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Apr. 20th, 2016 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingHarriet Tubman to be on the American $20 bill.
This is awesome!
Of course, there's a cynical part of me that says "oh, of COURSE they're letting a black woman in, now that many people don't use cash", and another cynical part that says "sticking the woman who 'stole' herself and a great many other people on a symbol of capitalist commerce is certainly an odd look" - but the cynical parts can have their say and I'll still be happy about HARRIET FRIGGING TUBMAN replacing Andrew Jackson.
This is awesome!
Of course, there's a cynical part of me that says "oh, of COURSE they're letting a black woman in, now that many people don't use cash", and another cynical part that says "sticking the woman who 'stole' herself and a great many other people on a symbol of capitalist commerce is certainly an odd look" - but the cynical parts can have their say and I'll still be happy about HARRIET FRIGGING TUBMAN replacing Andrew Jackson.
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Date: 2016-04-20 08:37 pm (UTC)<3!
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Date: 2016-04-21 01:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-04-20 10:05 pm (UTC)But... they're going to keep Jackson on one side and Harriet Tubman on the other side, which is like WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP A GENOCIDAL SLAVE OWNER ON ONE SIDE AND WOMAN WHO WAS FREEING SLAVES ON THE OTHER, FUCK.
At least that's the word right now?
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Date: 2016-04-20 10:29 pm (UTC)-- Steve likes life's little moments of delicious irony.
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Date: 2016-04-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-04-21 06:53 pm (UTC)