Church Sees Surge in Twenty Dollar Bills in Its Offerings

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  1. Jerome Well-Known Member
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    ...after pledging to overstamp each one with the face of Harriet Tubman:

    Tired of waiting for the Harriet Tubman $20, church starts making its own

    "Tubman was selected as the new face of the $20 bill by the Obama administration in 2016"

    "Last month, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced the Tubman $20 would be delayed until at least 2026....members of a Boston Church decided to skip the wait. In May, Hope Central Church began stamping $20 bills donated to their collections plates with Tubman's face"

    "the number of $20 bills donated has increased since the church began stamping them with Tubman's face. 'Everyone who does this just gets giddy about it....It just feels so good, like a little rebellion.' Defacing currency is prohibited under U.S. law."

    "Hope Central is using a 3D-printed stamp created by artist Dano Wall to mark the bills"

     
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    That might be construed as defacing money but in reality it is refacing :)
     
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    Looks like they defaced Tubman’s image. Childish behavior.
     
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    I hope the secret service puts them in prison.
     
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    UPDATE: Biden Administration Will 'Speed Up' Efforts To Put Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

    But new progressive position says it's an insult to put Tubman on money, amounts to appropriating her image for capitalism!

    Tubman on $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress
    [Brittney Cooper is a professor at Rutgers University and the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower]

    "Putting Tubman on legal tender...is a supreme form of disrespect. The imagery of her face changing hands as people exchange cash for goods and services evokes for me discomfiting scenes of enslaved persons being handed over as payment"

    "If Tubman is going to be linked to conversations on capital, that conversation must be about a redistribution"

    "We don’t need America to put Black women on its money. We need America to put its money on Black women."

    "we need the Harriet Tubman Reparations Act or the Harriet Tubman Abolition of Prisons Act. What we don’t need is Harriet Tubman on twenties."
     
  6. JonC Moderator
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    I'm pretty sure I can make it a Jerry Garcia $20.

    But it is illegal.
     
  7. Salty 20,000 Posts Club
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    has that stopped you in the past?:Thumbsdown