But it’s true. Harriet Tubman — whom History.com notes was sustained by two things: “the pistol at her side and her faith in God” — will grace a newly designed $20 bill, to be unveiled in 2030. There’s no question that Tubman’s heroic work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad merits her image on our currency. But who’s getting the boot to make way for the Moses of her people? None other than our seventh president, Andrew Jackson, a Democrat.
Before any tears are shed for the military hero-turned commander in chief, consider that our greenbacks almost lost a patron saint, Alexander Hamilton, instead of someone who would have been appalled to find his face plastered to a federal bank note in the first place. Indeed, last year it seemed likely that Hamilton — who, aside from helping to write The Federalist Papers, stabilized America’s finances, basically founded Wall Street and strongly advocated for a central bank — would be the latest casualty of the demand that a woman get her money’s worth.
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I guess I need to look at it that way!
In your face dumbocrats - the party of the KKK...the truth is finally coming out and the blacks are seeing it!
Jackson is famous for warning the public against having faith in a Central Bank.
He was CB opponent. It is amazing they kept him on the $20 this long.
Alexander Hamilton advocated for a national debt to finance federal spending programs and the federal assumption of state debts. Jackson was the king of vetoes and premier advocate of limited government and states rights, next to John C Calhoun. Of these two figures should we look to as a 'conservative'?
By 2030 there won't be paper money anyway.
No question? I have many in the topic. And Republican? Republicans back had mostly Democratic thoughts and vice versa. Media twisting history!
Paint this anyway you want, it is still very wrong! This PC crap is getting way out of hand, next will be a Gay or Lesbo added to a three dollar bill.
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