• Women's Poll Wants Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
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[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32726392[/url] [quote]Could Americans soon be calling their $20 bills "Tubmans?" Move over, former US president Andrew Jackson. Voters of an online poll have chosen famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman to replace him on the twenty dollar bill. A grassroots campaign is pushing the US Department of the Treasury to put a woman on American currency. The group is pushing it before 100th anniversary of Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. All seven bills currently in circulation in the US feature a man's face. The Woman on 20s campaign surveyed 600,000 people over 10 weeks and Tubman emerged as the winner. On Tuesday, Woman on 20s presented a petition to President Barack Obama encouraging him to urge Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew to make the change.[/quote]
How about no. All though Jackson was a right cunt, most of his attitude towards the banking system and assassination attempts redeems him :v:
sure, why not, it isn't like there's a requirement that you have to be president to be on a bill with benny franks and the $100s being a thing
Couldn't they find a woman who was a bit more... You know, important?
Why an abolitionist? I thought the Abolition was, like, a really bad thing for the USA? [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Put Hedy Lamarr on it. Amazing actor and helped to invent what became Wi-Fi. [editline]18th May 2015[/editline] Although nobody will ever read this, I would like to take a moment to apologise for being such a colossal idiot that I mixed up the Prohibition and the abolition of slavery.
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;47717616]Couldn't they find a woman who was a bit more... You know, important?[/QUOTE] Probably still more deserving than Andrew "Cherokee Killing Spree" Jackson.
Fuck Americans, put Ada Lovelace on the $20.
I consider Eleanor Roosevelt to be the better candidate. But yeah sure whatever I guess.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717622]Why an abolitionist? I thought the Abolition was, like, a really bad thing for the USA? [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Put Hedy Lamarr on it. Amazing actor and helped to invent what became Wi-Fi.[/QUOTE] wasn't abolitionism about abolishing slavery?
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717622]Why an abolitionist? I thought the Abolition was, like, a really bad thing for the USA? [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Put Hedy Lamarr on it. Amazing actor and helped to invent what became Wi-Fi.[/QUOTE] Abolition was the movement to end slavery.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717622]Why an abolitionist? I thought the Abolition was, like, a really bad thing for the USA?[/QUOTE] You're thinking more about the Civil War. Pretty much, it was a war between 2 factions. One faction wanted the federal government to have more power than state governments and the other faction wanted the opposite. The conflict was pretty much inevitable since the Constitution was signed.
Christ, it seems like anything historical has to be 'revised' to suit someone's agenda.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47717612]sure, why not, it isn't like there's a requirement that you have to be president to be on a bill with benny franks and the $100s being a thing[/QUOTE] They should replace franklin with the first woman president when that happens, in my opinion. That way, it will be all presidents.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717622]Why an abolitionist? I thought the Abolition was, like, a really bad thing for the USA? [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] Put Hedy Lamarr on it. Amazing actor and helped to invent what became Wi-Fi.[/QUOTE] oh my god lmao why do you think us outlawing slavery was a bad thing
[QUOTE=Ardosos;47717658]They should replace franklin with the first woman president when that happens, in my opinion. That way, it will be all presidents.[/QUOTE] Alexander Hamilton, the mug on the $10 wasn't a president.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;47717649]You're thinking more about the Civil War. Pretty much, it was a war between 2 factions. One faction wanted the federal government to have more power than state governments and the other faction wanted the opposite. The conflict was pretty much inevitable since the Constitution was signed.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure they were thinking of prohibition.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;47717633]Probably still more deserving than Andrew "Cherokee Killing Spree" Jackson.[/QUOTE] Andrew "Shoot those faces at ten paces" Jackson may not entirely deserve to be on our most ubiquitous bill, but some random black women who saved a couple slaves when the Slavery Debate was already raging something fierce seems like one of those token "look how tolerant we are" gestures. Pick someone who deserves it, seriously. [editline]13th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=usaokay;47717646]Anita Sarkeesian for the $20 bill.[/QUOTE] See, this is the kind of forward-thinking we need when designing bills. She's already more important to gaming than the creator of DOOM, she deserves a place in history as a mover and shaker in America society.
[QUOTE=usaokay;47717646]Anita Sarkeesian for the $20 bill.[/QUOTE] I can imagine the conversations already. "Gonna stuff a wad of Anitas in a stripper's panties."
[QUOTE=Mingebox;47717672]Pretty sure they were thinking of prohibition.[/QUOTE] Maybe assimilation also.
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;47717641]I consider Eleanor Roosevelt to be the better candidate. But yeah sure whatever I guess.[/QUOTE] I agree whole heartedly with this. She made more of an impact on Female Rights than anyone.
No. Theodore Roosevelt.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;47717671]Alexander Hamilton, the mug on the $10 wasn't a president.[/QUOTE] Really? Man, looks like I need to go back to elementary school social studies, can't remember presidents anymore.
Hillary Clinton.
[QUOTE=usaokay;47717646]Anita Sarkeesian for the $20 bill.[/QUOTE] She can go on a Chuck E. Cheese token maybe..
For real if you want an abolitionist why not put Frederick Douglass on it. [img]http://i.imgur.com/LqiGHLg.jpg[/img] Imagine this face staring back at you every time you pull out a twenty.
They should alternate the women on the 20 like they did with states on the quarter. Then I could have a "binders full of women" $20 bill collection
[QUOTE=Mingebox;47717708]She can go on a Chuck E. Cheese token maybe..[/QUOTE] Anita Sarkeesian for Bitcoins make it happen.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;47717598]How about no. All though Jackson was a right cunt, most of his attitude towards the banking system and assassination attempts redeems him :v:[/QUOTE] tubman was pretty hype too though. she was the first woman to lead forces (over 700 captured slaves) in the civil war, she saved like seventy dudes while getting periodical seizures, and when she started getting sick of her brain problems she casually asked a surgeon to pop her skull open without anesthetic, and afterwards she was just like "thanks bud" and went on her way. i would say they're at least on par with each other in terms of crazy stuff
How about replacing everyone with no one?
The fact that Tubman won an online poll means two things: 1.) Either the people who organized the poll didn't know who to put on it, or the people voting don't know anything about women's rights throughout history. 2.) It's an online poll, so nobody cares. [QUOTE=Jamsponge;47717622]Put Hedy Lamarr on it. Amazing actor and helped to invent what became Wi-Fi.[/QUOTE] "It's not Hedy, it's [b][i]Hedley![/i][/b] Hedley Lamarr!"
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