Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Redesign Receives Mixed Reviews

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For a whole host of reasons, Black women have not requested that Harriet Tubman be placed on the $20. It was shouted from hilltops that we saved democracy- and *this* is the response🤨 Keep the 20 as it is and cancel some debt, expand medical coverage, raise minimum wage...

— Austin Channing Brown (@austinchanning) January 26, 2021

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Unfortunately, due to the black women pay gap, if we put Harriet Tubman on the $20 it’ll only be worth $12.20.

— Kashana (@kashanacauley) January 26, 2021

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Harriet Tubman is an American hero. Putting her on our $20 bill is one of the only useful things I can imagine the government doing right now.

— emma (@emp_tn) January 26, 2021

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Unpopular opinion: I don’t even want Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill. Honestly I think there’s some sort of perversion in doing so. A woman who was traded as capital becoming the face of capital doesn’t sit right with my spirit.

— AshleyStevens (@The_Acumen) January 25, 2021

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What if instead of putting Harriet on the $20, we actually gave black people reparations and then just taught ACTUAL real black history instead of fragments.

— yours truly, (@saysahr) January 25, 2021

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Kneeling in kente cloth, Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, Black Lives Matter murals... all empty gestures meant for American politicians to pat themselves on the back without having to actually account for a history of societal and economic oppression

— im talking that talk that got Malcolm X watched (@TheBlackCyde) January 26, 2021

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The MAGA regime purposely stalled putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to replace Andrew Jackson for one reason only, racism.

Luckily, Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden Admin is looking for ways to speed of up that process. 👏

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 25, 2021

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Instead of throwing black people a "symbolic bone" by putting Harriet Tubman on a $20 how about passing a reparations bill to help with that increasing wage gap between blacks w/ college degrees and whites w/ high school diplomas?

— Monnie 💚💚💚 (@BlackBernieBabe) January 25, 2021

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If you’ve studied Harriet Tubman you’d know that she wouldn’t even want to be on a $20 bill.

Get over this unproductive representation hype.

Should have honored her when she was alive but oh... a 40K bounty was put on her head.

Some wrongs you just can’t right.
Let her rest.

— Jeneisha C. Harris (@bigjaytoyou) January 26, 2021

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Putting Harriet Tubman on a $20 is just performative to me. It’s giving BLM Ave.

— Muted. Argue with yourself. (@___inCANdescent) January 25, 2021

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I don’t want or need Black women to be on the nation’s money. I need the nation to put its money on (invest in the needs of and leadership of) Black women. Good morning.

— . (@ProfessorCrunk) January 26, 2021

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You make amends for 250 years of slavery and 90 years of Jim Crow not by putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, but by providing reparations to Black Americans descended from slaves.

— Ryan Knight ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) January 26, 2021

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They need to hurry up and approve them Tubmans so I can start only carrying $20s and $5s.

— Rod (@rodimusprime) January 26, 2021