Harriet Tubman is your potential replacement for Jackson on the $20 bill.

[Sylvain]

 

[actaeon277]

And the rewriting of history continues.
Pretty soon, the Nazis will have been defeated by the U.N. armed with subpoenas.

Huh? Am I missing something? What rewriting?

Some of you may remember this controversy....

They wanted the artist to put a "lantern" in her hand instead...The artist refused...

Tubman mural with musket is rejected


Associated Black Charities decides artwork conveys wrong image for office


June 14, 2000|By Jamie Stiehm | Jamie Stiehm,SUN STAFF
Saying it doesn't reflect their image, the Associated Black Charities board unanimously rejected last night a contentious mural of Harriet Tubman carrying a musket, which was intended for its downtown building at Cathedral and Chase streets.
Mural artist Mike Alewitz and staffers from Baltimore Clayworks, which commissioned the work, searched yesterday for "appropriately visible" sites and walls in the city for the larger-than-life image, which was originally planned to stand 25 feet tall on a wall facing Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
"It needs to be a good public wall," Alewitz said.
"It's fine if it's not a good fit," Deborah Bedwell, executive director of Clayworks, said before last night's vote. Clayworks, a Mount Washington nonprofit, chose Alewitz to portray the Underground Railroad leader in five works to be installed in Maryland as part of a Mid-Atlantic Arts Council project. She said his work centers on social justice themes.

The musket in the mural design stirred an outcry about historical truth vs. contemporary reality.
Some suggested that Alewitz's design, showing Tubman holding a musket as she symbolically parts a Red Sea and leads slaves to freedom, condones gun violence.
The issue triggered debate about whether it was appropriate for Associated Black Charities' public wall in a city that records at least 300 homicides a year.
"It has started the community discussing slavery, race and history," said Donna Jones Stanley, the Associated executive director, who recommended against Alewitz's design.
Since 1985, the Associated has been a leading presence in the black community, giving nearly $6 million in grants to programs benefiting the greater Baltimore area.
It is agreed Tubman carried a gun for protection, but Stanley declared, "It is not historically correct. She carried a pistol, not a rifle. It's his vision, but it's our wall."
A few urged Alewitz to substitute a staff for the musket. He refused last week, saying, "I will not disarm Harriet Tubman. ... There was nothing safe about her." Phillip Sterling and Rayford Logan wrote in "Four Took Freedom" that Tubman made 11 trips from Maryland to Canada from 1852 to 1857, leading about 300 to freedom. "Her most famous trip concerned a passenger who panicked and wanted to turn back. Tubman was afraid if he left he would be tortured and would tell all he knew. The unwilling passenger changed his mind when Tubman pointed a gun at his head and said `dead folks tell no tales.'"
Said Alewitz: "Nothing will stop this historic endeavor. Harriet Tubman will live on the walls of Maryland."

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[BehindBlueI's]

Can you make her blue, wading in a ball pit at Chuck-E-Cheese, and have some people lounging in a Lazy River ride near the bottom? Oh, and throw in a maze that you can't solve and some red something or other. Artsy people love red something or others.

The INGO controversy would be the poor trigger finger discipline shown in the smurf-in-a-ball-pit version.

 

[indiucky]

Huh? Am I missing something? What rewriting?

The folks that commissioned the mural asked the artist to replace the musket with a staff...They pointed out (correctly so) that she actually carried a pistol and he pointed out (correctly so) that no one had a problem with her parting the Red Sea so why care whether it was a musket or a pistol...

Point is that Harriet Tubman packed heat.....She arguably had the most dangerous job in the US at that time....She needed heat....


If they put that design on a T Shirt I would buy one...It kind of looks like a mid 80's Grateful dead show T Shirt....

 

[HoughMade]

Can you make her blue, wading in a ball pit at Chuck-E-Cheese, and have some people lounging in a Lazy River ride near the bottom? Oh, and throw in a maze that you can't solve and some red something or other. Artsy people love red something or others.

The INGO controversy would be the poor trigger finger discipline shown in the smurf-in-a-ball-pit version.

I can see a controversy about the use of the term "Lazy River".

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Ya know, I make a "homeless handy" comment to try and get a laugh, and get nitpicked on the details. But, if you must know...

$20 seems kinda steep for a handy from a homeless guy, I bet you could talk him down to $10.

