To: Steven Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary
Tubman stays on the $20 bill!
Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman must replace Andrew Jackson and take her rightful place on the U.S. $20 bill.
Why is this important?
Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, has thrown the fate of Harriet Tubman's place on the U.S. $20 bill into question.
Born enslaved and renowned for her tireless work to abolish slavery and win women the right to vote, Tubman was chosen during the Obama administration, to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. For his part, Jackson is largely remembered as the impetus behind the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi River, sending them on a march west now known as the Trail of Tears.
Lew understood that the fate of Tubman on the $20 rested with his successor. When asked if he worried about whether his decision would be overturned, he's reported to have replied, "I don’t think somebody’s going to probably want to do that--to take the image of Harriet Tubman off of our money? To take the image of the suffragists off?”
But then, Lew couldn't have imagined the toxic duo of Trump and Mnuchin.
Symbols, like a powerful Black woman on our nation's $20 bill, matter. Especially today in the wake of so much Trump-fueled racist horror.
That's why it's important that Mnuchin experience a quick and barbed rebuke from Americans across our nation--taxpayers who both pay for an use our nation's currency.
And the message couldn't be clearer: Tubman stays.
Born enslaved and renowned for her tireless work to abolish slavery and win women the right to vote, Tubman was chosen during the Obama administration, to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. For his part, Jackson is largely remembered as the impetus behind the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi River, sending them on a march west now known as the Trail of Tears.
Lew understood that the fate of Tubman on the $20 rested with his successor. When asked if he worried about whether his decision would be overturned, he's reported to have replied, "I don’t think somebody’s going to probably want to do that--to take the image of Harriet Tubman off of our money? To take the image of the suffragists off?”
But then, Lew couldn't have imagined the toxic duo of Trump and Mnuchin.
Symbols, like a powerful Black woman on our nation's $20 bill, matter. Especially today in the wake of so much Trump-fueled racist horror.
That's why it's important that Mnuchin experience a quick and barbed rebuke from Americans across our nation--taxpayers who both pay for an use our nation's currency.
And the message couldn't be clearer: Tubman stays.