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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,244 posts) Mon Nov 11, 2024, 07:41 PM Nov 11

Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony

Source: AP

CHURCH CREEK, Md. (AP) — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.

Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s National Guard.

Gov. Wes Moore called the occasion not just a great day for Tubman’s home state but for all of the U.S.

“Today, we celebrate a soldier and a person who earned the title of veteran,” Moore said. “Today we celebrate one of the greatest authors of the American story.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/harriet-tubman-general-maryland-veterans-day-004ad9d09e8ab7ec2f89407618069a23

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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 11 OP

I do wish Presidents Biden or Obama had managed to get her on the $20 The Mouth Nov 11 #1

Yeez --- Earthrise Nov 11 #4

As of now, it's still happening Polybius Nov 11 #6

Even the Republicans I know really support this. The Mouth Nov 12 #7

👏 Deuxcents Nov 11 #2

I'm wondering if Trump will try to rename Veterans Day to Suckers and Losers Day SupportSanity Nov 11 #3

A fitting gesture. TomSlick Nov 11 #5

The Mouth

(3,285 posts)

1. I do wish Presidents Biden or Obama had managed to get her on the $20

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 07:45 PM

Nov 11

Every time I have to look at Jackon's fucking face and remember that this guy was Himmler's role model for lebensrum by what he did to the First Peoples....

Earthrise

(15,704 posts)

4. Yeez ---

Reply to The Mouth (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 08:35 PM

Nov 11

Jackon's fucking face and remember that this guy was Himmler's role model for lebensrum by what he did to the First Peoples....

I knew the Nazi’s studied reservations/concentration camps and Jim Crow laws, but I wasn’t aware of the Jackson connection.

Polybius

(17,798 posts)

6. As of now, it's still happening

Reply to The Mouth (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 09:20 PM

Nov 11

Contrary to the many speculations online, the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is on track to debut to the public in 2030. In an exclusively obtained internal Black History Month message sent from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to the entire department, Yellen reaffirmed the department’s commitment to ensuring that our currency is more inclusive in representation.

“We know that putting Dr. Angelou on the quarter is just the beginning of the work ahead to make our currency and coinage reflect the totality of the diversity of this country, including placing Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill,” Yellen said in the internal note. ‘This Black History Month – the third February of the pandemic – I believe that we as a Department, and as a country, are more cognizant of where we’ve been.”

In a flurry of excitement over the Maya Angelou quarters, many people questioned why a quarter was produced within months of being announced, while the highly anticipated Tubman $20 note is still not in circulation.

https://thegrio.com/2022/02/13/us-treasury-harriet-tubman-20-bill/

The Mouth

(3,285 posts)

7. Even the Republicans I know really support this.

Reply to Polybius (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 12, 2024, 03:07 PM

Nov 12

A cousin who has always been a conservative (although I doubt they voted for Trump, they were in a deep red state so not like it mattered, but a pretty typical moderate Republican) said "Hell Yeah, a Black gun totingRepublican woman !" Kind of teasing but certainly happy that the asshole Jackson was going to be off of it.