My guy maintains great eye contact and has surprisingly soft hands. Well worth the extra ten bucks.

A bottle of mad dog 20/20 is about $8.00

Amateur mistake. You can't give him the booze, he'll have a couple swigs first to calm his nerves. The results are much better when he still has the shakes.

 

[Kutnupe14]

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Ah, gotcha.

 

[printcraft]

Dude it was the eighties..."Purple Rain" and "The Color Purple" had just come out...Purple WAS the new black...

Jame Brown even had a minor hit with a reboot of his classic "Say it Loud"

"Say it loud.
I'm purple and I'm proud.
Say it Loud.
I'm Purple and I'm proud. One more time
Say it loud.
I'm purple and I'm proud. Huh.."

))

holy crap that was prophetic considering today's events.

 

[Trigger Time]

This is ****ing stupid. Andrew Jackson should be on the front. I'm so over all the ******* and bleeding hearts in this country. Can't wait till **** gets fixed and some people that need it get kicked in the face

 

[Dead Duck]

This is ****ing stupid. Andrew Jackson should be on the front. I'm so over all the ******* and bleeding hearts in this country. Can't wait till **** gets fixed and some people that need it get kicked in the face

Oh No No-
You need to be more tolerant of all the ****ing bleeding heart liberal p****** in this country.

 

[speedracer302]

This is ****ing stupid. Andrew Jackson should be on the front. I'm so over all the ******* and bleeding hearts in this country. Can't wait till **** gets fixed and some people that need it get kicked in the face

Careful! You are not being very PC... This is an important step for the country. (sarcasm!)

Not only do we get a woman on paper money, a slave owner has been removed!

I agree that this it total BS and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

 

[Kutnupe14]

This is ****ing stupid. Andrew Jackson should be on the front. I'm so over all the ******* and bleeding hearts in this country. Can't wait till **** gets fixed and some people that need it get kicked in the face

It's not that deep. People have been replaced regularly on U.S. currency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_United_States_banknotes

 

[jamil]

This is ****ing stupid. Andrew Jackson should be on the front. I'm so over all the ******* and bleeding hearts in this country. Can't wait till **** gets fixed and some people that need it get kicked in the face

WTF? I'm good with a ****ing ******* Democrat being kicked off the currency in favor of a gun toting Republican.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

WTF? I'm good with a ****ing ******* Democrat being kicked off the currency in favor of a gun toting Republican.

I dunno...he had at least one redeeming quality. I forget what case it was on but once, he told the court to go blow their decision out of their ***escand go enforce it themselves. I kind of like that.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I dunno...he had at least one redeeming quality. I forget what case it was on but once, he told the court to go blow their decision out of their ***escand go enforce it themselves. I kind of like that.

If I owned a studio in Hollywood, now is the time to do an Andy Jackson movie. Regardless of the type of person he was, he most certainly had an interesting life.

 

[cobber]

I dunno...he had at least one redeeming quality. I forget what case it was on but once, he told the court to go blow their decision out of their ***escand go enforce it themselves. I kind of like that.

Worcester v. Georgia (1832). SCOTUS basically held that only fed govt. was empowered to deal with Indian nations. More or less led to the Trail of Tears, or at least indirectly justified federal removal. Ironic. SCOTUS 'protection' of Cherokee gave feds license to eject.

Kind of the Obama of his day.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

If I owned a studio in Hollywood, now is the time to do an Andy Jackson movie. Regardless of the type of person he was, he most certainly had an interesting life.

I'd say you're right. He led an interesting life...much different than any of us did growing up. I could see how it could be made into quite an entertaining movie.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Worcester v. Georgia (1832). SCOTUS basically held that only fed govt. was empowered to deal with Indian nations. More or less led to the Trail of Tears, or at least indirectly justified federal removal. Ironic. SCOTUS 'protection' of Cherokee gave feds license to eject.

Kind of the Obama of his day.

I was thinking it had something to do with financial stuff. But it's been awhile.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Just read some really good tasteless jokes regarding the bill change. I'd even share them if we didn't have so many SJWs around here.

 

[churchmouse]

Just read some really good tasteless jokes regarding the bill change. I'd even share them if we didn't have so many SJWs around here.

Come on man. You know how it works.
PM them on request.......