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Treasury Secretary to announce Harriet Tubman to replace Jackson on the $20 bill

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RS4-

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Racists Across America:

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They're just gonna save their 20s and hope they're magical, rare currency in the future.
 
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cameron

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Sounds great.

Replacing the Treasury Building on the $10's reverse with leaders involved in the women's suffrage movement is also a good move.
 
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TheOddOne

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- The New Yorker: Keep Hamilton on the Ten. Put Tubman on the Twenty.
When the Civil War broke out, Tubman put her knowledge of the back routes of the South into the service of the United States Army, as a scout and a spy. Among other things, the intelligence she provided proved crucial in the capture of Jacksonville, Florida—a town named for a certain President who is now on the twenty, and who, in 1835, among other pro-slavery acts, gave Southern postmasters the authority to seize Abolitionist literature that passed through the mail. For what was hopefully not the last time, Tubman beat Jackson.
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I know he's another white guy but I'd love to see Teddy Roosevelt's mustachio'ed grin on some form of currency.
 
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Raistlin

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Does this mean the South is going to collect all the current bills to use as their de facto currency moving forward?



I can see some stores refusing to accept the new bills lol
 
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Colonel Mustard

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Why was Jackson on the 20 to begin with? His legacy is essentially racism, attempted genocide and beating a man half to death on the white house lawn with his cane.
 
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$1: Keep the same, just too iconic.
$2: Also keep the same, just because it's not used.
$5: Lincoln on front and civil rights mural on back
$10: Hamilton on front, American science mural on back.
$20: Tubman on front, American Indian mural on back.
$50: Grant on front, American engineering mural on back.

Trash the $100 and the penny.

Keep the dime the same.
Rotate a series of American Indians on the nickel.
Keep up with the rotating themed quarters.
Rotate important women on the $1 coin.

Find a place for Teddy and his national parks.
 
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perfectchaos007

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SG-17 said:
$1: Keep the same, just too iconic.
$2: Also keep the same, just because it's not used.
$5: Lincoln on front and civil rights mural on back
$10: Hamilton on front, American science mural on back.
$20: Tubman on front, American Indian mural on back.
$50: Grant on front, American engineering mural on back.

Trash the $100 and the penny.

Keep the dime the same.
Rotate a series of American Indians on the nickel.
Keep up with the rotating themed quarters.
Rotate important women on the $1 coin.

Find a place for Teddy and his national parks.
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The $100 is too iconic to change too. The hip-hop community loves rappin about benjamins.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

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Imagine all the rap bars that'll come from this too lol
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Called up the homies to play some Gin Rummy,
One of them pulled out a Jackson I yelled "Bitch! Where's yo Tubby?!",
He tried to play it off like we was some dumb fools,
So we jumped on his ass and ate his fruit loops
 
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JABEE

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Colonel Mustard said:
Why was Jackson on the 20 to begin with? His legacy is essentially racism, attempted genocide and beating a man half to death on the white house lawn with his cane.
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Jackson was the first commoner to win the Presidency.

He helped win the battle of New Orleans.

Killing and moving Native American people was not an unpopular policy at the time. There was animosity between European/American settlers and Native American tribes. The expansion of the borders of the United States created conflicts.

Lincoln was a fan of Andrew Jackson.
 
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Sean C

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Colonel Mustard said:
Why was Jackson on the 20 to begin with? His legacy is essentially racism, attempted genocide and beating a man half to death on the white house lawn with his cane.
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Because of "Jacksonian democracy", the opening up of the electoral system to people who were neither from the Virginia planter elite nor surnamed "Adams"; and the image he had as an economic populist. He was, until fairly recently, considered one of the major Democratic presidents (hence the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners the state parties have traditionally held, though many of those are being renamed now).
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Sorian said:
Is the earliest we see this still 2030?
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That was what I heard, which means it will never happen since its incredibly likely a Republican will win office between now and then.
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Now, just rename the Washington Redskins the Red Tails, and you've got yourself a deal.
 
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Colonel Mustard

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JABEE said:
Jackson was the first commoner to win the Presidency.

He helped win the battle of New Orleans.

Killing and moving Native American people was not an unpopular policy at the time. There was animosity between European/American settlers and Native American tribes. The expansion of the borders of the United States created conflicts.

Lincoln was a fan of Andrew Jackson.
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Yeah, but the Jackson 20s didn't enter circulation until the late 1920's, it was Grover Cleveland before that, I think.

I'm just surprised that it hasn't been changed since, to Kennedy or someone. It's good we're getting around to it now.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
The real question now is when President Kamacho finally gets put on the $69 dollar bill? Why has it taken so long?
 
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thepotatoman

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Macho Madness said:
"Eh, Jackson was a Democrat."
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The Federalist party died so the Democratic party was the only party at the time.

You can also say he started this country's push towards nationalism and away from states rights, after he imposed a bunch of tariffs and then passed a bill that entitled the president to use force to collect taxes from states like north carolina that didn't want to pay them, which is exactly the type of thing modern southern confederates point to when they say the civil war wasn't about slavery.

Of course that sort of thing probably puts him on the Lincoln republican side of things, which brings up the weird fact that the party of Lincoln is also the party of states rights, anti-taxes, and confederate heritage.
 
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