Dishonoring Jackson for Affirmative Action Absurdity

World Net Daily ^ | 5/24/16 | Pat Buchanan

[ek_hornbeck]

In Samuel Eliot Morison’s “The Oxford History of the American People,” there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.

“An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.”

Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War – Andrew Jackson.

Slashed by a British officer in the Revolution, and a POW at 14, the orphaned Jackson went west, rose to head up the Tennessee militia, crushed an Indian uprising at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, in the War of 1812, then was ordered to New Orleans to defend the threatened city.

In one of the greatest victories in American history, memorialized in song, Jackson routed a British army and aborted a British scheme to seize New Orleans, close the Mississippi and split the Union.

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[ek_hornbeck]

Harriet Tubman's achievement: helping rescue a few dozen escaped slaves, mostly her family and friends.

Andrew Jackson's achievements: Revolutionary war veteran, hero of the War of 1812, saving the union from secession with the tariff compromise... the list continues.

Who gets honored on the $20? Harriet Tubman, because we need "women and minorities" on our currency. If that isn't one of the worst cases of posthumous affirmative action at work, I don't know what is.

[dp0622]

And you can’t turn this back.

But I only use cash maybe twice a month now.

it will go to 0 soon.

Obama will leave nothing left by the end of his 270 days.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I don’t mind changing the portraits on our currency. Nothing is set in stone. Many other countries use their currency to honor artists and monuments so I don’t think we need to have presidents, politicians or Founding Fathers on our currency. The only danger, to me, is the embarrassment that comes when you have political correctness run amok. If they go too far in finding transgender lesbian Marxists to put on the currency, its going to be yet another sign of decline. But putting Tubman on doesn’t bother me much.

[Beowulf9]

So sick of this admin.

[wbarmy]

Actually, I am pleased to see Harriet Tubman on the bill.

I will then use that picture as a conversation starter on Christ, on the Republican Party, on the 2nd Amendment, or on self-sacrifice; as the need fits.

There will be a lot of liberals who will rue the day her picture was put on the twenty.

I especially like the line of removing the founder of the Democratic Party and replacing him with a gun owning, Christian, member of the Republican Party.

[onedoug]

...the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington....

...Which 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.

[Jack Hammer]

Yet another obama-era absurdity.

We’ve been through the looking glass for so long, some folks actually take it all as in some peculiar way ‘normal.’

[odawg]

The “trail of tears” was provoked when the Cherokee and allied tribes annihilated another tribe down to the last Indian, save one female, who they thought was too pretty to kill. Jackson stated such behavior should not occur in the United States.

[rlmorel]

I don’t have a problem with Tubman herself...I have a problem with the pandering aspect of this.

This thing needs a vagina, this thing needs someone black or hispanic, this other one needs a GLBTXQZ or whatever.

THAT aspect of it really rubs me the wrong way.

To be honest (though the situation is a bit different) there is a US Navy destroyer to be named after Carl Levin. Even though I think there are a lot more deserving people than Tubman, I would be less angry if they even named the destroyer after her than Levin.

[taxcontrol]

Hey, if we start telling people that we support Tubman because she was a christian, gun toting Republican, they will drop her like hot iron.

[ek_hornbeck]

don’t mind changing the portraits on our currency. Nothing is set in stone. Many other countries use their currency to honor artists and monuments so I don’t think we need to have presidents, politicians or Founding Fathers on our currency. The only danger, to me, is the embarrassment that comes when you have political correctness run amok. If they go too far in finding transgender lesbian Marxists to put on the currency, its going to be yet another sign of decline. But putting Tubman on doesn’t bother me much.

I would have no objection to Jackson being removed if he were replaced with someone of equal or greater historical significance. There are probably at least a thousand political figures, military commanders, industrialists, scientists, and authors who are more important to our nation's history and heritage than Harriet Tubman. She's there in their place as a posthumous affirmative action hire.

[repentant_pundit]

ObaMao will probably remove (slaveholder) George Washington from the $1 bill, in favor of (emancipator) Lincoln.

Allowing Jackson to go onto the $5.

So the new $5 bill will become known as the Jackson Five.

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[Iron Munro]

Hopefully the next president will stop this race based attack on our history.

But there is no doubt we can expect more idiocy from Obama between now and January.

