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Harriet Tubman on the $20

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  • The horrors of changing the face on our currency, when will this insanity ever end.

    @baconhound said:

    The horrors of changing the face on our currency, when will this insanity ever end.

    Because whose dumb face adorns our currency is the real problem with it. ?
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    Aunt Jemima would have been the better choice.

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  • LOL.

    Sure, ObaMao, replace all white faces on currency with black faces.

    And go ahead and replace all Americans with illegals from Mexico, and Europeans, Asians

    anybody to replace those white Americans.

    Wait, he's already doing both.

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    Harriet Tubman was a gunslinger.

  • I am hoping Harriet's judging look will make people more fiscally responsible.

  • I am hoping Harriet's judging look will make people more fiscally responsible.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    I am hoping Harriet's judging look will make people more fiscally responsible.

    probably not
  • @logicisforsquares said:

    I am hoping Harriet's judging look will make people more fiscally responsible.

    probably not

    @browns149 said:

    probably not

    "Put those goddamn Fritos down."

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  • It just seems like an odd choice for such a major bill. I still think fredrick Douglass would look more at home there

  • What a bizarre country we have become.

  • I'm failing to see why this matters - perhaps someone could explain it? We change who's on our notes quite regularly, in fact we're due for another change:

    £5: Elizabeth Fry (social reformer) -> Winston Churchill (Winston Churchill)

    £10: Charles Darwin (that guy creationists hate) -> Jane Austen (that lady schoolkids hate)

    £20: Adam Smith (economist/division of labour guy) -> James Turner (probably our most famous classical artist)

    The fifties are staying the same.

    These people have only been on the notes for maybe 5-10 years, and there's a whole bunch of other people who have been on the notes since they were introduced in 1970.

    Do the US notes basically never change? I know as far back as I can remember people talk about 'benjamins' and having dead presidents on the money.

  • @the-cysko-kid said:

    Surprised this hasn't been brought up yet. I personally don't care who's on what but Harriet Tubman seems a weird choice. If it's just diversity they're going for why not use Fredrick Douglass? He would seem more in line with the rest being a statesman and diplomat as well as an important abolishionist.

    Frederick Douglass acted all white and stuff. Anyway they kill two birds with one stone, had she been a lesbian they have scored a trifecta. It would probably be in poor taste to suggest she should have been put on a food stamp instead so I won't make that comment.

    😮

    WSS

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    @westside-steve said:

    Frederick Douglass acted all white and stuff. Anyway they kill two birds with one stone, had she been a lesbian they have scored a trifecta. It would probably be in poor taste to suggest she should have been put on a food stamp instead so I won't make that comment.

    😮

    WSS

    Stuart

    Plus Douglass was half white, not an authentic black. Other than his racial make up, he was the antithesis of Obama.

    Funny how the same sentiments Douglass had about our political parties still apply today.

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  • I'm failing to see why this matters - perhaps someone could explain it? We change who's on our notes quite regularly, in fact we're due for another change:

    £5: Elizabeth Fry (social reformer) -> Winston Churchill (Winston Churchill)

    £10: Charles Darwin (that guy creationists hate) -> Jane Austen (that lady schoolkids hate)

    £20: Adam Smith (economist/division of labour guy) -> James Turner (probably our most famous classical artist)

    The fifties are staying the same.

    These people have only been on the notes for maybe 5-10 years, and there's a whole bunch of other people who have been on the notes since they were introduced in 1970.

    Do the US notes basically never change? I know as far back as I can remember people talk about 'benjamins' and having dead presidents on the money.

    @gftchris said:

    I'm failing to see why this matters - perhaps someone could explain it? We change who's on our notes quite regularly, in fact we're due for another change:

    Stuart

    And that's what we're striving for...to be just like you motherfuckers.

  • @gftchris said:

    I'm failing to see why this matters - perhaps someone could explain it? We change who's on our notes quite regularly, in fact we're due for another change:

    Stuart

    And that's what we're striving for...to be just like you motherfuckers.

    @stinkhole said:

    Stuart

    And that's what we're striving for...to be just like you motherfuckers.

    I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting much from you, and you still disappointed.

  • As fat as I know the pictures have never changed.

  • So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.

  • So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.

    I get that. Kinda like Rosa Parks or someone - not particularly official.

    If they want to have a president, but also some diversity, and piss off republicans, why not just put Obama on there?

  • @the-cysko-kid said:

    So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.

    I get that. Kinda like Rosa Parks or someone - not particularly official.

    If they want to have a president, but also some diversity, and piss off republicans, why not just put Obama on there?

    @gftchris said:

    I get that. Kinda like Rosa Parks or someone - not particularly official.

    If they want to have a president, but also some diversity, and piss off republicans, why not just put Obama on there?

    I bet some would like to see him on a postage stamp. 😮

    I'll be expecting to see Bobby Sands on a five pound note.

    🙂

    WSS

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  • @the-cysko-kid said:

    So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.

    I get that. Kinda like Rosa Parks or someone - not particularly official.

    If they want to have a president, but also some diversity, and piss off republicans, why not just put Obama on there?

    @gftchris said:

    I get that. Kinda like Rosa Parks or someone - not particularly official.

    If they want to have a president, but also some diversity, and piss off republicans, why not just put Obama on there?

    Benjamin Franklin wasn't a president and neither was Alexander Hamilton so president isn't necessarily a qualification

  • Benjamin Franklin, the only President of the United States who was never president of the United States.

    WSS