Take Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill

MSNBC ^ | June 21, 2015 | Mary Kathryn Nagle

[2ndDivisionVet]

I hate using ATMs. It’s not the lines that bother me, nor is it the inevitable awkwardness of the person lurking behind you, seemingly in a rush and looking over your shoulder as you type. No, I hate ATMs because I know when I swipe my card, when the machine dispenses pieces of my livelihood, I have to see that face. His face. On the $20 bill.

When historian David Greenberg thinks of Andrew Jackson, he thinks of democracy. When I see Andrew Jackson, I think of my grandmother’s spit.

* * *

The trip was long. And for an eleven-year-old, somewhat painful. Wedged in the backseat between my younger sisters and their respective mountains of Barbies, the eight hour drive felt like an insufferable eternity.

Girls, my father’s voice would boom every time our incessant complaining crossed his fatherly-defined threshold: Quiet. We are going to visit the grave of a president.

When we finally arrived, I jumped out of our minivan and began exploring. But when I caught a glimpse of my grandma, my legs came to a standstill.

I watched as my grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my grandma spit. It wasn’t a casual spit. It was a once in a lifetime spit. I watched as the saliva of our ancestors flowed through her mouth and hit that grave with an echo that turned heads and stopped conversations.

She turned and walked straight back to the minivan. Let’s go. And so we left....

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Jackson’s work to increase the political power and wealth of lower-class white men at the expense of people of color and women is not worthy of celebration or reverence in a post-Fourteenth Amendment America.”

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is anyone else troubled, at the tendency of liberals to judge certain historic figures by the criteria of 21st century political.correctness, as opposed to the standards of the world they lived in???

[Blue Jays]

I am not going to visit MSNBC to learn the name of the author, yet it sounds like utter and complete fantasy.

[Red Badger]

So, we should replace him with Michael Jackson?......................

[headstamp 2]

Always.

Hiroshima comes to mind.

[rjsimmon]

Old Hickory was an American hero and the savior of New Orleans. He is worthy of admiration.

[headstamp 2]

More fiction from another lying liberal.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

With all the crap going on right now worldwide, you can always count on the left to focus on the most mundane things, who is on money, the confederate flag, global warming, gay marriage, meanwhile we have an absolute psychopath in the White House working overtime put an end to the USA, get nukes to Islamo-Nazis, destroy the world economy, all those lovely things liberals choose to ignore.

[Stentor]

Is anyone else troubled, at the tendency of liberals to judge certain historic figures by the criteria of 21st century political.correctness, as opposed to the standards of the world they lived in???

I'm more concerned that they believe that they have any right to tell me anything at all.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Her name is right above you.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

The life of the perpetually outraged ...what a crock of phony shi_

[alloysteel]

Fantasy is the stock in trade for a liberal propagandists.

There are not enough demons in the Universe to satisfy the perpetual guilt of liberals everywhere, they have to conjure more up out of their imaginations.

And even the Devil sighs at these fervid ramblings. There is only so much the supernatural can do, you know, and these are the Marvel “graphic novels” protagonists as compared to real life heroes. Wonderfully entertaining, but so far beyond the capabilities that now exist as to be only fiction, for many years to come.

[gr8eman]

Cripes! The writer of this crap probably has no idea that the Battle of N.O. happened or its significance.

[BenLurkin]

Yup. A American hero.

Until he got to Washington.

[cripplecreek]

This bad ass would be a great replacement for Jackson considering the political gamesmanship he employed to "screw" Michigan out of the Toledo strip. He gave the Toledo Strip to Ohio in return for Ohio delivering the democrat vote for president.

She sits atop the Sailors and Soldiers monument in Downtown Detroit. Her name is Victory.

[Michael.SF.]

So did granny hoc a lugie on the grave of FDR for his actions regarding American-Japanese in WWII?

[Ray76]

The measure now is not accomplishment but demographic.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Another article by a hate monger. Read at own risk.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d like to see him replaced on the Twenty by Larry the Cable Guy. In today’s economy, Americans really need a sense of humor.

[CyberAnt]

Wasn’t Hamilton (on the $10), A REPUBLICAN ..????

I believe that is the reason the LEFT has decided that the $10 bill is more appropriate than the $20.