Whew — I saw Harriet Tubman trending and for a moment I thought she had died
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) May 12, 2015
So the voters have spoken, and “my” candidate won! Per the Washington Post:
A group that wants to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and replace him with a woman has, after months of collecting votes, chosen a successor: Harriet Tubman.
Tubman, an abolitionist who is remembered most for her role as a conductor in the “Underground Railroad,” was one of four finalists for the nod from a group of campaigners calling themselves “Women on 20s.” The campaign started earlier this year and has since inspired bills in the House and the Senate…
“Our paper bills are like pocket monuments to great figures in our history,” Women on 20s Executive Director Susan Ades Stone said in an e-mailed statement. “Our work won’t be done until we’re holding a Harriet $20 bill in our hands in time for the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020.”…
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced a bill in April that would ask the Treasury Department to convene a panel of citizens to discuss the issue of putting a woman’s face on America’s paper money. The panel’s findings would then go to the secretary of the Treasury. “That’s the way it was done back in the 1920s,” Shaheen told The Post last month.
Shaheen also noted that her staffers spoke to the Treasury Department about the potential cost of changing a bill’s portrait. The department makes minor design changes to paper money every seven to 10 years for security reasons, the staffers found. The $20 is “overdue for that redesign,” Shaheen said. Her office concluded that changing the portrait as part of one of those redesigns means there’s “not a lot of cost involved” in putting a woman on the bill…
As the expression goes: If not now, when?
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Apart from daydream believing, what’s on the agenda for the day?
tybee
fuck andrew jackson
OzarkHillbilly
Talkin’ bout my girl…
raven
@tybee: Trying like mad to get an offshore ti next week! I see than hand surgeon today to get the skinny on my finger. I don’t think I can hack a bottom fishing trip where I have to drag stuff up all day!
Botsplainer
“Harriet Tubman is great and all, but my girl Beyoncé totally deserves this honor”.
– Kanye
geg6
She was my pick, too! Yay!
OzarkHillbilly
Hyon Yong Chol, who heads the isolated country’s military, was purged and then executed by firing squad with an antiaircraft gun, watched by hundreds of people, South Korean media reported on Wednesday, citing the NIS’s comments to a parliamentary panel.
Hyon, who spoke at a security conference in Moscow in April, was said to have shown disrespect to Kim by dozing off at a military event, media said, citing the agency briefing.
Mustang Bobby
Cue the RWNM that Harriet Tubman would be an affirmative action hire and that Andrew Jackson is being displaced because he’s a white dude and they’re so persecuted.
@raven: Best wishes for everything, and tight lines if it happens.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly:
I guess they didn’t want to bury him, either.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: Oh I’m going to fish no matter what, it’s the offshore that will be the issue.
thx!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
So when exactly are we sending Seth Rogan over there?
ThresherK
At a community billboard near me I saw posters for
And
I was sooooooo tempted to write Jr! after the last one.
Baud
@raven:
Good luck with the doctor.
Mustang Bobby
@ThresherK: I’m waiting for the Jr. versions of The Vagina Monologues and The Puppetry of the Penis.
Aleta
@raven: will be watching for your report on how your appointment goes. Hope all goes well.
Aleta
@geg6: likewise!
raven
Thanks for the MD wishes. My bet, from the google investigation, is that they will want to do a needle biopsy.
raven
Joe is going on and on about the US needing infrastructure work!
ThresherK
@raven: You need something like Ye Olde Kings’ hunting trip, where all they did was shoot, while others beat the bushes for game and retrieved it. Of course you’d have to get there by some kind of waterborne sedan chair.
Is it bad symbology to wish you “thumbs up” on the procedure?
OzarkHillbilly
They take Sex education in Kyrgyzstan serious.
raven
@ThresherK: Ha, I once took a big boat out of Charleston that had electric reels! The weird thing is that none of the headboats seem to have reels that you crank with the left and pull with the right.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: I believe there was a bill that would address those infrastructure concerns. I’m trying to think what Joe’s fellow Republicans did to advance that bill. Oh, I remember they didn’t bring it up for a vote in the House. Good luck with the doc.
