Don Feder, a spokesman for the social conservative World Congress of Families and a member of the board of advisers of the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform, is not a fan of the decision to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, blaming the move in a column today on the end of “one nation under God” and the emergence of “tribal America.”
“At the risk of committing a capital offense, let me state what should be obvious: American history was made by white males, who were overwhelmingly Christian,” Feder writes.
He couldn’t resist adding an awkward dig at transgender rights initiatives: “White males established our nation, forged our identity, fought and won our wars and built our economy. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers didn’t just identify as men, but actually were men.”
… The mutation of our paper money represents the triumph of symbolism over substance. One nation under God, RIP. Welcome to the tribal America of the 21st. century.
The Democratic Party has destroyed the black family (73% of African-Americans are born out-of-wedlock). Its latest big idea is giving sexual predators access to ladies’ rooms, in the name of equality. But, it’s putting the face of a black woman on a $20 bill.
At the risk of committing a capital offense, let me state what should be obvious: American history was made by white males, who were overwhelmingly Christian.
Until the current mixed-race occupant of the White House, every president was a male Caucasian – as were overwhelming majorities of Congress and every Supreme Court Justice until 1967.
White males established our nation, forged our identity, fought and won our wars and built our economy. Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers didn’t just identify as men, but actually were men.
And it was white males who ended slavery in 1865 and gave women the vote in 1920.
The faces on our currency reflect the reality of American history. They represent individual achievement, not interest-group pandering. George Washington isn’t on a $1 bill because he was a farmer. Lincoln’s face doesn’t grace a fiver because he was born in poverty. On a $10 note, Alexander Hamilton doesn’t represent immigrants who were born out of wedlock. …
