Enlighten me :-)
Enlighten me :-)
see: his actions against Native Americans and their land as a start.
Because he was a white male, therefore invalidating his accomplishments.
Rhyme or Reason wrote:
see: his actions against Native Americans and their land as a start.
Wait, was he considered worse about this than any other WASP to inhabit North America?
thejeff wrote:
Enlighten me :-)
I didn't know there was a push to remove him, but find it interesting because wasn't he proud of ending the central bank in his time? Can't have him stay on the Federal Reserve Note!
Here you go. Enlighten yourself :-)
How did he ever get on the 20 to begin with?
luv2run wrote:
How did he ever get on the 20 to begin with?
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812). The Trail of Tears is shameful and also made me wonder "why not someone else?" I don't even think we should have real people (especially politicians) on money. Bring back Lady Liberty.
his hair is out of control
and he was a jackass
He had a tattoo and old white guys are in a tizzy.
It would be okay if one of the commonly used pieces of currency did NOT have an old white guy on it. I say this as an old white guy.
Jefferson and Jackson were considered the founders of the Democratic Party. The Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinners were a major fundraising event for the Party. That turns out to be an embarrassing historical fact in the modern world: the Democrats are trying to erase all vestiges of the fact that they were the primary political support first for slavery and then for the 100+ years of de facto enslavement that followed the "War Between the States."
Removing favorable references to Jackson generally from the history books, and specifically from the twenty dollar bill, is part of the movement to induce collective amnesia on this subject.
luv2run wrote:
How did he ever get on the 20 to begin with?
Well, Margaret Sanger, the racist advocate for abortion and infanticide, was a candidate in this project to replace Andrew Jackson.
He passed the Indian Removal act taking Native Americans at gunpoint out of their land and into reservations. 1 out of 4 Cherokees died during their journey known as the Trail of Tears.
He supported and defended slavery which is why Harriet Tubman should replace him. She fought to help free slaves so it would be ironic.
Jackson was also against paper currency which makes no sense that he's on a paper bill. He wouldn't want to be on paper money since he hated it.
righter wrote:
luv2run wrote:How did he ever get on the 20 to begin with?
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812). The Trail of Tears is shameful and also made me wonder "why not someone else?" I don't even think we should have real people (especially politicians) on money. Bring back Lady Liberty.
Not after that sex tape
righter wrote:
luv2run wrote:How did he ever get on the 20 to begin with?
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812). The Trail of Tears is shameful and also made me wonder "why not someone else?" I don't even think we should have real people (especially politicians) on money. Bring back Lady Liberty.
I love how much that battle didn't matter. Still funny. I sometimes hear people saying how he was the worst president ever, but I still think Hoover calling the national guard in on WWI veterans was pretty rough.
thejeff wrote:
Rhyme or Reason wrote:see: his actions against Native Americans and their land as a start.
Wait, was he considered worse about this than any other WASP to inhabit North America?
Yes, the WASPs on the US Supreme Court ruled his politics concerning the Cherokee unlawful...he went ahead anyway...something along the lines of "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
History is not black and white, Jackson did good things too, the Force Act of 1833 set a precedent of federal supremacy, and the illegality of nullifacation. Might have been a bit heavy handed.
My vote for a new $20 would be Frederick Douglass.
Charles Sumner, or maybe Henry Clay would also be good choices.
double dry wrote:
righter wrote:Hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812). The Trail of Tears is shameful and also made me wonder "why not someone else?" I don't even think we should have real people (especially politicians) on money. Bring back Lady Liberty.
I love how much that battle didn't matter. Still funny. I sometimes hear people saying how he was the worst president ever, but I still think Hoover calling the national guard in on WWI veterans was pretty rough.
I don't know who calls him the worst president ever. In fact, if you ignore the atrocities of the Trail of Tears, he was a pretty good one. Of course, factoring in the mass genocide knocks him down several points. And this isn't just my opinion. All sorts of historians rank him average at worst, above-average at best.
Voila:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/leadership/schlesinger.html^pretty much 100%. Also because God forbid Liberals get jobs and find something better to do then bitch.
Liberalism: A Mental Disorder wrote:
^pretty much 100%. Also because God forbid Liberals get jobs and find something better to do then bitch.
It isnt just liberals though. Native Tribes have been pushing for this for decades. In fact there are some Reservations where 20 dollars bills are not accepted because of their dislike of Jackson.
Just now noisy upper middle class liberal white women have taken up the push.