It really was no surprise when Donald Trump, a man who reached the White House at least in part by catering to white supremacists, made a point of doing away with plans to replace the image of known racist Andrew Jackson on the $20 in favor of an image of Harriet Tubman, which was set to make it’s debut during the years when Trump was president.
Obviously, that did not happen. He put a stop to it.
However, President Joe Biden has been very active in these early days of his presidency, and he is bringing back the plans to have the image of Harriet Tubman on the new $20 bill. It not only honors a woman, which is rare (but hardly non-existent) on American currency, but a black woman, at that.
Frankly, any change to American currency, particularly paper currency, seems rare. This kind of stands out, because paper currency in numerous other nations were fairly commonplace, including Canada. But not here in the United States, where the changes that did come about were, at best, modest. The only substantial change that I have seen on American dollar bills have been gradual. First, the images themselves grew larger and were set a bit off to the side, rather than in a circle a the center of the bill. Since then, these bills have grown just a bit more colorful. But no major changes.
The inclusion of not only a woman, but a non-president and a champion of the Underground Railroad that helped to free slaves, would be a major shift. It was also considered a welcome change by millions of Americans. So it was hardly a surprise that the American Grinch, also known as Donald Trump (I personally refer to him as King Con Don) would get rid of it.
But luckily, he could not completely stop it from ever happening. And it is about to happen again. In fact, Joe Biden is trying to speed the process up.
Biden’s Treasury will seek to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, an effort the Trump administration halted. by Alan Rappeport, Jan. 25, 2021:
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