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.
The story is wrong: both Harding and Coolidge ran surpluses every single year. They paid off 1/3 of the debt under much tougher circumstances, coming off of a war.
They actually sold off parts of the government.
Jackson “hated” elites, unless they were his.
Good general, below average prez.
tit for tat. I like it.
I’m afraid the rats idea of negotiation is this:
We’ll settle for 50% of what we want now, and will come back in the future for the other 50%.
Let it all out...tell us how you really feel.
Exactly!
This could really be used against the 'rats.
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
How come none of us heard of this until after the decision was made?
Right, but that feature of the the commie libs has always
been and will always be there. We have to fight the battles
as they come. Much change is inevitable. Our job is to
channel it in our preferred direction. They must give to
get at ALL times.
A successful white man, American loving hero is not the person Emperor Obama wants. Rather, look for Che to be the next figure on American money.
All in the name of Obama’s legacy.........he truly is a despicable person, one upon whose rotting corpse even the maggots refuse to feast...........
This seems somewhat undermined by his forced removal of Cherokee and other Indian tribes, many of whom owned and had clear title to their lands, from the southeast to the west along "The Trail of Tears". Frontiersman David Crockett, who earlier admired Jackson, came to hate him for it.
Red, I’m not sure how I feel about trying to drag black folks away from the liberal mind control plantation. There’s a certain kind of ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ at work with most of them.
Many moons ago, when I made my own escape, I did my level best to open the eyes of fellow black slaves, but all I got for my efforts were snarling condemnation and ostracism. The ones I talked to, honestly could not see the razor wire and guard towers to save their lives. It was very frustrating for me, and it led me to the realization that enlightenment and cognition are very personal things.
As the old folks used to say, ‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.’
I do know that, right now, there are lots of emancipated blacks who are telling the truth to those who remain enslaved to the political left, and I suppose some of them are getting the message through. It’s a huge and thankless job, for the most part, I’d say. You almost have to be from that cultural subset to fully appreciate the enormity of the task.
It took generations of hard, diligent work, to re-enslave that entire culture, and it will take a similar degree of effort to free them once again. I still don’t know that it’s my calling to take on that responsibility, though I do sometimes reflect on the question, ‘If not me, then whom?’
Bible thumper, too.
:)
Jackson was the greatest American of all time. Read the history of our founding. He was the leader of the "common man", a great warrior, carried lead bullets in his body from duels, a real man's man.
the loss of Jackson signals that this nation has now officially gone GAY./
[[Why not Reagan?]]
Reagan callously allowed millions of homosexuals to have six anus partners at night and die by the millions.
“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 think Trump has ‘the right stuff’ to become a historic president, and I mean, in a good way. He’s got the skill set, the tools, and the experience. It just remains to be seen whether he’ll correctly employ all three to do what must be done to save our embattled country.
If he just follows through on his central campaign promises, we will truly make this country great again, and it’s a fair bet that the people will want to see him represented on our currency in the future.
Take your liberal talking points and your wooooois me BS and post it to someone else.
I dare you to make me.
Taking the slavery issue by the horns is not “liberal” talking points. It’s shutting “liberals” up.
It could be a self invited curse that is so powerful it can’t be escaped.
As a paleface I still want to try, if only to try to shut up the other palefaces who are gaming the black population of the USA and bringing shame down upon the entire melange.
If justice had its way, Democrat would be an earned dirty word alongside of KKK.
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