ThresherK
@raven: I’m a lefty who did some kid fishing with my Dad, and gave it up early because it wasn’t something for me. One possible portent when I was perhaps six years old: I took literally my Dad’s advice of “throw it back” after nabbing a small sunfish. It probably sailed 40 feet from the dock in the air, and that fish had some story to tell when it reached home.
Totally cannot remember if I turned the rod upside-down or was juuuust ambidextrous enough to not care that the reel-turning thingy was on my wrong side.
Bystander
Why is it I keep thinking that the Repubs will do something to block replacing a Visage of the Old South with that of a renegade, lawless NiKlang?
raven
@ThresherK: It “really” doesn’t matter for that kind of fishing. With the trip I’m talking about you go 50 miles offshore and fish on the bottom in hundreds of feet of water. To get down there you use 8oz weights. When the weight hits the bottom and you feel a bite you crank the sucker up and, because of the weight, you sometimes can’t even tell if you have a fish. If you hit an amberjack or grouper it can really test your strength. With my hand injury I am worried that I won’t be able to do that for 8 hours. If they had a reel that I cranked with my left and pulled with my right I’d be much better off.
ThresherK
@raven: The deepwater stuff is so over my head (haha); thanks for the primer. I’m a landlubber who can’t imagine an 8-oz sinker, and probably caught very few fish over that size.
(Now I should go read “The Old Man and the Sea” or somesuch for my manly bonafides.)
JPL
@raven: Did Mika ask him if he supported infrastructure spending when he was in Congress?
Good luck today
PurpleGirl
Raven: Good luck with the MD visit today. Hope you can sort out the fishing trip so that you are comfortable and not hurting your hand/finger.
As to other stuff: Saw a commercial for Wolf Hall on Broadway. I’m seriously considering seeing it. I haven’t done a Broadway show/Ballet/Chamber Concert in ages, not since I lost the job. So I need to decide if I want to see Parts 1 & 2 on different days or on the same day (matinee and evening performances, 2.5 hours between). Have to check the seating charts for the Winter Garden Theatre — it’s not one I know — as to the best place for me to sit.
satby
@raven: hope it all goes well, and that you get cleared to go fishing!
Burt Hutt
Is there anything worse than discovering that a high school crush is married to and has a kid with Jonah Fuqing Goldberg?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Gavora
Germy Shoemangler
Interesting thoughts on Andrew Jackson, from notesironbound blogspot:
PurpleGirl
@Germy Shoemangler: Thank you. Excellent piece and so confoundingly relevant to modern Republican politics.
raven
@satby: Thanks. I’ll be fishing no matter what the diagnoses. We have a place at the beach for a week and there is no way I don’t fish.
Germy Shoemangler
@PurpleGirl: I know “history repeats itself” is a cliché, but the more I read about the past the more I see it’s the same characters, the same people strutting around doing and saying the same stuff. The only things that change are the clothes, hairstyles and technologies.
Germy Shoemangler
And now….
Puppies!
mai naem mobile
This reminds me of some Real Housewives of Atlanta episode where they were at an underground railroad site/museum and one of the women kept.on asking where the train station/tracks were because the.bimbo thought it was a real railroad. It was hilarious. Most of the women on RHOA appear to be black and.you would.think they would.know.history like that. No,I don’t watch the show’ I saw the.clip on some site.
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
I read a biography of Jackson recently and came away with the same connection.
In substance, the Dems are now the party of Lincoln and the GOP is now the party of Jackson.
Germy Shoemangler
I seem to remember Zogby throwing a tantrum back in 2004 or so when he was accused of skewing his polling in favor of Bush.
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud: And yet conservatives I encounter refuse to acknowledge that historical shift. They instead argue “MLK was a republican! Lincoln was republican and Senator KKK Byrd was democrap” etc
Tommy
@Germy Shoemangler:
I’ve mentioned here my brother married into a very far right family. He asked me the first time we spent the holidays together not to engage and fight with them. For seven years I never have.
I have heard many bizarre things come out of their mouth. Obama isn’t a “real” American. Obama won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance. On and on but I just smile and walk out of the room.
