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Title: Keep Jackson On The $20 Bill
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The Daily Wire
URL Source: https://www.dailywire.com/news/4844 ... kson-20-bill-michael-j-knowles
Published: Jun 15, 2019
Author: Michael J. Knowles
Post Date: 2019-06-19 13:33:16 by X-15
Keywords: Jackson, Tubman
Views: 673
Comments: 6
Everyone these days seems to hate the founder of the Democratic Party. Andrew Jackson’s national historical turmoil first began in 2015, when Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced plans to replace a different dead white man, Alexander Hamilton, with a woman — any woman — on the $10 bill. Hamilton dodged erasure thanks to the popularity of a biographical Broadway hip-hop musical about him, prompting Lew to announce the following year that Jackson would lose his spot on the $20 bill to abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman. Leftists cheered the removal of a man they imagine to have perpetrated genocide against Native Americans. Many Republicans celebrated the monetary ouster of the man who founded the Democratic Party. Both sides sell our seventh president short. Fortunately in May, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced plans to delay the Tubman $20 until 2028. With any luck, Americans will spend the ensuing years disabusing themselves of the revisionist smears against Jackson, a war hero and reformer president unfairly blamed for things he never did. During the War of 1812, Jackson successfully and unexpectedly repelled invading British troops from New Orleans. The outnumbered Americans under Jackson’s command successfully prevented the British from gaining a foothold in the southern territories. Jackson’s victory engendered a renewed sense of unity and purpose in a nation that had by then defeated the most powerful empire on earth twice over the course of three decades. In 1828, Jackson’s war heroism helped to propel him to the White House, where he instituted a series of anti-corruption reforms including investigations into all cabinet offices and departments. Jackson’s campaign chased corrupt officials out of the government and reduced waste and abuse, freeing up funds that he would use to enable widows of Revolutionary War veterans to receive their husbands’ pensions. Jackson also distinguished himself as the only president in American history to pay off the national debt. Jackson’s critics assail him for presiding over the “Trail of Tears,” but the brutal Cherokee “Trail of Tears” began in May 1838, a full year after Jackson left office. Jackson did indeed support the policy of Indian Removal, an inevitable consequence of persistent conflicts between settlers and natives, but on roughly 70 occasions Jackson secured the relocation of Indians through negotiated treaties and federal payments totaling millions of dollars. The process of Indian Removal extended far beyond the presidencies of Andrew Jackson or even Martin Van Buren, ultimately spanning the administrations of nine separate presidents with official support from Congress. Moreover, as the Smithsonian reminded readers last year, the prevalence of wealthy, slave-holding Indians who marched their own black slaves down the "Trail of Tears" complicates the neat historical narrative preferred by modern revisionists. The historical record also shatters the caricature of Jackson as some sort of Indian-hating, genocidal bigot. In fact, he appears to have held no personal animosity toward Indians at all. After the Battle of Tallushatchee during the Creek War, Jackson adopted an Indian orphan whose own village had rejected him. Jackson, an orphan himself, took pity on the boy, named him Lyncoya Jackson, brought him back to his home in Tennessee, and educated him alongside his other adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr. Other critics attack Jackson as a lawless, imperial president for his famous dismissal of the Supreme Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia, when he remarked, “[Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.” Putting aside the merits of the case, there is no evidence that Jackson ever actually uttered his famous remark, which comes to us third-hand and without citation from newspaper publisher and politician Horace Greeley by way of the Massachusetts congressman George N. Briggs. Jackson’s many virtues do not mean he lacked moral flaws. He held slaves. But then so did George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. If we are to remove Jackson from the $20 bill for his complicity in slavery, must we also remove Jefferson from the $2 bill and Washington from the $1 bill? Harriet Tubman accomplished many great feats in her courageous life, for which she has been honored with national parks and memorials in New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Perhaps we ought also to put her face on some new denomination of money. One can imagine bestowing such an honor on many other fine people who helped to build this country: Christopher Columbus, William Bradford, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and Ronald Reagan all come to mind. Their honor need not come at the expense of Andrew Jackson. Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past. Poster Comment: "The writer won't say it but we will: petulant blacks and their Marxist enablers want Harriet Tubman on the bill in order to further their sticking it to whitey." -Frank Roman
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
The irony goes much deeper than this. Jackson shutdown the Second Bank of the United States after a lot of political & economic warfare waged by that central bank, and the shutdown was so successful it wasn't replaced by the Fed Reserve for another 70 years. Jackson hated central banking and as I see it, their putting his likeness on their Central bank issue $20 bill was intended as a longstanding postmortem insult to Jackson, though I don't know the decision making process behind that. I'm sure if Jackson could express his wishes, he'd demand his face be taken off the $20 bill. And here today everyone thinks his image on the bill is an honor and some want him removed because they despise him, when in reality Jackson would be pleased beyond measure if that were to happen. The right way to honor him is to put his likeness on a gold or silver coin.
It would be painful for the Federal Reserve (good!), but I would be in favor of gradually bringing our currency back to a gold/silver/copper standard and not honoring US dollars used outside of America in other countries as a substitute currency (Zimbabwe/Liberia/et al). Then, gut the Federal Reserve and abolish our "debt". “With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." Put Tubman on the fifty, it would be the right thing to do.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Haha!! I see what you did there!!
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." I thought that you, and others, might approve that sort of virtue-signaling.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
If they want a female on the bill: Christy Canyon, if a black female, Ebony Ayers. BTW: every time I see a picture of Tubman, she looks like she has to take a shit real bad and cannot.
#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)
The right way to honor him is to put his likeness on a gold or silver coin.
-Alex Kurtagic 
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: Lod (#3)
-Alex Kurtagic
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