Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill-- $10 and $5 bills changing, too

[Cappytaino]

I mean I think literally every figure that appears on our currency is a dead old white guy. Besides the dollar coin. It's OK to have so many white guys on our currency because most of them are deserving to be on our currency, because the fact is that for most of our history white guys had a monopoly on political power. But Andrew Jackson is the least deserving of the bunch to be on our currency - he's responsible for the Trail of Tears (which he did AGAINST A SUPREME COURT RULING PREVENTING HIM FROM DOING SO) and he doesn't even support federal money.

It's better to use this opportunity to not portray dead WASP male #81 or whatever.

I don't disagree with you that Andrew Jackson is a stuffty person. Believe me, I'm an enrolled Creek and my ancestors were some of the first to go on the Trail of Tears. I understand its impacts and that it was a terrible event.

It just seems really forced and white guilt-y to put Harriet Tubman on there. I'm in no way saying she is not admirable or deserving of respect, but the underground railroad was a system involving hundreds, if not thousands of people working together to coordinate the bringing of slaves to freedom. If we're going the "influential minorities" route, I'd imagine Sojourner Truth and  Red Cloud make two really good cases for being on currency.

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[Jairo]

I'm not against changing the face of the 20, but is harriet tubman really the best they could come up with?

[Steve5451²]

Why not Martin Luther King?

[Oasis]

Lets pull a Norway:

[shitlord]

honestly, those look really cool

[Kochieboy]

Lets pull a Norway:

Abstract pixel art?

[sir dooble]

Why not Martin Luther King?

Probably considered too modern. But if you were to choose an internationally known representave of the US civil-rights movement, he would be my number 1 choice. He's the only one I really know of at any rate.

But, he's also a man. And I think some contention is a lack of female representation on the currency too.
While black americans make up around 15% of the population, Women make up 50%.

Harriet Tubman does seem at least a little bit like an attempt to hit two birds with one stone.

[TheBlackParrot]

knowing people are offended over this is just bewildering
like
it's a piece of paper

really i wish we'd change everyone on our paper currency every decade or so

[Trogtor]

really i wish we'd change everyone on our paper currency every decade or so

sounds like a sweet idea but i can see how this can go wrong in lots of ways

[KickFlow]

Let's put kate upton on the $100.

[Trogtor]

Let's put kate upton on the $100.

then in like 20 years it will be worth like 200 dollars

[McZealot]

Probably considered too modern. But if you were to choose an internationally known representave of the US civil-rights movement, he would be my number 1 choice. He's the only one I really know of at any rate.

But, he's also a man. And I think some contention is a lack of female representation on the currency too.
While black americans make up around 15% of the population, Women make up 50%.

Harriet Tubman does seem at least a little bit like an attempt to hit two birds with one stone.

let's compromise: mlk jr on the $20 bill for black representation, and hillary clinton on the $1 for female representation. i mean washington was the first pres but other than that he didnt really do anything,

[Trogtor]

hillary clinton on the $1 for female representation.

hell freaking no lol

[KickFlow]

and hillary clinton on the $1 for female representation.

We can make a new coin that's worth 73 cents & she can be on it for being a women.

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I'd think Susan B Anthony would be a better candidate since she did more to help the country
MLK on a bill would be neat