But I lost it on the Ferguson thing. We are only about 40 miles from the place and they were like he deserved to get killed. Not sure why it really pushed my buttons but it did.
I can’t recall the last time I lost my temper but I totally lost it. Maybe it was seven years of pent up rage. I don’t know but they got an ear full.
satby
@Germy Shoemangler: I liked that piece from notesironbound, but it looks like it’s older. Do you have a direct link to it, I scrolled back several weeks and didn’t find it?
Tommy
@mai naem mobile: It does make you wonder doesn’t it. I don’t know where they went to school, and maybe it is because I am a Yankee, but my school taught us in detail about the Underground Railroad. I don’t know, think my school felt it was kind of a historical note that should be mentioned!
Germy Shoemangler
@satby: It’s from January.
http://notesironbound.blogspot.com/2015/01/andrew-jackson-still-lives.html
NotMax
@raven
Something to munch on.
For those who imbibe, some rather potent sinkers. (Judging from the text, someone had a few of these beforehand.)
Tommy
Reading all the stories the day later about Tom Brady. Played a sport at a high level. Golf. I thought for many years I’d make my living doing it. So easy to kick my ball out from behind a tree. Have more clubs in my bag then I should. Use a ball that wasn’t regulation.
But I NEVER did that.
You don’t do these things. You don’t cheat. There are very specific rules and you follow them. It appears Tom didn’t. I feel he should have been suspended for a year.
satby
@Germy Shoemangler: Thanks! I want to share that blog with a good friend who’s also a baseball fan.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning to you!
I don’t think there’s enough coffee in the world to liven me up today!
rikyrah
@Germy Shoemangler:
thank you for this.
Now I want Harriet on the $20 even more.
debbie
@Tommy:
Better he should be publicly shamed and branded (with an asterisk) as the Lance Armstrong of the Pigskin.
One of my brothers lived in Mass. for years and is infuriated at this outrage. Can’t wait to piss hime off at Thanksgiving.
NotMax
Gonna be a burden on banks in the South to reprogram all those ATMs to handle only tens and/or fifties.
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Don’t think folks in the south would care much for the $50 bill either. U.S. Grant.
ETA: Could be worse, they could put Sherman on the fifty. Good morning all, and good night.
rikyrah
Right takes aim at ‘affirmative-action presidents’
05/12/15 12:54 PM—UPDATED 05/12/15 01:02 PM
By Steve Benen
It was probably only a matter of time before the right rolled out the “affirmative-action” argument. Apparently that time is now.
In the new issue of the Weekly Standard, Joseph Epstein suggests Hillary Clinton may become the next president of the United States, but she won’t really deserve it.
Epstein explores his answer to his question over the course of about 3,000 words. The Weekly Standard put this on the cover.
Note the specific timeframe the author relies on. Americans used to elect presidents based on their “intrinsic qualities” – rather than “the accidents of their birth” – right up until that rascally Barack Obama won easily in 2008. In other words, according to this exciting new thesis, George W. Bush’s rise to national power had nothing to do with the circumstances he was born into. He wound up in the White House solely on the basis of his inherent skills and attributes.
The old joke about those who are born on third base and think they hit a triple? It’s funny because quite a few people apparently believe it.
When Americans elect 42 white men to be president, it’s because of their “intrinsic qualities.” If Americans elect an African-American man and a white woman, we’re evidently supposed to believe they’re “affirmative-action presidents” who are “members of a victim group.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/right-takes-aim-affirmative-action-presidents
Tommy
@debbie: Amen to that as well.
I don’t think many folks that didn’t play sports at a high level get that any advantage, just a small one, can be huge.
If I just improved my lie on the golf course, by less than an inch, that might mean 1-2 strokes. Enough every round, I might be playing golf for a living.
I guess what I am saying is the difference between good and great is pretty small when you are operating in that realm. Yes it can be the slight inflation of ball up or down.
rikyrah
Do Michelle Obama’s comments on race resonate with black women? Panel verdict
The first lady has entered into nationwide discussion about race by speaking candidly about her experiences as an African American woman
Danielle Moodie-Mills: Her struggle mirrors many of ours
When First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the graduates of Tuskegee University she did so with a level of realness we’ve come to expect from Flotus, but we also received a glimpse of her very real struggle – which mirrors that of many African Americans.
