Posted on 04/23/2016 10:27:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
In many of our history books today, Christopher Columbus did not discover America, instead he was a ruthless white European marauder who brutalized peaceful indigenous people and helped spread disease among their midst.
This type of historical revisionism was on full display this week when one of our greatest Presidents and military heroes, Andrew Jackson, was removed from the front of the $20 bill. Eventually, he will be featured on the back of the bill, while the image of Harriet Tubman, an African American slave who escaped and led hundreds of other slaves to freedom, will adorn the front.
These changes were among many announced by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to promote a more inclusive look to our currency. Along with Tubman being added to the $20 bill, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and opera singer Marian Anderson will be included on the back of the new $5 bill. Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all acclaimed women’s rights activists, will be highlighted on the back of the new $10 bill.
It will take over ten years for all of these changes to be completely implemented. However, announcing the new designs was a major step forward for the Obama administration and the culmination of years of planning and public input.
Originally, the image of Alexander Hamilton on the face of the $10 was slated to be removed, however, the nation’s first Treasury Secretary was saved by the popularity of “Hamilton,” a hip-hop musical on Broadway.
Unfortunately, Jackson did not have any rap artists on his side, he just had a history of fighting and sacrificing for his country. While Andrew Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, he lost the battle of political correctness over two hundred years later.
Of course Tubman is a great American who deserves to be honored, but not at the expense of Andrew Jackson, one of the most consequential figures in the history of our country. According to columnist Pat Buchanan, changing the face of the $20 bill “is affirmative action that approaches the absurd. Whatever one’s admiration for Tubman and her cause, she is not the figure in history Jackson was.”
Sadly, in today’s America, Jackson is no longer viewed as a successful two-term President, but as a plantation slave owner who mistreated Native Americans.
Ironically, Jackson is considered the founder of the modern Democrat Party, which hosts fundraisers in his name. The party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner also honors former President Thomas Jefferson, another giant of American history. However, since Jefferson and Jackson were both slave owners, the party of racial pandering has been canceling these dinners all across the country. In this day and age of political correctness our American heroes are now being judged by their country’s moral values two hundred years later.
As military leader, Andrew Jackson successfully fought Indians in Alabama and Georgia and suppressed a British uprising in Florida, seizing the area for his country. In his greatest victory, the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, Jackson led a disorganized and motley army of misfits to a tremendous victory against the most celebrated fighting force in the world, the British Army. In the process, he not only rescued New Orleans from being captured and the Mississippi River from being closed, but he also saved our country from being split in two by the British.
As President, Jackson was a strong fiscal conservative who railed against the national bank and reckless debt. He was the last President to actually run a surplus and pay off the country’s national debt. Ever since that time, we have accumulated $19.3 trillion in debt with no end in sight. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a President once again who believed in paying our country’s bills?
Andrew Jackson also opposed term limits and the power of a financial elite who worked against the interests of average Americans.
He was the original outsider who defeated a political system controlled by power brokers intent on expanding their own influence at the expense of the American people.
In 2016, angry citizens tired of being abused and mistreated are looking for a leader like Andrew Jackson once again. It is quite ironic that he is being demoted from our currency at the exact time he should be promoted as the model for the next President of the United States.
Tunman will never be on the $20. All will be quickly forgotten after Obama leaves office.
Which simply means the next administration can cancel all of this stupidity.
Tunman = Tubman
If Trump is the next Andrew Jackson he’ll be in the annals of exemplary history soon enough. Maybe Trump will go on the $1000 bill.
I find it hard to get overly excited against the idea of Tubman on our money. I think we should use that as an opportunity to let the Democrats know that they’ve been pushing a golden shackle slavery on the black people of America, and to let the black people of America know what slavery struggles really ARE about, which are an attempt to get freedom, not an attempt to be made anyone’s pets.
Why not replace Jackson with Reagan?
I personally would not complain about Tubman being there. What I would complain about would be a distorted rendition of her legacy, but again this is where the right (which ought to be staunchly anti-slavery both in ancient and modern forms) can take the bull by the horns and come out with a manifesto to cut off the left at the pass.
Replacing the founder of the modern democRAT party with a black female, gun-toting Republican sounds ok by me.
Just wait till liberals figure that one out. THEY’LL be screaming to replace her, or cancel the request.
Unfortunately that isn't very likely. If there's a democrat president, forget it. And if there's a pubbie they're too afraid of being tagged as racist and/or conducting a war on women.
I am of the opinion that if the left wants something, they can't have it.
I have long thought Jackson should be removed, but now that I know the left hates him, I'd rather keep him.
But yes, Reagan would be a worthy person to put on our currency.
I say embrace Tubman, a gun-toting, Democrat-shooting Republican, to replace Democrat Jackson.
Pinging LS!
I would be most interested in any comment you might make about this article. Thanks so very much! (I realize you already gave me a headstart on another thread, but would be very glad to have elaboration!)
Reagan on the $20 = Liberal heads exploding.
Good idea. =^)
CC
Why not leave it the hell alone? Why does the US mint have to spend our TAX money coming up with new ways to print the 20 or 10 or 5 dollar bills just to satisfy some PC revisionist?
I thought you tRump supporters did not believe in PCness?
Leave well enough alone and quit wasting my money.
I do not believe that there is any way in H3ll that Hillary is going to win this election. If she does, I'll start rooting for the Norks or Iranians to nuke us, because a nation so vile just needs to DIE!!!!!!
I'm serious. If we let that hate-hag into power, we all need to turn against this nation and hope for it's downfall. There would be nothing worthy about the USA to support.
It would be in the manner that it was when the Nazis took over Germany. The best thing that could happen is an utter collapse and defeat.
I think we know the hay that the left WANTS to make out of Tubman.
But this doesn’t mean that they have to succeed.
I see this as a marvelous opportunity to open up a dialogue on the black America situation that is based on truth and not lies. That these people have been hankering for the wrong thing, coaxed into it by certain white “liberals” who used words rather than irons but have achieved an equally nefarious result.
I’d gladly be part of penning a manifesto from the right about this. I suspect our pal Windy would be, too. Freedom and the dignity it affords before God Himself is the name of the game. Being some humans’ pet shouldn’t be.
He was a great guy. A patriot through and through. Fought central banks. Brought the presidency to represent the people on the Frontier.
Tubman was worthy of solid respect aND commemoration.
We should honor both of them by putting Tubman on the $500 bill. $500 is worth astronomically more than it was during Jackson’s day. This would vindicate Jackson and honor Tubman at the same time. That’s my Solomon wisdom of the day.
I think the Tubman effort would make more sense. Because it would open up an opportunity to talk about an actual sore point in American history.
Blacks were enslaved. There is zero doubt about this. And it lasted after Abraham Lincoln, only with the old irons replaced with things that were more insidious. With shackles of lies that they had to be pets.
It just tells me once again that our fiat, unbacked currency is simply a very ephemeral political construct.
It does provide the opportunity to point out that until the 1960’s most blacks were Republicans and that the Democrat party was the party of Jim Crow and the Klan was their para-military wing.
They now have them on a plantation of a different kind, government give-aways.
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