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US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American woman to be featured on the face of U.S. paper currency in more than a century. Tubman was born a slave and went on to become an anti-slavery crusader. Ironically, she will be replacing Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the U.S. and a slave owner. According to Wikipedia, "Jackson held as many as 44 [slaves] by 1820, and later held up to 150 slaves, making him among planter elite. Throughout his lifetime Jackson may have owned as many as 300 slaves." The decision to feature a woman on a bill started in part from a young girl's letter to President Obama about the lack of women on U.S. currency. A social media campaign "Women on 20s" then began pushing for a woman to replace Jackson on the currency early last year. Originally, the department announced it would feature a woman on the $10 bill instead of Alexander Hamilton. Now it's being reported Hamilton will stay on the front of the bill with a group of women on the back of it. Civil rights era leaders will reportedly be depicted in the new $5 bill.
Political correctness lives on.
While the motivation for this change is a bunch of SJW nonsense, to be sure, the result is hard to argue with. She was a heroic figure at a time when America needed heroes. (Plus, we're replacing a Democrat with a Republican, so there's that.)
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
The USA has become an ideological state at this point. Throughout human history, diversity has never worked,and in fact has appeared in empires shortly before their demise. This is because diversity is paradoxical: when two or more groups occupy the same space, there can be no cultural standard in common, which means that government must step in with increasing police actions, leading to tyranny. It is why Plato wrote that tyrants always import people from the colonies.
When a white man with no criminal record is more likely to commit crime, but a black man with no criminal record is more likely to be wrongfully convicted, then no, we aren't square. The level of offending is equal between races (corrected for prior convictions), but the incarceration level among equal offenders is vastly disproportionate. When that's all equal, something biased and measurable, we'll be closer. But we have become addicted to convicting minorities to strip them of the right to vote, so those in power will never change the voting base, it might get them voted out.
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A Black man at 30 years old with no criminal convictions offends at a rate below that of a white man of 30 years of age with no criminal convictions. That's a well documented fact. I'm not trying to counter any "widely available statistics". I'm stating the simplest fact. Correcting for a single factor (recidivism) puts white offending at a rate higher than Blacks. You don't have to correct for SES or anything else. Now, even though Black offending is less than whites, Black convictions are much higher than whites. That's the proof of institutional racism.
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If you're asking why didn't put Obama on the bill, it's because the Republican Party has been trying to make it as though he'd never been born from the moment he took office.
Can't be putting an unperson's picture on there, can we?
Personally, I hope they use her Civil War woodcut portrait [wikimedia.org], which shows her holding a rifle.
The progressives that want her on the bill also do not want a gun on the bill.
Actually... did I say gun? Clearly that is an assault weapon.
"His name was James Damore."
No, the liberals just think that white men have so long been so responsible for so much MORE pain and suffering and other horrible things, that they become better people if they make concerted efforts to undo those 'atrocities' by ignoring the white men and the descendents of white men (no matter how long ago), slandering them, excluding them, and endangering themselves and others in the process.
I had a sucky sig.
I tell the truth that the racist bigots don't want to hear. Why don't you look up the numbers and prove me wrong? Oh right, because you don't want the truth. You want to believe your comfortable lie.
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