The jabs that have been taken at her femininity and personality are similar to the kinds that black women have been dealing with for eons. Our bodies literally poked and prodded – never measuring up to the European standard of beauty. Our demeanor questioned as being “sassy”, “angry”, “hostile” etc.
In her speech the first lady gave us insight into how being ridiculed, stereotyped, overlooked and verbally abused by right wing conservatives can take its toll – not just on her and the first family, but on all black Americans who have been wrongly judged and labeled as “thugs”, “troublemakers”, “rioters” and worse, for daring to challenge a system that was created to ensure our silence and submission.
We have yet to reach the mountain-top and the arc hasn’t reached the promise land of justice – but her sheer presence, grit and fortitude as first lady of the United States reminds us just how far we’ve come and yet her treatment as a black woman shows us just how much further we need to go.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/12/do-michelle-obamas-comments-on-race-resonate-with-black-women-our-panelists-discus
OzarkHillbilly
@Tommy: @debbie: Why are people upset about this? Cheating??? In sports???!?!?!!! Why I never………. Seriously, for the NFL to give control of the balls over to teams, than express outrage that a team would use it to their advantage, is ridiculous and speaks of willful stupidity. Baseball doesn’t allow teams to supply the balls for the pitchers for good reason.
But that never stopped the cheating. However, unlike football fans who want their heroes as pure and unsullied as Mother Theresa, we true baseball fans celebrate our cheaters:
Gaylord Jackson Perry (born September 15, 1938) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He pitched from 1962 to 1983 for eight different teams. During a 22-year baseball career, Perry compiled 314 wins, 3,534 strikeouts, and a 3.11 earned run average. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.
His autobiography? Me and the Spitter.
Tommy
I am watching GMA from yesterday. Just rolled over to the show on Hulu. I guess a rich couple got killed in Rockville, MD. They talk to all their neighbors and they are horrified. As they should be.
But they all note this doesn’t happen where they live. They are scared now. I want to ask them, “hey, you realize other people live in areas where murders are almost a daily thing.” Where is our outrage about that?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think it’s Brady’s denials that are pissing everyone off. Perry pretty much winked and nodded throughout his career.
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly: I am almost all in with you on this.
I didn’t know this happened until this all came up. As you said how do you give control of the balls to a team? I feel Brady and the Pats are first to blame. A close second if not a tie for first is the NFL.
debbie
@rikyrah:
I love the Guardian. Meanwhile, Glenn Beck’s portraying her as an angry black woman much like Jeremiah Wright.
I hope she keeps her advocacy going after leaving the White House.
debbie
@Tommy:
Just like you gave banks the right to pick their regulators. It’s the same country after all.
jonas
@Tommy: I think curricula in states like Maryland and NY tend to cover it pretty well. Harriet Tubman lived in Auburn and stories about the UR are part of local history in upstate NY. In Georgia? Probably not so much.
rikyrah
@Tommy:
So simple.
Makes sense to me.
Tommy
@jonas: I live in IL and we were taught in detail about the Underground Railroad and Tubman. I am frankly confused how somebody doesn’t know about Harriot Tubman. Even more confused how an African American doesn’t even know who she is.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Yeah I know, but even that mystifies me. When Bill got caught with his pants down, the only people upset about his lying were Republicans. Everyone else was like, “Well Duhhhhh… I wouldn’t want to piss off Hillary.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Tommy: I can only say this: The Patriots were the first to get caught. Not for one second do I believe they were the first to doctor the balls.
Tommy
@rikyrah: I mentioned in my first comment here I played golf at a high level. I’ve had the same clubs since 1982. Ping. The first edition. They are squared groove.
The PGA ruled out square groove clubs in like 1985.
I won’t get in the weeds about what this means, but I spent the better part of a few weeks, and I was 15, to ensure I wasn’t playing with a club that was illegal.
