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Mobb Deep’s Prodigy has dished out his thoughts on African American icon Harriet Tubman landing on the $20 bill in place of former slave master Andrew Jackson.
Despite widespread celebration, Capital P shared a more cynical look at the perceived ode on Instagram this week.
This week, fellow Big Apple hip-hop artist Azealia Banks bashed the Tubman news.
Television mogul Oprah Winfrey has already applauded the historic move.
“Yeeessssssss! That is ‘that’ great! Yeeesssssss! Yeah, Harriet. That was my vote. Harriet Tubman, she didn’t find out but somewhere up there she knows. She deserves it. I would have said she deserved it, she’s my number one. Sojourner Truth was my number two – I love a white person who knows who that is. [laughs]” (TMZ)
Buzz about Tubman landing on the $20 bill surfaced online yesterday (April 20).
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday will announce plans to both keep Alexander Hamilton on the front of the $10 bill and to knock Andrew Jackson off the front of the $20 in favor of Harriet Tubman, sources tell POLITICO. Lew is expected to roll out a set of changes that also include putting leaders of the women’s suffrage movement on the back of the $10 bill, and incorporating civil rights era leaders and other important moments in American history into the $5 bill. (Politico)
