Suggestion For Harriet Tubman

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He's the father of our country!

 

There are commemorative coins with Booker T and Washington Carver. Put Harriet on a proof silver half and leave Jackson alone!

 

The USA has so much more goin for it than just people. How about our national parks, our many yearly festivals, our inventions, our holidays, and our varied architecture just to name a few. There has to be better designs than portraits.

 

Jackson is being moved to the back of the $20.

 

But that's the problem. Commemorative coins aren't circulating coins. Whom other than collectors will ever know they exist?

 

I wonder what symbolism is in that.

 

The general public doesn’t look at their coins other than their general size. I’m guessing 99% of the general public doesn’t know that some of their circulating nickels have a keel boat on the reverse.

 

It's kind of ironic that some of the individuals who call people racist for opposing the removal of founding fathers and past presidents portrayed on our money have a problem with them because of their race. "Dead white men" Ahahahahaha. That's what my high school history teacher called them as well.
They weren't soldiers, generals, presidents, and nation builders! They were "dead white men".

 

Glad to see @BooksB4Coins back! And with a salient point.

 

I love the idea of a $25 note! That way there won't be two different $20 notes floating around for a while.

 

Replacing and relocating Jackson with H. Tubman on the 20 would be very symbolic. And I think that is the point. All coins and currency world wide are chock full of symbolic devices covering the fields. Maybe not the date or denomination, but all the rest are symbols of something. I think the window for changing the twenty closed on H. Tubman a few years ago when it was first bandied about. The powers that be today would probably not recognize her in this hyphenated American minorities call the shots world we live in. To offer up a contemporary modern African American woman acceptable to the Amalgimated minorities of America For Change I give you my candidate. Racheal Dolezal. How's that for symbolism ? As Thomas Sowell advised us. "when you correct one inequity, you create two more.

 

That doesn't seem to describe the world I see around me.

 

If she doesn't make the 20, perhaps she could join the parthenage of other admired Americans on U.S. coins. James Thorpe, Jackie Robinson, Sacawagea, Louis Braille, Chrispus Atticks. I think that would be the proper venue. I guess if you wanted a figure that was non controversial we would have to go with the unknown comic.

 

One president put a man on the moon. Another president put men in the little girls room. That's not fiction btw. I must take my leave or x that line.

 

And then we are faced with the question of whether it is a worse "sin" to consider the choice of Tubman for the coin, or the concern it has caused.

 

The symbolism I was deriving was look who’s being relegated to riding on the back. I don’t think anybody should be riding there. If you’re going to be on a bill, you ride on the front.

 

...a what?

 

The best idea since the 20 cent coin...

 

Just stop