Stephen Colbert on the Money: Harriet Tubman Will Grace $20 Bills; Now, How About That Wage Gap?
"It's gonna get awkward in your wallet when she runs into Washington and Jefferson."Stephen Colbert capitalized on the news that underground railroad heroine Harriet Tubman will grace our future $20 bills in a “Late Show” riff Wednesday night, paying Tubman her due while hastening “renowned … Native American stabber” Andrew Jackson’s departure from that same piece of currency. “It’s gonna get a little awkward in your wallet when she runs into Washington and Jefferson,” he joked.
While he was at it, Colbert also worked in a dismayingly relevant wage-gap zinger, pointing out how women in the workplace are still seeing fewer dollars represented in their paychecks than their male counterparts, whether in the form of Tubman-themed twenties or otherwise, .
Watch the clip below (“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” via YouTube):
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