US Treasury and The Faces On US Currency

There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has still with racial inequality, it would help in the process of racial healing to redesign this nations currency. It might be useful to reference history when considering a new face for the $20 bill. Jackson championed white male suffrage or in other words only the right for white men to vote, excluding the right of women, black americans, and American indigenous people, from participation in the Democracy of the time. Their voices were not allowed to be heard, they could not choose their elected officials, neither could they hold public office. They were second class citizens and were hence invisible and unimportant. Many of the presidents that have become household names for us, believed in a Democracy for people who looked like they did. It was hypocrisy without any concealment. Harriet Tubman was a true champion of Democracy if she is to be compared with the bushy browed Jackson. On a symbolic level she represents the definition of a Democratic government more than he does. The accusations of political correctness toward the redesigning of US currency, can in some cases serve as a defense mechanism used mostly by white Americans, when they see their race as being rivalled by another's. I do not think every president needs to be taken off of our money, just because they were not perfect men ; but there are some who might need to be reanalyzed due to all the whitewashing that's been done to them. There needs to be better educational material and it needs to be taught better in schools. It has been a slow process to have these changes made to our currency, and could take until 2030 before we even see a Harriet Tubman dollar as is desired by all those who know the meaning it carries for the future. And whether Jackson is ordered to the back of the 20 or removed from it completely, does not make much of a difference in the way I see this man. Most of his qualities are unredeemable, and should be on the tablets of our memories as acts of inhumanity, inconsiderate of the personhood of human beings.