So, the Treasury announced on Wednesday that they're moving Jackson to the back of the $20 bill and sticking Harriet Tubman on the front. I have, as you may recall, mixed feelings about this. But I'm excited about Harriet Tubman getting this awesome recognition.
Still, according to NPR, Jackson isn't leaving the twenty entirely:
In a statement, the Treasury also announced that the new $20 note will keep an image of Jackson, who was a slaveholder, on the back. The new $10 bill will keep Hamilton on the front but in the back feature "an image of the historic march for suffrage that ended on the steps of the Treasury Department." Leaders of that movement—Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul — will be honored in the image.
WHAT?! I mean, shoot, I'm all for historical honesty and shit, but putting an enslaved woman on the front of the twenty and an enslaver on the back is, whoa doggie, I mean, come on! Is the Harriet Tubman image going to be some kind of holograph that, in the right light, rolls her eyes and vomits at the thought of Andrew Jackson being on her back for ever? She has to share the bill with a man who bought and sold the people she was trying to free?
No, Treasury, either you have Jackson on the twenty or you don't. But this half-measure is an insult to the woman you're trying to honor.
