Posted on 04/21/2016 7:31:49 AM PDT by Biggirl
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday came out against removing former President Andrew Jackson from the front of the $20 bill, saying "pure political correctness" is behind the move. "Andrew Jackson had a great history and I think it's very rough when you take somebody off the bill," Trump said during a town hall interview on NBC's "Today" show.
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Your degree must come from a department and institution that teaches a narrative that all of history is a story of evil, oppressive white man vs. the noble non-whites. In the wars between Indians and colonists/Americans, the main moral difference is that the Indians lost and we won. In fact, had the Indians won, they wouldn't have been so kind as to put whites on reservations with gambling rights, they would have wiped us out.
Many of those "innocent" Indians you PC types cry over were the terrorists of their day: raiding towns, killing or kidnapping non-combatant women, children, and old people.
Changing images on currency and replacing American forefathers with Tubman, or anyone else, is tantamount to goading the bare majority of Americans with brains to do something crazy.
Your post is ignorant and devoid of relevant facts that I won’t bother to respond any further. We’re talking about civilized Cherokees, not Apaches numnutz.
Never try to argue against political correctness with facts. It's a lost cause.
Actually, they are replacing Jackson, the slave-owning founder of the Democrat Party,with Tubman, a Republican Black woman who freed slaves and was so proud of her skill with a gun that she posed with her rifle on photographs.
That’s the true history that is never taught today.
They’ll eventually get around to expunging George Washington because he was a slave owner.
It wasn't meaningless to the inhabitants of New Orleans. I'd say there's a pretty big downside to having your city invaded by a foreign army, the whole place burned to the ground (as the Brits had done to D.C.), your women attacked, etc.
At that moment in New Orleans, wasn't the peace treaty signed several thousand miles away, which no one could know about, the thing that was meaningless? I'm definitely on Crockett's side where the Indian treaty issue was concerned, but I think we have to credit Old Hickory on this one.
MSM practice thought control. I suppose it would be “slavery” to have Ronald Reagan, General Eisenhower, General Doug. MacArthur on some bills, and since they don’t want it, they are Fascists and Hitler fans. I hope if Trump gets in he will put a stop to this crap.
Tubman is too ugly to be on the $20 bill and Jackson opposed the central bank which makes him a hero in my book.
Libtards will be libtards.
I guess you’re not familiar with the raids Cherokees carried out in what later became east Tennessee throughout the 18th and into the 19th century. Or you are familiar with it and just sweep it under the rug because it doesn’t fit your PC version of history.
$3 bill, nice! I bet that floats over a lot of millennial heads.
I agree with Mr Trump on this one. No disrespect to Tubman who was quite a hero but in the realm of American history she is a relatively minor figure who contributed very little to the nation at large.
US currency should be reserved for major figures of historical importance (Presidents etc.), those who had great influence on economic policy (Hamilton, Chase etc.) or symbolic figures in national history (Columbia, Liberty etc.).
Obama considers her a placeholder for his image.
“What’s “DEWM” stand for?”
Dead European white Males, I believe.
That looks like an assault rifle!
Could it be an AK-30/30?
Many patriots at the time opposed Jackson's Trail of Tears. Rep. David Crockett, whose grandparents had been murdered in an Indian raid before he was born, was Jackson's main public opponent in this. The Indians Jackson forced to move had long been abiding by a treaty, had grown civilized and prosperous, and were living under a tribal government modeled on our Federal one. It was a mystifying campaign by Jackson that was purely political in motivation.
Jackson's response to the controversy was to pour money into a campaign to unseat Crockett in Congress. Crockett lost, went to Texas, and died a hero at the Alamo.
There is a lot of Indian blood in white Americans but due to the stigma of the important people of the time, anyone who could pass for white did so and their ancestry was lost. In the frontier moved westward there was always a shortage of white women because there were no “malls” or good schools (or whatever was important to women at the time) on the frontier. Pioneers make do and there were a lot of mixed Americans.
I grew up near the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana and the last full-blooded Cheyenne died in the 1980s. Eastern Montana is still very empty and many Cheyenne, man and women equally, intermarry with the local whites. I myself dated a Northern Cheyenne girl and my sister dated a Cheyenne boy in high school. They are a very good looking people.
***Don’t tell the P.C. Police know Tubman was a gun toting Christian***
Several years ago someone made a mural of Tubman smuggling slaves into free states. Even though Tubman carried a pistol, the artist showed her with a rifle as he did not want to play up the “evil” HANDGUN angle.
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