Posted on 06/15/2015 8:47:13 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
He was a slave owner, hostile to the forces of abolitionism that were rising in America. He imposed a cruel policy of Indian removal, forcing the tribes of the Southeast across a brutal march to the Oklahoma territory. He was a hot-headed general, quick to violence and known to overstep his legal bounds, as when he summarily executed two Britons for aiding the Indian enemy during the First Seminole War.
On some levels, it’s easy to understand the campaign to remove Andrew Jackson’s mug from the $20 bill. Pundits are rushing to endorse the idea. The leading candidate to replace him appears to be the morally unimpeachable Harriet Tubman, who used the Underground Railroad to free herself and dozens of other slaves from bondage.
When Barack Obama first ran for president, he joked that he didn’t “look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.” It is certainly time for our currency to bear the faces of African Americans and women. But this admirable effort shouldn’t come at Andrew Jackson’s expense. Jackson was a deeply flawed president and in many ways a detestable man. Yet he was also a towering hero, key to birthing the expansive American democracy we know today. . .
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So?? What next, an Obama $3 bill?
Replace him with REAGAN!!
I did so want Valerie Jarrett, our president for the last 6+ years to be on it.
Even thinking about removing him is Microaggression.
I think whoever replaces Jackson on the 20 Bills will be a Trans Something or Other....
most likely both transgender and trans-racial
perhaps Barack Obama?
Hillary in a blue pant suit on the $20
A good savings plan: I’d hide them in a drawer someplace.
Andy knew how to throw a party, I’ll give him that.
An Obama -$3 bill would be more appropriate. Present it and it subtracts value from everything else.
Revisionism:(
I want my historical references kept in place, thank you.
A $3 bill with rotating faces drawn from the human zoo comprising cabinet members from the Clinton and Obama administrations.
He was the President who brought the Federal government’s debt down to zero. That’s reason enough to put him on a Thousand Dollar bill.
Let's put George Washington on the twenty, Jackson on the one, and 0bama on the three.
5.56mm
The Liberals have already decided, it will be a Leftist person of color...Guess in the future I will have to be careful as asking for tens will be deemed racist.
The denigration of Jackson today is largely the result of bankers, their elites and supporters. Jackson won election on an anti-bank platform and his battles with Nicholas Biddle, the head of the bank, were legend. The banks at that time were responsible for the deliberate creation of a depression to frighten the public into keeping the corrupt banking system. The fact that Jackson was the ultimate victor, sticks in their craw to this very day.
The story of the banking elites and Federal Reserve corruption is deftly told by G. Edward Griffin in his fantastic book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. Several chapters discuss Jackson and his battle for full government controlled currency, rather than the privately owned Fed paper we now have.
Hear hear!
Didn’t he stand up to the supreme court? If that is true, that is a great big plus.
None of the other presidents ever went to a gay bath house to have homosexual sex, most likely.
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