Everybody Hates.....Harriet Tubman??!!

Recently Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew  announced the most historically symbolic makeover of American currency in a century, proposing to replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman and the media went nuts. People turned to twitter to lash out their thoughts about this change on the $20 bill.

 
 
What I found to be the most disturbing was the large amount of jokes placed over social media from black people!

I saw posts that stated that Harriet Tubman was too ugly to be on the money, and posts that stated everyone would start paying for things with $10 bills instead of the $20 bill. One female even commented that she felt Rosa Parks should have been on the bill instead.  Let me take a minute to say that although I respect Rosa Parks and all she did that day on the bus along with another black woman, Claudette Colvin who did not receive the same recognition; she was a good woman. However Parks and no other black woman can even be placed in the same sentence as Harriet Tubman because of what she did for black slaves. I can't begin to understand why so many black people would say such idiotic things about not wanting her face on the bill after all she has done to make sure that you even have a place to stand today. She is a woman who took a stand when not many other slaves would. She is a woman who despite the many failed attempts of others, was able to free countless amounts of slaves.

 Let me historically school the unlearned on who Harriet Tubman was.

American abolitionist, humanitarian and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Tubman was born into slavery & escaped while going back & forth to make thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage


This woman was the definition of phenomenal!

To be honest she deserves the $20 bill and so much more recognition than what is just now being given. We as blacks still have a long way to go to earn our 40 acres and a mule that was never received. I am grateful to say that because of women like her and others that followed, we are a lot further than we ever imagined to become.

There is a time and a place to joke but this woman went above and beyond in history and she deserves the utmost respect for her endeavors. She lived to be 91 years old! She was smart and most of all not afraid to take a stand to make changes for others. She was a woman who did not just free herself but when back to try and free others.

This is such a problem in the black community today. We are mentally still enslaved. We no longer have the chains on our ankles and wrists or about our necks; they are wrapped around our minds. Instead of applauding something so great, many began to bash their own history, their own people, as if they were a bunch of Uncle Tom's and then found humor in their own stupidity.

So give her the flowers she should have received many years ago, even if its just a face on a piece of green paper. She deserves it & more!  I truly believe that if she was alive today, she would have said that no form of paper could ever give her the true freedom she had within her mind.

See true freedom comes from being free inside. If you are not free within, then you are still a slave waiting on those Southern cotton fields to be rescued. Never ever growing to learn that your life has more value to it than slaving away for somebody else's dream.