Believe it or not, I was watching a segment of Cuomo Prime Time and caught a snippet of Steve Mnuchin being asked if he would consider putting the image of Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar bill. Mnuchin kind of dodged the question.
This may seem like heresy for my conservative blog, but I see no reason why not. It is a well known fact that Andrew Jackson was responsible for the persecution of thousands of Native Americans and what is known as The Trail of Tears. He forced The Cherokee, Shawnee, and whatever other Native Americans he could round up, or that weren’t murdered by his mercenary squads, to march west to reservations, where many died. Thankfully a few surviving Native Americans were able to flee and their heirs lived to be free people, but because of Jackson’s tarnished legacy, I have always felt that Jackson had no business being immortalized on the twenty dollar bill.
Tubman’s legacy is far nobler, even heroic.