Ben Carson, sit down and stop criticizing Tubman on the $20 bill

In addition to the $20 bill makeover which will place Ms. Tubman on the front and move Jackson to the back, Mr. Lew announced that both the $10 note and $5 note will be revamped on the back to honor the civil-rights movement and suffrage activists.

“This gesture sends a powerful message, because of the tendency in American history, the background of excluding women and marginalizing them as national symbols”, said Riche Richardson, associate professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University. “She is an icon of religious liberty”.

The $10 and $5 bills will also undergo changes. After escaping in 1849 to Philadelphia, she returned to the South more than a dozen times, helping to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, which earned her the name “Moses”. Too bad President Jackson didn’t have a smash-hit of a now Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play to give him more currency, pun intended.

But this is the inspiring part: Tubman becomes the first African-American on USA paper money and the first woman on currency in 100 years.

Tubman also worked as a nurse, cook, scout and spy during the Civil War and went unpaid, a point Humphries Fann highlights in her re-enactment.

“Having lobbied for the retention of Alexander Hamilton’s image on the $10 bill, Hamilton College is pleased with today’s announcement by U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew”, states a message posted on the college website shortly after the decision was released.

“I think Harriet Tubman is fantastic”. “I used to say, I could feel the bones rattling from the earth of how she’s feeling, because of how things happen to us as black people”.

“For a slave owner like that to share a bill, back, front or sideways, with Harriet Tubman, of all people, is truly an insult”, said Laurel Ullyette, president of the Harriet Tubman Boosters organization and member of the Auburn/Cayuga County chapter of the NAACP. “He was frightful to women”, she says.

The front of the US $20 bill, featuring a likeness of Andrew Jackson.

“What would make this a true cause for celebration is for Lew to announce that he will fast-track the $20 note, putting it into production alongside the new $10, which is first in line, for security reasons”.

“Yes, I think it’s pure political correctness”, the real estate mogul said.