Tuesday, April 26, 2016

political expediency

“Harriet Tubman, one of America’s truest and most revered freedom fighters, deserves a far more fitting tribute than to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency by placing her on the twenty-dollar bill,” the retired neurosurgeon wrote in an op-ed for The Independent Journal Review. - Ben Carson: Harriet Tubman on $20 bill is ‘exploitation of a real American hero’

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