Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a Yale graduate and former Goldman Sachs investment banker whose Daddy is also a Yale graduate and and former Goldman Sachs banker (Steve is clearly blazing his own trail in this world), indicated last week that the Treasury Department could abandon plans to replace President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The redesign had been finalized under President Obama.
Steve is also currently under investigation by the Treasury Department’s inspector general for taking a government jet to Fort Knox the day of the solar eclipse, perhaps to witness the eclipse from a more favorable position.
Steve is also married to Louise Linton, the fashion-obsessed occasional actress who made headlines two weeks ago after criticizing a woman on Instagram for having less money than she has.
Linton grew up in a Scottish castle and derives all of her wealth from her family and her husband’s fortune.
She apologized for her elitist comments weeks later in the pages of Washington Life alongside photos of her posing in expensive ball gowns in various locations at her and Mnuchin’s Washington mansion.
There are clearly the type of people who Harriett Tubman would have adored.
In regards to the change in the $20 bill, Mnuchin said, “It’s not something that I’m focused on at the moment. The issues of why we change it will be primarily related to what we need to do for security purposes.”
So screw Harriet Tubman. To hell with the idea of allowing our daughters or children of color to see someone like them on a piece of currency. If our money is secure with old, white men on it, then old, white men it shall be!
It’s also sad that Mnuchin can’t apparently focus on more than one thing, or even delegate this matter to a staffer. After all, it’s a simple change of face on a bill. We’ve changed the appearance of our money appears many, many times in just my lifetime. It’s not exactly unprecedented. It shouldn’t be too hard.
But fear not. We may have a solution.
Josh Malina, who played a vice president’s chief of staff on the NBC political drama “The West Wing,” encouraged his more than 240,000 Twitter followers to write the famous abolitionist’s name on $20 bills over the face of Andrew Jackson.
This may technically violate federal law, but it’s still a fantastic idea, and one that I think Harriet Tubman would have loved. If a white man is going to once again stand between Tubman and the recognition she deserves, the least we can do is break the law on her behalf, the same way she did for the hundreds of slaves who she illegally ushered to freedom.
