Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Back On Track

 The United States is a multi-cultural and multi-racial country. But you would never know that by looking at the individuals on our currency. They are all white men. That doesn't seem right in a country where whites are going to be a minority of the population around the middle of this century.

The Obama administration realized this, and they planned to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The person chosen to be pictured on that bill was Harriet Tubman -- a Black woman and a true American hero. The bill was planned to debut on the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the United States (August 18, 2020).

But once Donald Trump entered the White House, those plans were put on an indefinite hold. Trump was a racist and misogynist, and couldn't let a Black woman be pictured on our currency. And he knew the racists in his party's base didn't want it either.

But those bad times are over. We have a new president -- one who believes in equal rights. President Biden, in his first week in office, put the Tubman $20 bill back on track. It will be a couple of years before we see it (because the bill has to be designed with modern safeguards in mind), but it is going to happen!