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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI asked, on FB, who would object to the new $20?
Here is what someone said.
I give them an 'A' for creativity...but that's all.
I do & so do others...this comment from another post perfectly sums up the way I feel about it:
"EXPLOITING Harriet Tubman's image ---- I have to wonder what she would think about having her image placed on a piece of paper that essentially symbolizes the debt enslavement of humanity. My guess is that she would not be pleased and she definitely not consider it an honor. To me, this is another case of appropriating the image of someone remarkable and re-coding it in a way that is just the opposite of who she really was. This is a manipulation! As far as I'm concerned, keep the original images on those bills; they more accurately represent who it was and who it is designed to benefit . They were certainly not created to benefit anything that had to do with Harriet Tubman... Changing the face on the bill has nothing to do with changing a system of debt enslavement and disenfranchisement."
"EXPLOITING Harriet Tubman's image ---- I have to wonder what she would think about having her image placed on a piece of paper that essentially symbolizes the debt enslavement of humanity. My guess is that she would not be pleased and she definitely not consider it an honor. To me, this is another case of appropriating the image of someone remarkable and re-coding it in a way that is just the opposite of who she really was. This is a manipulation! As far as I'm concerned, keep the original images on those bills; they more accurately represent who it was and who it is designed to benefit . They were certainly not created to benefit anything that had to do with Harriet Tubman... Changing the face on the bill has nothing to do with changing a system of debt enslavement and disenfranchisement."
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I asked, on FB, who would object to the new $20? (Original Post)
SHRED
Apr 2016
OP
Valid points. Shows again, life and its challenges are far more involved . . .
Journeyman
Apr 2016
#3
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)1. Had not thought of it that way. hmm
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. I don't know
I think they are just hiding their racism in a clever way.
Tikki
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)9. Yeah, that makes more sense.
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)3. Valid points. Shows again, life and its challenges are far more involved . . .
than we may initially believe.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)5. I think she would celebrate, considering the hell she went through
just to get her $20 per month pension for her Civil War services.
http://www.harriet-tubman.org/compensation-for-civil-war-services/
thesquanderer
(11,989 posts)6. My feeling is similar about having "In God We Trust" on our money.
If God exists, I think that's about the last place she would want her name. Root of all evil, and all of that.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)7. hard to ask someone who is dead...did anyone ask washington or lincoln?
I think if given the choice old abe would have preferred not to get shot over being on currency