I also carried the PGA Guidelines with me and I pulled it out many times. I didn’t cheat. I played by the rules. That Tom cheated and he is pretty clear he did, I will always slam him for.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Didn’t President Obama say the same in last year’s budget proposals during the State of the Union speech? But I bet Scarborough is blaming Obama for the lack of infrastructure spending, right?
P.S. Good luck with your medical procedure.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Rigging the game, as American as apple pie.
Mark
@debbie:
Beck’s response was typical; conservatives are the true victims of persecution in America.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: Straight up racism. So only White, straight males are “intrinsically” qualified to be president? Truly cannot stand these people. I am dying for Mrs. Clinton to win the presidency just to see their bitter tears.
Kay
This is why we can’t have a focus on “pocketbook” issues in this country:
Those issues bore pundits. None of these proposals actually exist in this country so they by definition would “break new ground” but because they’re “familiar” they’d rather cover Chris Christie’s bold “cut Social Security” plan or Rand Paul’s ruminations on why we don’t need the ADA. Paid family leave would be huge. The FMLA was huge. Millions of people have benefitted from it, including me. BOR-ing!
kc
@Botsplainer:
LOL!
Chris
@Germy Shoemangler:
I thought Jacksonianism was a more legitimately anti-elite ideology, anti-1% as much as anti-intellectual, in contrast to our teabaggers who worship the group the 1% walk on. I can see our teabaggers commiserating with Andrew Jackson about those Fucking Fancy-Pants Harvard Elitists, but I think they’d recoil in horror at his opinion of the “Job Creators.” And poor whites did get real benefits from that brand of populism; it’s in that time that the right to vote was extended to them.
None of which of course invalidates the point that he was a racist and genocidal maniac and that for his followers that was part of the package.
Jacksonianism always reminds me not so much of our teabaggers but more of early twentieth century populism – genuinely populist, but only when it came to white people, and often racist as hell when it came to anyone else. This used to be the Democratic Party’s thing, but Truman threw down the gauntlet in front of the racists and there hasn’t been a real equivalent since.
japa21
@Patricia Kayden: Well it is Obama’s fault about lack of infrastructure spending. After all if he wasn’t blah and a Democrat, the GOP would be happy to spend the money.
HRA
The Patriots were caught cheating once before and that was present in the findings of this incident. Tom Brady was cited as not being responsive in answering the questions put to him in the search for the truth or agreeing to let them look at his cell.
Personally I do believe Brady had the greatest part in this incident and deserves the greatest punishment for it. It’s no secret to watch his reactions to being sacked and intercepted differ greatly from the other quarterbacks in the league in the same circumstances. It’s eons different from when I made sure to watch the team being quarterbacked by Jim Plunkett and Drew Bledsoe.
As a long time Bills fan, I do want him to play the Bills in the 4th game in the schedule. So far he will not be playing it.
I found it amusing to see a GoFund put up for the million dollars fine today.
Cckids
@Mustang Bobby:
I don’t have a link, but I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin’s already been there. She breathes outrage.
Ian
@raven:
Is our Joe seeing the light? A modern country needs modern infrastructure? Balderdash.
agorabum
@tybee: I will say this about Jackson, he did know how to handle seccesionist threats from South Carolina (that he would hang them all from the highest tree)
Mnemosyne (tablet)
I have a bit of a RL social problem that I’m not sure how to handle, so I thought I’d put it out to the B-J hivemind:
I went to Florida last week to help support one of my older brothers, who was diagnosed with lung cancer last year and it’s not looking good. Now that I’m back at work, people I know somewhat casually are asking me what my family emergency was. How do I tell them without being Debbie Downer and feeling like I’m ruining their day? It turns out that saying that your 50-year-old brother has (probable) terminal lung cancer and three kids under 18 tends to depress people.
This isn’t for people I know well, but for casual acquaintances who saw my outgoing message and are curious. Any ideas?
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@rikyrah:
Yes, George W Bush, son of a president and grandson of a senator, was elected based on his intrinsic qualities, not an accident of birth.
Excuse me, I need to go pound my head on the desk for half an hour or so. BRB.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (tablet): “Illness in the family.”
