On an episode on this week's The View, Raven-Symone weighed in on Harriet Tubman being voted to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, saying she doesn’t think she deserves it.
When the panel’s conversation turned to the recent poll findings, she said Tubman isn’t progressive enough and she would rather see Rosa Parks on the bill.
“I don’t like that idea. I think we need to move a little bit forward,” she said, already anticipating the backlash by saying “no offense to everyone that’s going to be mad at me for saying this.”
“I would have chosen someone that is closer to the progression that we’re doing now,” she continued. “I know you have to understand history so you don’t repeat it, but that doesn’t happen in our world, because we still repeat history of hating other cultures over and over again. I would choose a different woman, no offense.”
Parks was one of the choices in the Women on 20s poll, in addition to Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller. Tubman, who organized the Underground Railroad, won with about a third of all votes cast.
Symone previously faced backlash in October when she told Oprah Winfrey she didn’t want to be “labeled” as African American.
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