Well... if this keeps up both George W and Thomas J are going the way of the Dodo bird since they both owned slaves. How can you apply the same standards of today with the norm of the 18th and 19th-century?
I'll give you an example:
Bathing attire in the 1800's
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will announce this week that Alexander Hamilton will remain on the $10 bill and Andrew Jackson will be pushed off the $20 note in favor of a woman from American history, CNN said Saturday.
The announcement will come around a year after an online petition called for Jackson to be replaced with a woman, and ten months after Lew announced he wanted to replace Hamilton instead.
But support for the Founding Father to stay picked up steam thanks to the hit Broadway musical 'Hamilton', and now a government source tells CNN that Jackson will get the push instead.
Trailing off: Andrew Jackson is to be replaced on the $20 bill with a woman representing the fight for racial equality, an insider source told CNN. The backs of the $5 and $10 bills will also be changed
Announcement: Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew (pictured) originally wanted to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, but Jackson's negative history with Native Americans led to public pressure to replace him
Rather than removing Hamilton from the $10 bill, the rear of the note will instead feature a mural depicting women's suffrage.
And Jackson will be ousted in favor of a woman representing the fight for racial equality, the source said.
But don't expect to be trading in your old notes any time soon - creating a counterfeit-proof bank note requires input from the U.S. Secret Service, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
That means the new $20 note won't be issued until 2030 - at the earliest.
'The blue security ribbon on the $100 note took over 15 years to develop,' CNN's source said. 'This level of technology is why our counterfeiting remains at less than .01% of currency in circulation.
'We should not expedite the issuance of any currency for political purposes.'
Really... AJ's been on the $20 bill since 1928 so what the fuck are they changing it for?
Political purposes or political correctness?
Same shit if you ask me.
(I was kind of hoping for Hillary in handcuffs)
As well as the $10 and $20 bills, the $5 bill will also see changes. Abraham Lincoln will remain on the front, but the rear will show a selection of notable historical moments that have taken place at the Lincoln Memorial.
Contenders: Civil rights fighter Rosa Parks (left) and slave savior Harriet Tubman (right) were both finalists in an unofficial poll on who should replace Jackson.
You didn't really think it was gonna be Betsy Ross did you?
No names for the $20 bill's new arrival have been given at this stage.
However, the website that hosted the original petition, Womenon20s.org, held a poll in which its users voted for Harriet Tubman, the 19th-century ex-slave who risked her life to smuggle 300 other slaves to freedom, to take Jackson's place.
Another figure who made it to the final round of voting was Rosa Parks, who famously fought for an end to racial segregation.
Jackson was originally selected for replacement by the petition because of his Indian Removal Act, which forced Native Americans out of their territories, and led to the Trail of Tears.
US bills have not featured a woman as a central image since the first First Lady, Martha Washington, appeared on the $1 silver certificate from 1891-1896.
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