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Trump: Putting Tubman on $20 bill "pure political correctness"
The Hill ^ | April 21, 2016 | Jesse Byrnes

Posted on 04/21/2016 7:31:49 AM PDT by Biggirl

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To: pgkdan

Andrew Jackson like all people was a product of his time. He served America well and judging him by 21st Century standards is revisionist and inaccurate. Everybody hated and feared the Indians. If you have a History degree I would think it would have given you some perspective.


21 posted on 04/21/2016 7:56:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Tubman is part of an ongoing desperate effort to find significant blacks in US history.

She is a particularly good subject... since almost nothing concrete is really known about her. Thus almost anything can be made up to make her seem larger than life.

But the sad fact is, even if she had John Henry strength and personally carried 500 slaves on her back to freedom while beating off confederate soldiers with a donkeys jaw bone she wouldn’t be worthy of being covered in a US history course. Maybe an in depth course on the civil war might mention the under ground railroad in passing, but a general survey course of US history? no way.


22 posted on 04/21/2016 7:56:26 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: arl295

Yes, release a new $500 note, she can be on it, good idea.


23 posted on 04/21/2016 7:59:54 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: pgkdan
well...I disagree. I think Harriet Tubman is a great American heroine and Andrew Jackson was a horrible and detestable man

Tubman was a minor historical figure. Jackson was a giant, both as a general and as president. His trail of tears history must be seen in the context of the battles he wages against the murderous Seminoles from Spanish Florida, whom he defeated and then took the state. He was a slave-owner...so was every Founder. Big whoop. Jackson was the last president to eliminate the national debt, and also fought those trying to establish a Federal Reserve in his time (and he won).

24 posted on 04/21/2016 8:01:53 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Everybody hated and feared the Indians. If you have a History degree I would think it would have given you some perspective.

Nobody had reason to hate or fear the civilized tribes that were forcibly relocated to OK. The Cherokees were completely civilized and peaceful. They didn't fight the unjust policies of Washington and Georgia with tomahawks and arrows...they took them to court, all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Twice.

25 posted on 04/21/2016 8:08:18 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Biggirl

This move is simply a way to continue racial division long after Obama is gone. He simply can’t help it. Some idiot will deface the bills and it will make national news about how racist the nation remains. I will go on and on and on. Guaranteed.


26 posted on 04/21/2016 8:08:33 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Biggirl

Yep, asked everyone that Iknow and not a person knew who the hell she was. I guess Katlin Jenner goes on the $3 bill next!-)


27 posted on 04/21/2016 8:09:26 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
And Tubman is a good choice.

Was Tubman's contribution to our nation's history as significant and indispensable as any of the men whose portraits now appear on our currency? No, it was not.

In fact, we should be changing the notes more frequently, not once every 90 years. I would say to keep Washington on the $1 note, but everyone else is changeable.

In other words, every few years we'll be replacing Founding Fathers and other historically significant figures with politically correct footnotes to history. Here's a likely scenario: out with Franklin, in with Cesar Chavez or Harvey Milk on the $100. No thanks.

28 posted on 04/21/2016 8:12:30 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Biggirl

A radio station went on the street tonsee how many people knew who Harriot Tubman was. It was only 1 person... I believe she was a Republican and replace a democrat! ...now what about 20 years down the road she gets replaced with aomeone white, will people say that is “racist”? ...finally this is juat another distraction. We have have terrorist crossing the bkrder and come in as refugees. Obama would rather we talk about this. He probably has something controversial planned every week ftill the end of his presidency.


29 posted on 04/21/2016 8:12:50 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: Biggirl

The next President can put Obama’s crap in Budget Cuts


30 posted on 04/21/2016 8:12:53 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: goldstategop
Okay, I'll bite

What's "DEWM" stand for?

31 posted on 04/21/2016 8:13:47 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Biggirl

Great answer!

No go take the one you said about transgender Bathrooms back because the VAST majority don’t want them using bathrooms of the other sex!


32 posted on 04/21/2016 8:13:49 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: pgkdan

No other commander ever got better fighting from his Indian allies than did Andrew Jackson at Horseshoe Bend.


33 posted on 04/21/2016 8:14:39 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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To: pgkdan
meaningless battle at New Orleans, no matter how triumphant the outcome, does nothing to remove the stains on his name. Those stain were self inflicted and the result of psychotic hatred for American Indians. His treatment of the Seminole and Cherokee people would be considered genocide today. I'm no bleeding heart but Jackson is an historical embarrassment.

Jackson's epic, one-sided victory over British regulars, using what the British considered mongrel American troops, was the battle that convinced the British that the United States was never going to be a colony again. Fact.

34 posted on 04/21/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: Biggirl

Just make a $30 dollar bill.


35 posted on 04/21/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: NorthMountain

The progressives know that if nothing is constant and in flux then the citizens will be confused and easily led. It is as simple as that.


36 posted on 04/21/2016 8:18:02 AM PDT by WMarshal (Trump 2016)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Andrew Jackson won a major victory in a mostly unsuccessful war against the British. Had they succeeded in taking New Orleans, the British would have essentially bottled up commerce coming down the Mississippi and bounded the United States at that river. He also prevented a civil war by forcefully warning South Carolina that secession would result in a massive defeat of that state's forces and execution of the leaders of the secession. Had James Buchanan been as forceful as Jackson, the secession movement in 1860-61 would have been stopped well before Abraham Lincoln rode into Washington.

Most importantly, Andrew Jackson broke the power of the duopoly of the early years of the Republic, where power was shared between the Tidewater aristocracy and the mercantile interests of the Northeast. The farmers who were settling the Appalachians, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid-South were poorly represented by the two elites, as was the growing working class in the East Coast cities. While Jackson was as wealthy as any of his predecessors, except Washington, he was a common man, the son of recently arrived Scots-Irish immigrants to the Carolina Piedmont. He grew up in poverty.

He was a slaveholder, but so were four of the first six Presidents. He waged war against the Indians and expelled them from their ancestral homelands, but so did Lincoln and Grant. Washington and Jefferson were also advocates of aggressive settlement of whites throughout the continent.

For the PC sins of being a slaveholder and supporting dispossession of the Indian nations, every President or major important official prior to 1900 should be expunged from the currency. We would have to destroy Washington and Jefferson's monuments, and maybe those to Theodore Roosevelt, who believed in Nordic supremacy as well and who waged war against the Muslim terrorists in the Philippines.

37 posted on 04/21/2016 8:19:30 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: pgkdan

Many Cherokees stayed who did not desire to live under Indian government. Many settlers were part-Indian.

When the Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims and killed all the troops and settlers, most of those inside the fort were “breeds” as were many of the attacking Indians.


38 posted on 04/21/2016 8:20:02 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47)
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To: Biggirl
Trump is completely clueless. Harriet Tubman is an American hero, and completely worthy of being on the $20.00.


39 posted on 04/21/2016 8:20:17 AM PDT by Antoninus (Dump The Rump)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
The average church lady has just as interesting a story as Harriet Tubman, and has contributed as much to US history.

If you think that, you don't know her story. The woman risked death and imprisonment on 19 separate occasions to rescue people from slavery, trusting only in God to see her through. Even the war heroes I know can't claim a record like that.
40 posted on 04/21/2016 8:22:05 AM PDT by Antoninus (Dump The Rump)
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