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The Trump White House Is Refusing to Commit to Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill

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Remember the good old days when Harriet Tubman was about to be on our 20 dollar bill? It should come as no surprise, sadly, that Trump White House - an administration lauded by white supremacists and neo-Nazis - might not be prepared to honor the abolitionist and national hero in the way she so very much deserves.

During an interview with CNBC on Aug. 31, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked whether he would uphold the Barack Obama-era proposal to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with Harriet Tubman. "It's not something I'm focused on at the moment," Mnuchin responded, adding, "The number one issue why we change the currency is to stop counterfeiting. So the issues of what we change will be primarily related to what we need to do for security purposes."

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Mnuchin's apparent refusal to commit to putting Tubman - who would be one of the very few women and the only African American to ever appear on US currency - on the $20 bill does nothing to quell outrage at an administration already perceived by many to be stoking racial tensions. That the treasury secretary's lackluster response so closely followed Donald Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists after the violence in Charlottesville, VA, was definitely not lost on Twitter.

Of course, Harriet Tubman will remain one of the greatest American heroes in history - regardless of whether she ends up on the $20 bill. But it is high time that black women's contributions to this country be celebrated appropriately, and stamping Harriet Tubman's legacy onto green bills certainly still seems like a great place to start.



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