Status Updates From The Haunting of Lin-Manuel ...

"So, Mr. Miranda, by romanticizing people who treated human beings as animals, you’re playing along with the system as well."

"If I had my druthers, I’d rather be on the one-dollar bill. The people I represent don’t have no $20 bills to wave around."

"This man named Mnuchin refuses to honor me by putting my picture on a $20 bill. If it was Egypt, he would be joining the Pharaoh in chasing his own people across the Red Sea. They honor that old racist suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a statue in the Capitol but ignore me. First, they don’t pay me for my service to the nation, now they keep this dandy Hamilton on the $10 bill and leave me off the twenty."

"Thanks to you I’m a hero to thousands of school children instead of merely someone who didn’t know how to duck."

Damn lol

'They called us “merciless Indian savages” in their Declaration of Independence.'

"They were killing us before they brought most of you Negroes over here. There is no difference between the Nazi invasion of Poland, Czechoslovakia and France and the invasion of Native American land by Washington and Hamilton."

"[...] As an academic historian I am embarrassed by the continuing romantic portrayals of Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, etc. and the educated ignorance of 500 years of OUR struggles. I am also mortified by the revival of Founding Father Love—by both liberals and conservatives—in the Age of Trump. Hamilton, Jefferson and Trump would have cut tons of deals together had they lived in the same time period."

Damn

"[...] Hamilton once wrote a letter which celebrated the vigilante slaughter of a Native American settlement. But what about the treatment of women? Eliza Hamilton and her sisters stood by as their father, General Philip Schuyler, sold Black women and girls, and hunted runaways like Diana—a Black slave."