Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill

[Rev. Rye]

But we digress
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To the OP.

WHY?

I admire the woman. She did a lot of good - for a deeply religious, gun toting Republican...


But why the need to change the currency?

Because maybe the government is no longer comfortable with putting someone directly responsible for ethnic cleansing and ramping up the genocides of the American Indian on money? Sure, Washington and Jefferson were slaveholders, Lincoln violated due process, FDR created internment camps for the Japanese (admittedly meant to be a temporary measure, but that doesn’t make it much better), Grant completely shit the bed on his presidency, and Ben Franklin was probably patient zero for syphilis, but they all had accomplishments that balanced their legacies out. And the accomplishments of Jacksonian democracy are just getting more and more hollow with every generation. His tenure has become defined by his blatant racism, and it’s become clear that that’s not something the government wants to endorse anymore.