Harriet Tubman on the $20
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What a bizarre country we have become.
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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.
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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.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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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As fat as I know the pictures have never changed.
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So tradition. I just think it's a weird choice. Why not douglass? Why not MLK? Tubman just doesn't seem official enough.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
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.
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?
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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?
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.
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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?
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
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Benjamin Franklin, the only President of the United States who was never president of the United States.
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It would be too arrogant even for Obama to approve putting himself on currency. I expect in a hundred years or so they will replace lincoln with Obama. After all lincoln only saved the nation and emancipated the slaves. Obama did...stuff
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
Benjamin Franklin, the only President of the United States who was never president of the United States.
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Benjamin Franklin, the only President of the United States who was never president of the United States.
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Hamilton wasn't president
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Benjamin Franklin, the only President of the United States who was never president of the United States.
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Hamilton wasn't president
You missed the joke pal.Hamilton wasn't president
Maybe the reference it was just too obscure.
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You missed the joke pal.Hamilton wasn't president
Maybe the reference it was just too obscure.
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I guess it was too highbrow for me.You missed the joke pal.
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I guess it was too highbrow for me.You missed the joke pal.
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It would be too arrogant even for Obama to approve putting himself on currency. I expect in a hundred years or so they will replace lincoln with Obama. After all lincoln only saved the nation and emancipated the slaves. Obama did...stuff
It would be too arrogant even for Obama to approve putting himself on currency. I expect in a hundred years or so they will replace lincoln with Obama. After all lincoln only saved the nation and emancipated the slaves. Obama did...stuff
You mean he went on a crusade and started a bloody civil war because he hated state's rights
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It would be too arrogant even for Obama to approve putting himself on currency. I expect in a hundred years or so they will replace lincoln with Obama. After all lincoln only saved the nation and emancipated the slaves. Obama did...stuff
You mean he went on a crusade and started a bloody civil war because he hated state's rights
You mean he went on a crusade and started a bloody civil war because he hated state's rights
That was Lincoln.
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War was already inevitable before lincoln was elected
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