I'm ok with that.

Do we all get a "sample" of the new bill?????

flan

Andrew Jackson was a huge proponent of democracy-taking power away from establishment and giving it to the ordinary people.

Personally, I see this is yet another step towards the demise of the values upon which this country was formed. Not trying to disparage Harriet Tubman, but find another way to honor her memory, IMO.

I thought they were going to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, which would have been better.

But, out of all the others, Andrew Jackson is probably the least offensive to replace. And it's past time a woman was put on currency.


United States currency notes now in production bear the following portraits: George Washington on the $1 bill, Thomas Jefferson on the $2 bill, Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill, Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill, and Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill.Dec 1, 2015

Yeah, that will be next. Use of cotton will be outlawed as discrimination.

Hadn't heard about that. Sheesh. Not surprising though.

Not sure. I think they just want a woman on the bill, and who better than a black slave woman to fill the bill. Next they'll want to put Bruce/Caitlin Jenner on the $100.

Replacing his image doesn't erase history ...

But you knew that.

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Not sure. I think they just want a woman on the bill, and who better than a black slave woman to fill the bill. Next they'll want to put Bruce/Caitlin Jenner on the $100.

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 There was actually a poll taken.  

 

Andrew Jackson, meet Wilma Mankiller.

A group pushing to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has narrowed it down to four potential candidates - including a famous female Native American chief.

The final cut of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Mankiller were selected by more than 250,000 voters in an online poll from a field of 15 famous American women, according to Women On 20s.

The group, which also goes by W20, is lobbying to put one of these women on the $20 bill by 2020, the 100th anniversary off the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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Roosevelt, Tubman and Parks emerged at the top of the balloting. Mankiller, a Cherokee Chief who received the Medal of Freedom in 1998, was added to have a Native American woman in the running. Mankiller died in 2010.

Among the original candidates who did not make the final four was Susan B. Anthony. The leader of the women's suffrage movement in the 1800's appeared on the dollar coin before she was replaced with an image of Sacagawea, a Native American woman who helped the explorers Lewis and Clark.

But there are still no women on U.S. paper currency and W20 is petitioning the president and Congress to change that.

"We believe this simple, symbolic and long-overdue change could be an important stepping stone for other initiatives promoting gender equality," the group says on its website. "Our money does say something about us, about what we value."

Meanwhile, the $10 bill - which features Alexander Hamilton - is on track for a makeover. A redesigned version is set to enter circulation in 2020, according to the Treasury Department.

It looks like Eleanor Roosevelt will replace Hamilton on the $10 come 2020.

I vote to leave the money as is.

Traditionally, only Presidents are supposed to be on the currency. So, I really don't agree with this. But, for the most part i don't care. And, now it will turn political and then we will have to Margaret Sanger on a bill and who knows who? I think they should have put Obama on it instead.

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Traditionally, only Presidents are supposed to be on the currency. So, I really don't agree with this. But, for the most part i don't care. And, now it will turn political and then we will have to Margaret Sanger on a bill and who knows who? I think they should have put Obama on it instead.

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What?  Not really...

Ben Franklin...Alexander Hamilton?

A poll among whom? White House staffers? The good people of Chicago? Black Lives Matter?

Again, not to disparage Tubman, but c'mon.

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A poll among whom? White House staffers? The good people of Chicago? Black Lives Matter?

Again, not to disparage Tubman, but c'mon.

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 It was online.  I voted in it.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Traditionally, only Presidents are supposed to be on the currency. So, I really don't agree with this. But, for the most part i don't care. And, now it will turn political and then we will have to Margaret Sanger on a bill and who knows who? I think they should have put Obama on it instead.

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What?  Not really...

Ben Franklin...Alexander Hamilton?

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 Do you know how many people think Benjamin Franklin was a president?

I know. I was teasing.

Merged.

Tubman will be on the front with jackson on the back.
www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11469442/harriet-tubman-andrew-jackson-20-dollar-bill

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There is now way that Harriet Tubman can remotely be seen as making the same level of contributions to this nation as Andrew Jackson--or any other president, for that matter.

This is a PC farce.

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 No woman could at that time.  Women were not allowed to vote or own property, remember?  The fact that a black woman was able to accomplish anything at all was a miracle in and of itself.  

I think it's long past time for a woman to be on at least one denomination.

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There is now way that Harriet Tubman can remotely be seen as making the same level of contributions to this nation as Andrew Jackson--or any other president, for that matter.

This is a PC farce.

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 No woman could at that time.  Women were not allowed to vote or own property, remember?  The fact that a black woman was able to accomplish anything at all was a miracle in and of itself.  

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 So what?  That is one fact that does not change in any way the FACT that I stated.

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 How's this?  So frickin' what?

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huskerbb wrote:

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There is now way that Harriet Tubman can remotely be seen as making the same level of contributions to this nation as Andrew Jackson--or any other president, for that matter.

This is a PC farce.

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 No woman could at that time.  Women were not allowed to vote or own property, remember?  The fact that a black woman was able to accomplish anything at all was a miracle in and of itself.  

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 So what?  That is one fact that does not change in any way the FACT that I stated.

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 How's this?  So frickin' what?

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 its just stuoid to replace a major player in the history of our nation with one that is not.

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huskerbb wrote:

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There is now way that Harriet Tubman can remotely be seen as making the same level of contributions to this nation as Andrew Jackson--or any other president, for that matter.

This is a PC farce.

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 No woman could at that time.  Women were not allowed to vote or own property, remember?  The fact that a black woman was able to accomplish anything at all was a miracle in and of itself.  

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 So what?  That is one fact that does not change in any way the FACT that I stated.

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 How's this?  So frickin' what?

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 its just stuoid to replace a major player in the history of our nation with one that is not.

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 One that is not?  Are you kidding me?  Andrew Jackson was a rich man who got elected president.  Harriett Tubman escaped slavery, saved hundred of lives, and helped create one of the most useful tools for ending slavery.  All while being black and a woman while both of those types of people were oppressed by the men running the country.  

If she actually had any rights back then, she could have done more than all those men combined. 

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