re: #326 lawhawk

A larger unifying history? You mean one whitewashing the bad acts by our government?

Jackson was a new add to the $20. He was added in 1928. Why? Not even the Treasury seems to know the answer to that one. They just decided that Grover Cleveland was no longer worthy of adorning the $20.

So now, we’re going from Jackson to Tubman. And that’s somehow not part of a unifying American history?

Seriously? Tubman was at the forefront of the fight against slavery. A fight to be a better nation - and to end the insurrection against the Union launched by the South that seceded to preserve the institution of slavery where black men, women, and children were treated as chattel or worse.

The other changes to the $10 and $5 likewise add diversity and a history lesson.

Of course, history and facts are other things that the right wingers rail against. Knowing how and why women were denied the right to vote for so long, why minorities were treated awfully for so long, and why Jackson is being demoted (learn about the Trail of Tears sometime and how we still are doing wrong by Native Americans to this day) is something that the right can’t abide by.

History is passing them by, but they’ll get to see it as they buy and sell stuff in coming years.

You’d think NRO would be happy. The Obama Administration chose a Christian Republican. // But noooooo they have to bitch because they know their readership demands it that the Obama administration decided to put a prominent abolitionist on our money. I swear, the NRO if Obama had been president during the Civil War would be doing their usual mental gymanstics. They don’t have a real ideology anymore if they ever really did. Just hating the Obama administration.