A Fugitive to Grace American Money [Video]

Rosa Parks couldn't be chosen. She has not been dead for 25 years. Sandra Day O'Connor--still alive and not available. The U.S. Treasury Department has decided on Harriett Tubman to replace the 7th President of our country, Andrew Jackson on the front side of the $20 bill.

I commend Tubman for freeing enslaved blacks from Maryland. Talk about guts. Imagine running the Underground Railroad, late at night, knowing slave owners would waste know time killing a fugitive.

My major pause and question with selecting Tubman for the Twenty dollar bill, over Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells, Clara Barton, Abigail Adams, Susan B. Anthony and Nelly Bly, is because while her deeds remain heroic, Tubman broke the laws of the land. No matter how altruistic her noble quest to free black slaves was, Tubman, nonetheless, committed criminal acts. Now, the United States is going to have the dubious distinction of honoring a law breaker by taking her mug shot from the Post Office and placing it onto the $20 bill.