I am delighted that fan love for the hip-hop Alexander Hamilton has saved his image on the $10 bill. At least in part. There was also a push to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20, and you've probably seen that today (April 20), the US Treasury is announcing that Harriet Tubman will indeed replace Jackson.
Great choice!
Not that I care about Hamilton per se. But Andrew Jackson was the person who should have been replaced all along, slave owner*, Indian Remover, and murderer (or "duellist") that he was.
Except... wait. Literally, wait.
It won't happen until 2030? Fourteen more years? Really?
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RIGHT > > >
Lin-Manuel Miranda at a rehearsal of his play Hamilton,
an "audacious hip-hop retelling of the life of the nation’s first Treasury secretary. "
Now it's won a Pulitzer Prize!
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* Twelve presidents owned slaves at some point during their lives--including, of course, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Obviously history is full of twisty stuff like that:
nobody's perfect. (Some of the presidents freed their slaves before they even became presidents.)
I just want to see some imperfect women represented too!
Great choice!
Barbara Ortiz Howard, left, and Susan Ades Stone, the women behind Women on 20s, an organization pushing for a woman on the $20 bill, stand before art by Belgian Yann Guitton. |
Except... wait. Literally, wait.
It won't happen until 2030? Fourteen more years? Really?
_____________________
RIGHT > > >
Lin-Manuel Miranda at a rehearsal of his play Hamilton,
an "audacious hip-hop retelling of the life of the nation’s first Treasury secretary. "
Now it's won a Pulitzer Prize!
________________________________________
* Twelve presidents owned slaves at some point during their lives--including, of course, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Obviously history is full of twisty stuff like that:
nobody's perfect. (Some of the presidents freed their slaves before they even became presidents.)
I just want to see some imperfect women represented too!
Saw they are talking new designs by 2020, then a gradual phase in of the new bills.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the gif, Harriet Booting Andrew...or maybe I should do a t shirt.
ReplyDeleteJackson looks to stay on the back of the bill. "Get to the back of the bill!"
ReplyDeleteI hope they keep changing the faces on the money.
Thanks, bink, Sparker, & Zhoen.
ReplyDeleteA T-shirt! A T-shirt!