Almost on cue, as soon as the news that former anti-slavery activist and women’s rights hero Harriet Tubman would be replacing notorious ethnic cleanser President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the internet steeled itself for the outpouring of anger and complaints coming from upset whites. Excited liberals made some excellent jokes, while white supremacists and racists in general were very displeased.
The right-wing seems to have two reactions to this new development. The first is to blame “Obama” for “pandering” to African-Americans and blackwashing history, discarding the value of Jackson’s military victories and praising him for organizing genocide against Native Americans. The second is to try to twist the narrative, painting Tubman as a “black Republican” and Jackson as a “Democrat,” even though of obviously the natures of the parties have not remained constant over the past two hundred years.
Here’s the best and the worst:
Prediction: we’re gonna get a real Underground Wailroad of racists pissed about the Harriet Tubman news
— Antoine Linguine (@aklingus) April 20, 2016
i cannot wait to bathe in the forthcoming tsunami of well-meaning, carefully-crafted anti-harriet tubman takes from concerned white patriots
— Greg Howard (@greghoward88) April 20, 2016
It’s gonna be real awkward the first time a redneck has to use the Harriet Tubman $20 to pay for his confederate flag
— CallHimRenny (@callhimrenny) April 20, 2016
It’s a sad day for racist cocaine addicts. #HarrietTubman
— Lance Burson (@lanceburson) April 20, 2016
When you’re racist but the ATM will only give you bills with Harriet Tubman on them pic.twitter.com/aiI8Yb4MGa
— Ira Madison III (@ira) April 20, 2016
— Ira Madison III (@ira) April 20, 2016
Y'all, Miss Harriet Tubman has these racist Whites FUMING. pic.twitter.com/HFFrg9Er89
— form⚓️tion (@awwwchris) April 20, 2016
Pretty disappointed about this Harriet Tubman news. As a white man, I sorta felt like money was “my thing.”
— Jesse Thorn (@JesseThorn) April 20, 2016
https://t.co/jcOH62E583
This just aint right. Femnism, soacialism and afffirmative action. All against God #whitegenocide— Dathan Scroggs (@DathanScroggs) April 20, 2016
Harriet Tubman is a nigger.
— Jared Taylor Swift (@JaredTSwift) April 20, 2016
Harriet Tubman ain’t die for you knee grows to be throwing her face all over the strip club lol
— Cult of Personality (@Phranchize19) April 20, 2016
