Don Lemon on Barred Harriet Tubman $20 Bill: We Don’t Have to Walk Around with a Slave Owner’s Picture in Our Wallet

RUSH EXCERPT:

LEMON: “Because he was speaking to an audience of one and it doesn’t appeal to his base. He said he thought it was political correctness. I don’t understand what is politically correct about putting someone who is a hero to the country, not just for people of color, of course she’s a hero for people of color, but putting a hero to the American people on currency.”

CUOMO: “There was a big buy-in on this all across the country.”

LEMON: “People are calling it Tubman’s, right. At some point someone had to decide who goes in all of our currency. And I think making a decision about that is not necessarily political correctness, it is who you think the best person is and Harriet Tubman is certainly worthy of being put on — “