If only liberals CONSISTENTLY applied their cultural relativism...
We can excuse Islamic savages in the modern day doing WORSE.... but we cannot make excuses for a more savage time in our own damned past....
If only liberals CONSISTENTLY applied their cultural relativism...
We can excuse Islamic savages in the modern day doing WORSE.... but we cannot make excuses for a more savage time in our own damned past....
This is a decent article worth reading. I am Choctaw. We helped “Old Hickory” at the Battle of New Orleans, and earlier in the Creek and British War. We’ve hated Jackson sine he and his Blue Coats forced us off our well cultivated lands for his Democrat slave owning buddies in 1830.
But at the end of the day, he’s dead. He’s an historic figure. Gee, just leave him on the $20.00 bill. He was both good and bad, but a man of his times who did in fact change our Nation.
That’s just my opinion.
Old player
He paved the way for Sam Houston—Elizabeth Warren’s blood brother—to become President of Texas and eventually a citizen of the United States again.
“...the power behind the legislation that forced five peaceful American Indian tribes from their homelands and triggered the Trail of Tears, a 1,000-mile death march that would leave 4,000 of 16,000 Cherokees dead along the way.”
Another myth. Jackson drove them out because three tribes ganged up and annihilated another tribe, and Jackson said that that should not be happening in the United States. The Trail of Tears was so-called because it was the whites who cried upon seeing the plight of the Indians. The Indians did not cry and would not accept offered food and clothing. The passed through silently, carrying their dead.
Typical bedwetters explanation of a man with guts.
Andrew Jackson was a man who lived up to his own standards. His relationship with his wife’s first husband was as colorful as you can imagine. When his wife died from illness, he became a very bitter about how she had been treated by America’s high society of the time and the politicians that were part of it. He is the Democrat Party’s 1st Jackass. He is also responsible for taking the Presidential Election away from the Senate and giving it to the citizens, who in turn re-elected him for his 2nd term as President... He has earned his place in history and on the $20.
He is now scheduled to be replaced as the image on the $20 bill
Didn’t Trump stop this?
Even though the article mentions the “negatives” of Jackson, it’s purpose seems to be to point out the positive.
Nevertheless, I find it a bit comical that references to the trail of tears from someone in NO forgets to point out that a substantial portion of the french population in NO were forced migrants from Canada during the French and Indian War. They’re known as the “Acadian French”, whose plight was dramatized in the Longfellow poem “Evangeline”.
Andrew Jackson, like all of us, was a mixed bag. There were some really bad things, and there were some very good things.
I remember seeing some anti-Jackson Coffin bills at Gilcrease Institute and Museum in Tulsa years ago. After reading them you would have thought Jackson was the devil incarnate.