Answer:
Wasn't completely sure whether you wanted me to strongly support replacing the current twenty dollar bill or if I was allowed to be against it, so I am choosing to be against it. Please mark me brainliest if you are satisfied with this answer below!
Explanation:
"Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It's a Sign of Disrespect" (Cooper 1). While Harriet Tubman is a respected woman known for her bravery and political stances during the slave era of America, replacing Andrew Jackson's face on the twenty-dollar bill is a slap on the face towards the American people and should not be supported.
While diversity should be celebrated and culture mixing should be explored, spending tax-payer money to fund a project as useless as this would be an insult to the nation's founding fathers. "Putting Tubman on legal tender, when slaves in the U.S. were treated as fungible commodities is a supreme form of disrespect. The imagery of her face changing hands as people exchange cash for goods and services evokes for me discomfiting scenes of enslaved persons being handed over as payment for a white debt or anything white slaveholders wanted. America certainly owes a debt to Black people, but this is not the way to repay it" (Cooper 3), there are hundreds of different ideas and projects that could be explored and funded to support the culture of the minorities of America, and replacing the face of the 7th president is not the way to do it.
The cancel culture shockwave flowing through America is destroying our nation. Rather than canceling prominent figures in history and replacing them, we should embrace our history and learn to not repeat our mistakes. No matter how many dollar bills are replaced or statues are torn down, our history of slavery and racism will never be erased. America is the melting pot of culture and ethnicities, and the nation should not stand on pillars of sand.
https://time.com/5933920/harriet-tubman-20-bill-joe-biden/