Everything is does is transparently motivated by his primary life influences and interests:

1. - Racial hate and bitterness
2. - Fidelity to Islam
3. - Dope smoking and cocaine snorting
4. - Homosexual mentors and affairs
5. - Socialism
6. - Hate and resentment for white American culture
7. - Anarchy

He stirs up black hate.
He advances Islam at every opportunity.
He whines about unfair prison sentences for drug dealers and commutes their prison terms.
He has pushed the homosexual agenda on America since he assumed the presidency.
He attacks capitalism and business while scheming to redistribute wealth.
He doesn’t hide his dislike for “Bitter Clingers”, patriots, Christians, American history and tradition.
He is a tyrant, ignoring law and the constitution, and seizing power like Lenin, Stalin or Mao Tse-tung.

We will be fortunate if he actually leaves the White House when his elected term is over.

[higgmeister]

Dishonoring Jackson for Affirmative Action Absurdity

I am glad he is gone from our currency! He dishonored our nation by murdering thousands of people of "The Five Civilized Tribes" on "The Trail of Tears."

Just as satisfying is that it strikes down the founder of the Democrat party.

[OneVike]

I personally don't have a problem with her replacing Jackson. With help form other Christians, Tubman helped set up the underground railroad that freed thousands of slaves. I also hold Jacksomn indirectly responsible for the death of another great American, Davey Crockett.

I don't mean to take anything away from Jackson, who was the hero of the battle of New Orleans, even if the war of 1812 was technically over before the battle even began. However, his greatness has always been greatly exaggerated.

Just look into history and you will see how Jackson was the Washington establishment of the day to the then outsider Crockett, long before we realized the establishment was not good for America.

I won't even get into one of the most heinous crimes in American history called the "trail of Tears", that Jackson was directly responsible for. After all, when the left attacks the US for being cruel to the Indians, we can thank Jackson.

[fr_freak]

If they go too far in finding transgender lesbian Marxists to put on the currency, its going to be yet another sign of decline.

Honestly, people, including Freepers, really need to understand that there is no decline - we've already reached the bottom. What once was the United States of America is now a corpse. What you are seeing now is not decline - one cannot decline farther than being dead - what you are seeing now is the decay of the corpse. When a body dies, at first, it looks like a living body, then slowly pieces begin to rot and liquify and the whole thing begins to stink. We are in the rotting stage.

The distinction is important because too many people are in holding mode, still clinging to the same old attitudes and tactics that failed to prevent death in the first place, and resisting recognition of the current reality, which leads to resistance to the logical next steps. Once the patient has died, you don't continue to administer anti-biotics and go looking for yet another blanket to get him warm - you say "Oh crap he's dead" and you bury him and move on.

The USA is dead. Either we do what we need to do to make another one, or we accept that it is gone. No more of this "Weekend at Bernie's" nonsense.

[wtd]

I cannot post images but this one relieves any concern about this change: That Awkward Moment When leftist feminists find out Harriet Tubman - Who they voted to kick Andrew Jackson, founder of the democratic party - off of the $20 bill - was a gun toting, democrat shooting, 2nd Amendment supporting REPUBLICAN

[ek_hornbeck]

Sure, let's just ignore the fact that Jackson was a hero of the War of 1812 and gave us the state of Florida, while Tubman is just a footnote to history. And if you want to play the moral purity blame game, perhaps you need to be reminded that Saint Harriet aided the mass murderer and terrorist John Brown.

Obama, Jack Lew, and #BlackLivesMatter thank you for your support. Political correctness isn't unique to the Democratic Party, after all.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I agree. What the “liberals” intended as an “up yours” will turn right back on them.

Whatever Jackson did, it wasn’t to help what might have been America’s biggest sin.

[OneVike]

Oh, by the way, that picture is not Harriet Tubman though.

I did not find out till someone I work with told me. So to set the record straight;

The woman in the picture is actually a 60 year old post office stage coach driver Mary Fields. AKA Stagecoach Black Mary (c. 1832–1914.

I guess she was the first African-American woman employed as a mail carrier in the United States and the second woman to work for the United States Postal Service.

Mary Fields stood 6 feet tall and weighed about 200 lbs. She liked to smoke cigars, and was once said to be as “black as a burnt-over prairie.” She usually had a pistol strapped under her apron and a jug of whiskey by her side.

Few Indians or robbers messed with her due to her reputation of shooting first and asking questions later. She retired and lived to be 80.