Raven-Symone is no stranger to controversy and she thrust herself right back into the thick of it on Wednesday when she appeared on The View and spoke out against the idea of putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
“No offense to everyone who’s going to be mad at me for saying this: I don’t like that idea. I don’t like it,” she said. “I think we need to move a little bit forward. Me personally, I would’ve chosen Rosa Parks. I would have chosen someone that is closer to the progression that we’re doing now. 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. So I would choose a different one, no offense.”
While her View co-hosts didn’t put up too much of a fight, Twitter users were quick to snap at the actress.
“I’m not sure what Raven Symone is trying to say,” a man named Charles Clymer wrote. “Harriet Tubman guided 300 slaves to freedom. How is that not a history that evokes pride?”
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