Bubblegum Tate
Not sure if this has already been posted, but this is my favorite response to the Obamacare-hatin’/blind-goin’ idiot.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@rikyrah: To replace Jackson I really wanted Wilma Mankiller because of the ethnic cleansing. I’ll love Harriet Tubman though.
Germy Shoemangler
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Co-workers who insist on knowing what your family emergency was deserve to be told the truth. So what if it brings them down. Maybe they’ll learn not to pry. “Family Emergency” isn’t enough info for them?
I work with people who need to know every last detail about everyone’s lives. It’s because they find their jobs so boring.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Germy Shoemangler:
I do work somewhere where friendliness and cooperation is prized (one of our divisions is the Happiest Place on Earth), so there is a bit of social pressure to share. And they are well-meaning people, which is why I don’t want to bring people down who are just trying to be polite.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I’m with Omnes on “family illness.” You could even add “serious family illness in FL” if you want to be more detailed. If they mean well and have any social skills, they’ll understand that you’ve provided all the information they want to hear.
Calouste
@rikyrah: The first 35 white men to be elected prior to the Voting Rights Act were affirmative action presidents, because not everyone who was not a white man could be a candidate or even vote.
Joy in FL
Annie Laurie–
I appreciate the update on the $20. I learned about it from one of your earlier posts and voted, forwarded the link to a couple friends whom I thought might be interested.
I’m glad to know who won; I would have been ok with any of the women on the list.
I hope you’ll post as the next steps in the process occur.
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
Wait a minute. Didn’t Sy Hersh recently say that bin Laden was killed in exactly the same way?
Brachiator
Hmmm.
James Buchanan (1857-1861), lifelong bachelor, probably gay
FDR (1933-1945), disabled
And all those presidents whose “intrinsic quality” appears to be mainly that they were white males (and in the earliest days of the nation, white male property owners).
ruemara
@Mnemosyne (tablet): It’s not their business, it’s yours. If you’re comfortable with being honest, how they take your family’s difficulties is their problem. If you know these are honest inquiries from decent folk who can be supportive, say my brother is dealing with lung cancer. If they’re the type who are just nosey, family matters. And if you don’t want them to know anything at all, “Thanks for asking, it was a family emergency”.
daddyj
@Mustang Bobby: I eagerly await the thinly veiled complaints that we should not be honoring a person who helped property escape from its rightful owner.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
I don’t know. I don’t see that people you only know casually have a right to know the details.
But I guess if you want to share the information, and it does not bother you to do so, then you should tell them, even if it is “a downer” for them.
Or as another poster noted, “it was a family emergency, and the family wants to deal with it privately for now. Thank you for asking.”
H.E. Wolf
Adding my hooray to the news of the $20 bill vote. All the vote options were good ones; I’m thrilled that Tubman was chosen.
A 1970 poem by Susan Griffin: “I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman”. Text is here:
US Library of Congress has this photo of Tubman in its collection, taken in 1911, when she was in her late 80s:
Chris
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
I’ve gotten a few variations of “I’d rather not talk about it but I really appreciate your concern” when I was being too nosy. I’d recommend that as a nice version of “natcho bisnesss dude.”
Fair Economist
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
At some point, they’re likely to find out the whole truth, when he dies if not before, so don’t feel bad about it. But you can say “I went to help take care of my brother who has cancer.” If they ask followup questions, give honest answers but don’t volunteer details. Most people know the whole story of almost any cancer death is depressing and they’ll generally not ask for more than they can handle.
Also, he’s not *their* brother or even somebody they know in most cases (I assume) so it’s not going to be nearly as downing for them as it is for you. And people do appreciate the chance to empathize and give support.
H.E. Wolf
Sorry, I messed up the links.
Poem is here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/iloveDave/mysg.html
And photo is here:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002716779/
serge
I’ve been hoping it would be Harriet Tubman. She’s a personal icon to me. Just down the road from me is the scene of her outrageously brilliant Combahee River raid. Her presence on the $20 bill will drive many (most) of my SC compadres Batshit Fucking Crazy. I can’t wait.