Ha! Howdy my dear. I hope all is well with you :)

Welp, sadly there are still folks in 2016 that may find a back of the bus joke funny. Sad. However, its your joke, image if you'd have to be made to be somewhere you didn't want to be?

#food for thought

They should have put Elenor Roosevelt's picture on a three dollar bill, please to the LGBT crowd.

LoL.

Americans believed that a vastly powerful British fleet and army had sailed for New Orleans (Jackson himself thought 25,000 troops were coming), and most expected the worst. The news of victory, one man recalled, "came upon the country like a clap of thunder in the clear azure vault of the firmament, and traveled with electromagnetic velocity, throughout the confines of the land."[59] The battle boosted the reputation of Andrew Jackson and helped to propel him ultimately to the White House. The anniversary of the battle was celebrated as a NATIONAL HOLIDAY for many years, and continues to be commemorated in south Louisiana.

In honor of Jackson, the newly organized Louisiana Historical Association dedicated its new Memorial Hall facility on January 8, 1891, the 76th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans.[60]

A federal park was established in 1907 to preserve the battlefield; today it features a monument and is part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.

The 8th of January became a traditional American fiddle tune, honoring the date of the battle. More than a century later, the melody was used by Jimmie Driftwood to write the song "The Battle of New Orleans", which was a hit for Johnny Horton and Lonnie Donegan.

Andrew Jackson Who?

That's " President Andrew Jackson"

LONNIE DONEGAN
The Battle of New Orleans: http://youtu.be/ZtGI9z0L2bg/ 03:07

Well I for one applauded the decision. Our country has been built on a lot of hard work. We don't like to talk about the dark forgotten history of our country, because we feel, well we didn't do it.

Our country is hurting itself, by not dealing with this dark past. Putting a hero who ran the freedom trains, that put escaped African slaves on the path to freedom,, well it's a start.
Thanks USGOV.

And a start can be good. Some of us like to stick to tradition and don't do well with change. Very well stated

...lol..and I thought all the new money that they printed that resembled Monopoly money was "off color"...it's kinda sad that they are doing this...it's almost an insult to people of color...I mean if you think about it..currency is losing its value by the minute...now that it's about worthless they want to put a black lady on it..?...please note that I am not insulting people of color...just insulting the idea...

Damage has already been done, hence... "Black Lady" as you would prefer to call her. Smh.

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* Americans and their colour pigment ideals ?

** "Kindlightheart" Is correct! Great leaders of social vision endeavoring change and equal enlightenment for all people.
* The U.S. money printers new policy.

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* It takes two, too tangle, hence the historical " straw man ".

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434360/harriet-tubman-20-bill-change-honors-american-hero

What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman

by Eli Lehrer April 21, 2016 11:33 AM @elilehrerdc

Harriet Tubman is a good choice to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. Jackson, the first Democratic president, is exactly the sort of overheated, pompous populist that has tended to screw up the American political system. His demotion to the back of the bill is long overdue. But before we act to raise Tubman’s stature to the point that she is memorialized on commonly used currency, it behooves Americans to understand her role in our common history. It’s a lot more interesting than the description of her as an “Underground Railroad conductor” that appears in my son’s elementary-school materials and many popular accounts of her life. In fact, Harriett Tubman was a gun-toting, Jesus-loving spy who blazed the way for women to play a significant role in military and political affairs. Indeed, her work on the Underground Railroad was mostly a prelude to her real achievements. Born into slavery as Araminta Ross, Tubman knew the slave system’s inhumanity firsthand: She experienced the savage beatings and family destruction that were par for the course. She eventually escaped and, like most who fled, freed herself largely by her own wits.

She later went back south — always carrying a gun she wasn’t afraid to use — to help guide her own family and many others out of the plantations. The courage and will that this took is difficult to fathom. But she’s really a secondary figure in the history of the Underground Railroad. Historians estimate that she led 300 or so people to freedom, while figures like William Sill and Levi Coffin helped bring freedom to thousands. This isn’t to say that Tubman is a minor figure. To the contrary, what she did during the Civil War secures her an important place in history. The Union, fighting a war mostly on southern soil, desperately needed good intelligence. Tubman’s exploits on the Underground Railroad, quick wits, mastery of stealth, knowledge of local geography, and personal bravery made her a near-perfect scout and spy. She could often “hide” in plain sight, since white-supremacist southerners probably were not inclined to consider a small African-American woman a threat.

Her quasi-memoir Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (told to Sarah Bradford and written in the third person) explains how things worked. While African Americans were suspicious — often rightly — of Union soldiers, they were willing to trust Tubman. “To Harriet they would tell anything,” Bradford writes. “It became quite important that she should accompany expeditions going up the rivers, or into unexplored parts of the country, to control and get information from those whom they took with them as guides.” Tubman was one of the most valuable field-intelligence assets the Union Army had. She had hundreds of intelligence contacts and could establish new ones — particularly among African Americans — when nobody else could.

During one of her scouting missions along the Combahee River, she became the first woman and one of the first African Americans to command a significant number of U.S. troops in combat. The raid she organized and helped to command freed far more enslaved people than her decades of work on the Underground Railroad. She also was a strong advocate of allowing African Americans into the Union Army. She knew Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the almost entirely African-American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment — the unit at the center of the 1989 film Glory. A (probably apocryphal) legend even has it that she cooked his last meal before the heroic assault in which he and much of his regiment perished. In her “retirement” — she never really stopped working until she became ill at the very end of her life — Tubman remained a political presence. A friend of Secretary of State William H. Seward, she settled in his hometown of Auburn, N.Y., on land he sold her. There, she helped to build both a church (she was devoutly religious) and a privately run retirement home. She also fought for women’s suffrage, supported Republican politicians, and advocated for fair treatment of black Civil War veterans, which they rarely received. In short, Harriet Tubman was a black, Republican, gun-toting, veterans’ activist, with ninja-like spy skills and strong Christian beliefs. She probably wouldn’t have an ounce of patience for the obtuse posturing of some of the tenured radicals hanging around Ivy League faculty lounges. But does she deserve a place on our money? Hell yeah.

...I have never been PC...and I am not white so I know all to well what it is like to be picked on for the color of my skin...tried to scrub my color off every time I took a bath as a child...I guess I should have said African American woman...my bad..all that scrubbing gave me tough skin..too bad everyone is so sensitive these days..even my African American friends don't get offended by being referred to as black...But in 2020 when the new money comes to be..guess we will know its worth then...the picture might be the only part with any value...

** Harriet Tubman is a good choice to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. Jackson, the first Democratic president, is exactly the sort of overheated, pompous populist that has tended to screw up the American political system.

...I have never been PC...and I am not white so I know all to well what it is like to be picked on for the color of my skin...tried to scrub my color off every time I took a bath as a child...I guess I should have said African American woman...my bad..all that scrubbing gave me tough skin..too bad everyone is so sensitive these days..even my African American friends don't get offended by being referred to as black...But in 2020 when the new money comes to be..guess we will know its worth then...the picture might be the only part with any value...
if it's any condolence..thanks to conrads input I have an idea of who she is now..more than what I know about who's on the twenty at this time...and she is one to be admired...even if the money's funny..

He hated banks

i just read that article...

seemed like something just piss the blacks off...

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/video-why-the-central-bank-dropped-jackson-on-the-20-kept-hamilton-on-the-10_042016

mightymoe's link "struggle between the faction that wanted to kill the private central bank in America"
*Banking is more powerful then any army, we did away with private army's.
* Banking like the military, need to be in the Nation's interest.
* Bank reform (monetary reform) is underway in Iceland and is an uphill struggle because of the power bankers (rich) have.

Hi