is on our paper money.

Where is it written that it has to be a white man?

I think that it's about time that a woman and one of color is on our paper money.

and that's a reason to change?

because you think 'it's about time'?