Harriet Tubman was a victim of white privilege and this should be the lesson taught to all.
The underground railroad was created by rich elite north white men to give the appearance that they were doing something.
The reality is none of these rich elites put themselves in any actual danger or jeopardy to 'free' anyone.
They recruited black and poor white people to take all the risk, and it was a HUGE risk, being caught participating in the railroad was immediate execution.
So while the rich elites held cocktail parties and bragged to their other rich friends how they were helping the negro to stroke their ego and virtue signal to their community ACTUAL black and poor white people were murdered and the bodies left to rot doing the work.
This Tubman on the 20 is just another way for the elite to walk on the backs of actual GIANTS who really took risks.
Harriet Tubman was a victim of white privilege and this should be the lesson taught to all.
The underground railroad was created by rich elite north white men to give the appearance that they were doing something.
The reality is none of these rich elites put themselves in any actual danger or jeopardy to 'free' anyone.
They recruited black and poor white people to take all the risk, and it was a HUGE risk, being caught participating in the railroad was immediate execution.
So while the rich elites held cocktail parties and bragged to their other rich friends how they were helping the negro to stroke their ego and virtue signal to their community ACTUAL black and poor white people were murdered and the bodies left to rot doing the work.
This Tubman on the 20 is just another way for the elite to walk on the backs of actual GIANTS who really took risks.
True, but good luck selling that!
I grew up on an Army base in Italy in the 80s, this was considered an education back then.
Damn. You had a very rare and based history teacher. I think by the time I reached high school they were done teaching history.
I graduated in '85. I feel like you're older than that.
With my kids I had to ask them, "Was the Berlin Wall built to keep people in or out?" They had no idea.