Posted on 06/22/2015 9:13:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I hate using ATMs. It’s not the lines that bother me, nor is it the inevitable awkwardness of the person lurking behind you, seemingly in a rush and looking over your shoulder as you type. No, I hate ATMs because I know when I swipe my card, when the machine dispenses pieces of my livelihood, I have to see that face. His face. On the $20 bill.
When historian David Greenberg thinks of Andrew Jackson, he thinks of democracy. When I see Andrew Jackson, I think of my grandmother’s spit.
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The trip was long. And for an eleven-year-old, somewhat painful. Wedged in the backseat between my younger sisters and their respective mountains of Barbies, the eight hour drive felt like an insufferable eternity.
Girls, my father’s voice would boom every time our incessant complaining crossed his fatherly-defined threshold: Quiet. We are going to visit the grave of a president.
When we finally arrived, I jumped out of our minivan and began exploring. But when I caught a glimpse of my grandma, my legs came to a standstill.
I watched as my grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my grandma spit. It wasn’t a casual spit. It was a once in a lifetime spit. I watched as the saliva of our ancestors flowed through her mouth and hit that grave with an echo that turned heads and stopped conversations.
She turned and walked straight back to the minivan. Let’s go. And so we left....
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I don’t like Jackson either so it wouldn’t bother me. Matter of fact put the lady on the 20 instead of the 10.
Just as long as he’s not replaced by Margaret Sanger or someone of her ilk. As a matter of fact, lets have someone who was not a politician. I tired of these hacks glorifying themselves.
The lock-step nature and thinking of liberals is truly frightening. If Hitler were alive and in the U.S. today, he’d have a field day with the liberals in this country.
Yes.
No.
Andrew Jackson, considered to be the father of he Democratic Party invented the “spoils system”, that turned the United States Government into a big candy machine for those who could wheedle their way into power.
If we are going to give up presidents on our paper money, why not put these up to the highest bidder and pay off some of Obama’s national debt?
Had a brief chat on Breitbart with one person.
I was idly wondering how soon would the SJWs want to replace Mt. Rushmore with the new faces of 21st Century America.
Our speculations ended that Lincoln and Roosevelt would stay (both are leftists’ heroes), SJWs will replace the other two with one Black and one woman. And the two you-know-who’s.
No fantasy. Jackson defied the Supreme Court and marched the five “civilized” tribes of the southeast at gun point to what is now Oklahoma. Known as The Trail of Tears, this incident is responsible for several different events that have changed American history. Cherokee allied with the Confederacy. David Crockett moving to Texas. The names, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Creek, Seminole and others now being associated with Oklahoma instead of the southeast where they historically lived.
No this is no fantasy. I can remember handing a tribal member a$20 Bill and being asked to please give him something else. Some of the descendents of the tribal members removed think of Jackson in similar to the way Jews think of Hitler.
Jackson was a founder of the Democrat Party therefore he must stay.
Lincoln freed slave so he grudgingly stays but has been usurped by the communists. (see spain in past)
Hamilton is a banker, a CAPITALIST! GASP! so he must be replaced by some other leftist new speak icon.
I would go along with the change of the photo on the $20 bill if it would be, for example, Marilyn Monroe’s famous Playboy photo or even the photo with her dress blowing up above her ‘hemline’! ;-)
Its like Mongolia deciding to hate Genghis Khan because of all the conquering. Nope, not going to happen.
‘Jackson’ reverberates from the eerie insides of a liberal, today, as ‘Nixon’ did in years past.
I don’t get this spitting thing, since the author of the article did not put any referring context into the beginning papragraph, ergo, no ‘hook’.
Jackson deserves to be on the $20 just for his accomplishments regarding the central bankers.
They were Cherokee Indians.
Jackson deserves to be on the $20 just for his accomplishments regarding the central bankers.
Andrew Jackson was the last President to pay off the national debt and he opposed the Federal Reserve.
They aren’t ignoring those things. Their role is to distract us from them, and they’re doing a damn good job of it.....
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