Harriet Tubman: great first step, many more needed.

Her gaze on our money is going to change how we spend it, if we’re still using cash in the year 2030. Three Harriet Tubmans speak to that in a music video with a soul/rap/gospel track, up at https://vimeo.com/160456708 and TheHarriets.com. Here are verse 1 and the chorus:

Well, look where you put my face.

Did you put my whipping scars on the back?

It’s Moses vs. Gecko, twenty-first century

Justice is coming home

Fairness is coming home

Next stop, Jordan

Great timing, U.S. Mint

Bring me out three ticks before Bitcoin and thumb chips

Turn bills into flystrips

I know the people who need me won’t see me

The poor with their SNAPs cut

The rich with their racks out

LLCs, no responsibilities

No eyes, no skin, no pain, no dreams

And they still get to get the vote out

But you multiply my gaze

Acknowledge power and truth in my face

You can’t look in my eyes and stay numb

The whole country’s going to stop playing dumb

Look at their hands and choose what to hold

And it won’t be a leash or a lash or a load

Redefine what’s getting yours

And work and wages and johns and whores

And it’ll make sense and scare you to death

But I’m here, I’ll guide you, I’m your deliverance

Got the flag down? Now put the swag down

And let’s see what created equal really means.

People hold steady with me

Watch where you spend me

People there’s plenty of me

North Star

We can be so much better

We can be so much better