A couple of weeks ago me and my brother-in-law were at the dinner table talking about current issues. We discussed the recent desecration of historical images and artifacts. We talked about mobs of rioters toppling over and destroying statues of Christopher Columbus, Junipero Serra and others. About how the confederate flag is being villainized for its history.
"While all this is going on the native Americans are hardly even mentioned," I said to him.
Despite that the native Americans were the first inhabitants of these lands, they are being tossed to the curb by the media while it props up the African Americans into the national and even the world lime-light.
"Did you know there were talks about removing the image of Andrew Jackson from the twenty dollar bill and replacing it with an image of Harriet Tubman?" I asked him.
I don't believe he knew about it, so I talked to him about it.
Andrew Jackson was an Indian hater. He was around during the time when the United States was having its Indian wars. Indians and white colonizers had being fighting for quite some time. And during one of those incidents some Indians killed members of Jackson's family. This imbued Jackson with hate and desire for revenge against Indians. During his presidency he was responsible for the slaughter of many Indians.
So when any discussion is taking place about replacing Andrew Jackson's image, the native American makes a much better replacement than Harriet Tubman. Andrew Jackson was known as Indian Killer, not African Killer. So if his image is to be replace on the twenty dollar bill it should be replaced by a native American not an African American.
Last week I found this article online: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/28/opinions/why-isnt-harriet-tubman-on-20-bill-yet-coates/index.html
I felt it was apropos to make this post in reply to that article.
So, Why isn't Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill Yet? BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T BELONG THERE, THAT'S WHY!
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