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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Andrew Jackson like all people was a product of his time. He served America well and judging him by 21st Century standards is revisionist and inaccurate. Everybody hated and feared the Indians. If you have a History degree I would think it would have given you some perspective.
Tubman is part of an ongoing desperate effort to find significant blacks in US history.
She is a particularly good subject... since almost nothing concrete is really known about her. Thus almost anything can be made up to make her seem larger than life.
But the sad fact is, even if she had John Henry strength and personally carried 500 slaves on her back to freedom while beating off confederate soldiers with a donkeys jaw bone she wouldn’t be worthy of being covered in a US history course. Maybe an in depth course on the civil war might mention the under ground railroad in passing, but a general survey course of US history? no way.
Yes, release a new $500 note, she can be on it, good idea.
Tubman was a minor historical figure. Jackson was a giant, both as a general and as president. His trail of tears history must be seen in the context of the battles he wages against the murderous Seminoles from Spanish Florida, whom he defeated and then took the state. He was a slave-owner...so was every Founder. Big whoop. Jackson was the last president to eliminate the national debt, and also fought those trying to establish a Federal Reserve in his time (and he won).
Nobody had reason to hate or fear the civilized tribes that were forcibly relocated to OK. The Cherokees were completely civilized and peaceful. They didn't fight the unjust policies of Washington and Georgia with tomahawks and arrows...they took them to court, all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Twice.
This move is simply a way to continue racial division long after Obama is gone. He simply can’t help it. Some idiot will deface the bills and it will make national news about how racist the nation remains. I will go on and on and on. Guaranteed.
Yep, asked everyone that Iknow and not a person knew who the hell she was. I guess Katlin Jenner goes on the $3 bill next!-)
Was Tubman's contribution to our nation's history as significant and indispensable as any of the men whose portraits now appear on our currency? No, it was not.
In fact, we should be changing the notes more frequently, not once every 90 years. I would say to keep Washington on the $1 note, but everyone else is changeable.
In other words, every few years we'll be replacing Founding Fathers and other historically significant figures with politically correct footnotes to history. Here's a likely scenario: out with Franklin, in with Cesar Chavez or Harvey Milk on the $100. No thanks.
A radio station went on the street tonsee how many people knew who Harriot Tubman was. It was only 1 person... I believe she was a Republican and replace a democrat! ...now what about 20 years down the road she gets replaced with aomeone white, will people say that is “racist”? ...finally this is juat another distraction. We have have terrorist crossing the bkrder and come in as refugees. Obama would rather we talk about this. He probably has something controversial planned every week ftill the end of his presidency.
The next President can put Obama’s crap in Budget Cuts
What's "DEWM" stand for?
Great answer!
No go take the one you said about transgender Bathrooms back because the VAST majority don’t want them using bathrooms of the other sex!
No other commander ever got better fighting from his Indian allies than did Andrew Jackson at Horseshoe Bend.
Jackson's epic, one-sided victory over British regulars, using what the British considered mongrel American troops, was the battle that convinced the British that the United States was never going to be a colony again. Fact.
Just make a $30 dollar bill.
The progressives know that if nothing is constant and in flux then the citizens will be confused and easily led. It is as simple as that.
Most importantly, Andrew Jackson broke the power of the duopoly of the early years of the Republic, where power was shared between the Tidewater aristocracy and the mercantile interests of the Northeast. The farmers who were settling the Appalachians, the Ohio Valley, and the Mid-South were poorly represented by the two elites, as was the growing working class in the East Coast cities. While Jackson was as wealthy as any of his predecessors, except Washington, he was a common man, the son of recently arrived Scots-Irish immigrants to the Carolina Piedmont. He grew up in poverty.
He was a slaveholder, but so were four of the first six Presidents. He waged war against the Indians and expelled them from their ancestral homelands, but so did Lincoln and Grant. Washington and Jefferson were also advocates of aggressive settlement of whites throughout the continent.
For the PC sins of being a slaveholder and supporting dispossession of the Indian nations, every President or major important official prior to 1900 should be expunged from the currency. We would have to destroy Washington and Jefferson's monuments, and maybe those to Theodore Roosevelt, who believed in Nordic supremacy as well and who waged war against the Muslim terrorists in the Philippines.
Many Cherokees stayed who did not desire to live under Indian government. Many settlers were part-Indian.
When the Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims and killed all the troops and settlers, most of those inside the fort were “breeds” as were many of the attacking Indians.
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