Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill,canceled?

[Ol’Otis]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday declined to say whether the Trump administration would continue with a plan to depict Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Asked during a CNBC television interview about removing President Andrew Jackson from the currency in place of Tubman, an abolitionist and former slave, Mnuchin said: “It’s not something that I’m focused on at the moment.”

The most important reason to make currency changes is to stop counterfeiting, he said.

“People have been on the bills for a long period of time,” he said. “This is something we’ll consider. Right now, we have a lot more important issues to focus on.”

In April 2016, then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said he asked the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to accelerate work on the new $20 bill with Tubman on the front. He said he expected the final concept design for the new $20 bill and other bills to be unveiled in 2020 in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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But Donald Trump criticized the change at the time as “pure political correctness.”

The future president told NBC's Matt Lauer on the "Today" show in April 2016 that he "would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can maybe come up with another denomination. Maybe we do the $2 bill or we do another bill.”

Mnuchin dismisses question about putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

 

[Black Cobain]

You really expect this administration to go through with the change?

 

[Ol’Otis]

You really expect this administration to go through with the change?

Hell no

 

[Hoodoo Child]

I don't think Harriet Tubman would even want to be on the face of currency of the same country who enslaved her. She would probably want us to have land and reparations.

 

[Majestic]

Not a bad thing. Y'all love symbolic victories. Y'all really wanted a black slave woman on the same dollar where there is a white slave master. Disgusting. They're playing a game and sending out clear messages.

 

[Inmate60863]

These devil's would never allow it. Maybe in the future like a month before we go to an all digital currency they might consider it.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.

In 2016, the Treasury Department said it would replace former President Andrew Jackson's image on the front of the bill with that of Tubman by 2020, along with redesigns of the $5 and $10 bill.

President Donald Trump has called the inclusion of Tubman on the $20 bill an example of "pure political correctness."

As a presidential candidate, Trump suggested Tubman would be better-suited for the $2 bill, a note that is not widely circulated.

Mnuchin said during a hearing with the House Financial Services committee he was focused on redesigning the bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making any changes to their imagery.

"We will meet the security feature redesign (goal) in 2020. The imagery feature will not be an issue that comes up until most likely 2026," Mnuchin told lawmakers.

"It is not a decision that is likely to come until way past my term, even if I serve a second term for the president, so I am not focused on that at the moment," Mnuchin added.

He declined to tell lawmakers in the hearing if he supported putting Tubman on the bill.

Tubman was born into slavery and grew up on a Maryland plantation, escaping in her late 20s. She returned to the South to help hundreds of slaves to freedom and later worked as a Union spy during the Civil War. She died in 1913.


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[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

I don't think Harriet Tubman would even want to be on the face of currency of the same country who enslaved her. She would probably want us to have land and reparations.

She wanted us to get the fukk outta here

 

[MIKE SPLEAN]

Already a thread on this.

 

[Why-Fi]

I don't think Harriet Tubman would even want to be on the face of currency of the same country who enslaved her. She would probably want us to have land and reparations.

Not a bad thing. Y'all love symbolic victories. Y'all really wanted a black slave woman on the same dollar where there is a white slave master. Disgusting. They're playing a game and sending out clear messages.

you’re oversimplifying her role in american history. she was a critical union military asset, not just some fed up slave. if this administration kills the $20 bill thing you should consider how some of them and their supporters are still caping for the losing side

 

[Supreme]

 

[2stainz]

Maybe in the future like a month before we go to an all digital currency they might consider it.

fukked up cause thats exactly how its gonna happen

this country aint shyt

 

[George's Dilemma]

you’re oversimplifying her role in american history. she was a critical union military asset, not just some fed up slave. if this administration kills the $20 bill thing you should consider how some of them and their supporters are still caping for the losing side

Putting her on the $20 bill does what for me and other Black Americans?

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Ya'll already knew what the game was about.

 

[FLATOP]

Good. Keep her legacy sacred