Brenda Ramirez

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M/W 530-645

Honor or Insult? A Debate on the Significance of Harriet Tubman on the New $20 Bill

This passed Wednesday it was said that the new $20 bill would have a new face on it Known as Harriet Tubman she was famous as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s. Born a slave on Maryland's eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings, and based on History it would be the very first Women on American currency. She would be replacing former president and slave owner Andrew Jackson, over half a million people voted for her face to on it, and it would represent women empowerment but as said by Writer Feminista Jones "instead, it only promises to distort Tubman's legacy ... [which] is rooted in resisting the foundation of American capitalism". Although Andrew Jackson was getting replaced, he wasn't going disappear he was just going to move down currency. For the political opportunity, when it comes to U.S related, their isn't always a perfect time and place to do anything. Voting will go on and decisions will be made and everyone just goes with the flow. Some may think of it as contradictory, because back in the days in Tubman's slave days but in some ways its respecting her past and the hero she became and now giving her respect in a very braud way. There is framing behind this whole debate because how everyone brings about the reasoning's why Tubman should or shouldn't be on American currency.

Colorado's First Black Woman Pot Entrepreneur on Edibles, Incarceration & the Industry's Whiteness

Based on an Article coming from Denver, Colorado, based on legalizing Marijuana in 2012, and so it wouldn't be bought on the streets. People who need Marijuana either need it for medical or recreational use, and the cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing in the United States. For all that is going on with women being recognized for their history, women want to be known. Based on the best-selling author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," Michelle Alexander. She addressed the issue in a conversation with the Drug Policy Alliance, saying, "Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing." This article seems to tie in with the recent one due to the fact of how white men now that Marijuana is legalized are making businesses and making the big dollars that black men got locked up for. She was inspired to start a dispensary by the experiences of her brother, who at 17 was locked up on a petty drug charge—and forced to pick cotton in Texas for four years to earn his freedom. But not only is she a woman but Wanda James, the CEO Denver-based cannabis dispensary Simply Pure is the first African-American woman in Colorado to own a cannabis dispensary. She brought up her dispensary with a purpose.