As most of us have heard by now, Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 dollar bill. She will be the first woman on U.S. currency, as well as the first minority. This is a great step for the United States, but unfortunately, one that has been met with backlash. It seems like anytime something happens in this country, some group of people gets pissed off or offended. Let's examine why she's the perfect choice and why her critics are so wrong.

The women's movement is stereotyped by a few bad feminists. Personally, I disagree with the movement as a whole, but still believe in women's equality and rights. The typical image of a feminist is a woman with hairy armpits, B.O. and a hatred for men. The movement is met with a lot of backlash by men and even some women. Replacing Jackson with an important feminist, (I can't name any) just wouldn't work. That's what makes Tubman so great; anyone except the worst kinds of people can get behind her. She fought slavery by leading slaves on the underground railroad, something almost nobody can disagree with.

Sadly, not everyone can get behind that. Apparently there's something wrong with leading people out of servitude. Suddenly a certain group of people suddenly care about Andrew Jackson. Sadly, those people seem to ignore the Trail of Tears, when Jackson ignored the Supreme Court and forced the Cherokee Indians out of their homeland and onto reservations resulting in thousands of deaths along the way. Almost 200 years later, he does not deserve to be on the $20 dollar bill, or any currency for that matter: