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irisblue

(34,405 posts) Tue May 21, 2019, 11:13 PM May 2019

Harriet Tubman Mural in Baltimore & a little girl

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) Tweeted:
Amazing photo

A little girl touches Harriet Tubman’s hand

This is a new mural on the side of the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center.

Original Photo: https://t.co/ZGJQG766zS https://t.co/Lryj5AVGWl

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Harriet Tubman Byway (@Tubman_Byway) Tweeted:
@PattyBeamer @yashar Patty, the mural was still in process when this photo was taken, so the hand wasn't painted yet. The mural is now finished and the hand is filled in. https://t.co/DJzsIkF7O2

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The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) Tweeted:
A Maryland artist's new Harriet Tubman mural is already drawing an emotional response far and wide. https://t.co/cPiKKgBRmf https://t.co/bHGTOXowk5

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Harriet Tubman Mural in Baltimore & a little girl (Original Post) irisblue May 2019 OP

Beautiful Control-Z May 2019 #1

It is gorgeous. So well painted and so, so well deserved. MLAA May 2019 #2

Breathtaking. sheshe2 May 2019 #3

Beautifully said, she! SunSeeker May 2019 #6

We all would, should we be given the opportunity... NotHardly May 2019 #4

So much symbolism in that gorgeous mural! SunSeeker May 2019 #5

The mural is stunning. brer cat May 2019 #7

Trump's Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Locutusofborg May 2019 #8

Control-Z

(15,684 posts)

1. Beautiful

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2019, 11:19 PM

May 2019

and inspiring!

MLAA

(18,664 posts)

2. It is gorgeous. So well painted and so, so well deserved.

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Wed May 22, 2019, 12:02 AM

May 2019

sheshe2

(88,097 posts)

3. Breathtaking.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2019, 12:19 AM

May 2019

This could be written for her.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Perhaps a few words changed, yet she is a Statue of Liberty.

Beautiful, irisblue.

Thank you.

SunSeeker

(54,022 posts)

6. Beautifully said, she!

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Wed May 22, 2019, 01:54 AM

May 2019

NotHardly

(1,346 posts)

4. We all would, should we be given the opportunity...

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2019, 01:31 AM

May 2019

but in this administration, they would wish to pit us against each other so they might harm us all. It, and what they do, is literally the first rule in the book of fascism First they divide and then they make a meal of the next.

SunSeeker

(54,022 posts)

5. So much symbolism in that gorgeous mural!

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2019, 01:34 AM

May 2019

Love the wall broken down under her foot, her strong hand reaching to carry you over it to freedom.

Damn.

brer cat

(26,477 posts)

7. The mural is stunning.

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Wed May 22, 2019, 01:03 PM

May 2019

The little girl touching her hand is powerful.

Locutusofborg

(542 posts)

8. Trump's Treasury Secretary Mnuchin

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Wed May 22, 2019, 06:40 PM

May 2019

Has cancelled putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.

In 2016, the Treasury Department said it would replace former President Andrew Jackson’s image on the front of the bill with that of Tubman by 2020, along with redesigns of the $5 and $10 bill.

President Donald Trump has called the inclusion of Tubman on the $20 bill an example of “pure political correctness.”

As a presidential candidate, Trump suggested Tubman would be better-suited for the $2 bill, a note that is not widely circulated.

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