Biden Women | Harriet Tubman To Resume Drive for $20 Bill Status After Trump Dumped Her

Will Harriet Tubman's Heroic Mix of Fearless Faith Finally Put Her On $20 Bill?

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday, January 25, 2021 that President Biden’s Treasury Department is searching for ways to deliver on the Obama Administration initiative of adding Harriet Tubman’s portrait to the front of the $20 bill, while moving current occupant, former president Andrew Jackson to the back of the bill.

“The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,” Ms. Psaki said. “It’s important that our money reflect the history and diversity of our country.”

President Donald J. Trump was an ardent fan of Andrew Jackson, praising him so profusely that Trump installed Jackson’s portrait in a prominent Oval Office position. In alignment with his refusal to remove Confederate statues,

Trump tasked his Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, with stopping work on the redesign of the $20 bill. Mnuchin argued that adding new security features to the national currency was a much higher priority and he estimated that Tubman could appear on the $20 bill by 2028.

It should be noted that at an earlier time in history, Democrats also celebrated the populist leanings of President Jackson. Consider all the Jefferson-Jackson Day fundraising dinners held by the Democratic party for decades.

By 2016, large numbers of progressive Democrats had come to view former President Andrew Jackson “as a slaver, ethnic cleanser and a tyrant.”

Writing for Vox, Dylan Matthews pointed out that historians conveniently minimized Jackson’s role in the “forced, bloody transfer of tens of thousands of Native Americans from the South” to make way for large plantations and the importation of slaves. This professed believer in small-government literally engaged in one crime of humanity to make way for a second one.

The consensus of today’s historians is that: “Jackson's small-government fetishism and crank monetary policy views stunted the attempts of better leaders like John Quincy Adams to invest in American infrastructure, and led to the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis that touched off a recession lasting seven years. If that weren't enough, he was a war criminal who suspended habeas corpus and executed prisoners for minor infractions during his time as a general in the War of 1812.”

In today’s world, even moderate Democrats agree that Andrew Jackson is not the American hero Trump embraced. It’s more likely that Trump sees himself as an Andrew Jackson kind of guy. The Greenville Gazette details Andrew Jackson’s ‘The Trail of Tears: America’s Holocaust of ‘Indians”.

Meanwhile, the honorable Harriet Tubman is probably the most famous of the Underground Railroad’s “conductors”. She made 13 missions into slave country, rescuing approximately 70 (not the previously alleged 300) people. On these missions, Tubman also acted as a spy for the Union army.

Read on in AOC Blackness about Harriet Tubman’s faith and how being hit in the head by a slaver throwing a two-pound brick at a young man, hitting Tubman instead, caused her enormous physical headache pain for decades but also gave her alleged spiritual powers in her role as an Underground Railroad conductor. Tubman never lost one person in her 13 missions. Will Harriet Tubman's Heroic Mix of Fearless Faith Finally Put Her On $20 Bill?