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There have been a lot of conversations this week about the effort to put a woman on the 20-dollar bill. The organization responsible for the effort, Women On 20s, held a public vote on four finalists and the winner was Harriet Tubman, a former slave turned abolitionist.
But Michelle Taylor, who blogs under the name Feminista Jones, has suggested that the effort to get a woman on currency, especially Tubman, is misguided.