Harriet Tubman $20 bill not going over well with Trump fans, other garbage humans

Normally, I’d just wonder what got so many racists into a frothing rage over a woman who was a major part of the Underground Railroad.

Today?

*pops popcorn, shares it with Mammothers*

I’m too busy enjoying the fact that someone like Harriet Tubman is replacing a president who was the driving force behind the Trail of Tears.

And as a woman of color myself, I’d have to say that it’s just WONDERFUL to see those racist goobers lose their SHIT.

*sips tea*

Good stuff, good stuff.

Policy of Madness’ policy is definitely a good one for now; in 15 years things might have changed.

“The mentally ill left?” Where did they go?

Sorry, I’ll be making my (heh) egress now.

I never much liked history lessons. For me it seemed mostly to be about about awful people being as awful as possible, with a few bright spots here and there. And your grade seemed to be dependent on how well you could spin it into normal humans just doing human stuff. Also regurgitating dates. I don’t know if it was the same everywhere, but I blame the school system for many of the f’ed up attitudes that some people have for each other.

My thoughts were: funny, I don’t remember her being like [the fictionalized version of] Robin Hood… Oh. Oh. Also, thank you very much for reminding me of the Trail of Tears, one of the few parts of history that I really wish I could forget. Bastards.

(I tried to come up with a more creative insult than “bastards”, but the only thing I could think of was “a pit of scorpions does not deserve you falling into it” which just seems kind of weird and inappropriate.)

Finally, getting rid of that douchebag president (who ironically hated paper money) on our $20 bills.

I also recall that one of the other women they wanted on the $20 bill was Rosa Parks.

Likewise, if I recall correctly, you can find Charles Darwin on printed notes in England. Can we put a scientist on our money and get rid of the “In God We Trust”? “E Pluribus Unum” is just so much stronger of a phrase to go by.

Uhh, isn’t the plan to keep Jackson on one side of the bill and Harriet Tubman on the other? At least that’s what the internets said couple of hours ago?

I, personally, would find that idea NOT OKAY. Boot that genocidal POS and let Harriet have it all.

One of the great things about being a supermarket cashier is the conversations you can gave. I remember one lady who was from Andrew Jackson’s state. She referred to him as “Our first redneck President”, so I assumed she was not a fan.

I’m so excited! Tubman was one of my heroes as a kid despite her only getting a line in my history book. I went to the library and read more! So excited!

Oh yeah, regarding my earlier post, here’s a 10 pound bank note from Britain with the most notorious bearded man on it…

http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30002494/2010/09/2010-09-14-11-27-41-4-charles-darwin-a-hummingbird-and-the-hms-beagle-a.jpeg

Come on America, let’s get a scientist on our money!

Things I did not learn in elementary school, middle school, or high school:

I did not learn about Harriet Tubman. I learned about her because feminists wrote about her.

I did not learn about the Trail of Tears–although it’s possible that I learned about the event without learning what the Indians called it. The Johnny Cash album Bitter Tears taught me more about the heartbreaking history of Native Americans than I learned in my American school.

Nor did I learn about the 1892 Homestead Steel strike, a major event in the history of US labor. Homestead was about 5 miles from my house. The titans of steel shut down that strike. Later, different titans of steel moved the entire industry to Japan, leaving many people–whose families had worked for generations in those mills–without jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike

What else didn’t I learn? I kid you not–World War I. We were told that it was too complex. Something told me even then that the titans of steel didn’t want us to know about the role of big capital in that war. Later, I found out that the rate of desertion was relatively high among German solders toward the end. And some French soldiers actually mutinied. Something else to keep from us!

That Drunk History clip was awesome. I need to watch more of that.

Knee jerk reactions from reactionary jerks living on their knees. Who would have expected that?

They are the same…individuals (the most polite word I’m willing to use) who said “respect the presidency!” during Bush’s unelected residency, but have regularly called for assassination after 2009.