THERE COULD BE A NEW FACE ON THE $20 BILL

I wholeheartedly support this. Get Andrew Jackson’s dusty ass off the 20. He was a slave owner and enacted the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which stripped Native Americans of their land.
Here are some quotes on Jackson to put into perspective how awful he was:

“Andrew Jackson was a wealthy slave owner and infamous Indian killer, gaining the nickname ‘Sharp Knife’ from the Cherokee,” writes Amargi on the website Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice. 

In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination. 

Jackson was not only a genocidal maniac against the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest, he was also racist against African peoples and a scofflaw who “violated nearly every standard of justice,” according to historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown. 

As a major general in 1818, Jackson invaded Spanish Florida chasing fugitive slaves who had escaped with the intent of returning them to their “owners”.

Jackson sparked the First Seminole War. During the conflict, Jackson captured two British men, Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, who were living among the Seminoles.   

After Jackson captured Arbuthnot, the trader sent a word of warning to his Indian friends under Chief Bowlegs: “The main drift of the Americans is to destroy the black population of Suwannee. Tell my friend Boleck, that it is throwing away his people to attempt to resist such a powerful force as will be down on Suwannee.”. Unfortunately for Arbuthnot, Jackson’s men found the letter and other papers when they attacked the Suwannee. These papers were dangerous materials for General Jackson. They threw, in the delicate phrasing of historian John Mahon, “some doubt on the official American position that the cause of the trouble rested solely on the Indians and their European abettors.”  Andrew Jackson was not interested in seeing the viewpoints of Arbuthnot and Ambrister reach a wide audience. He convened a military court, which promptly ordered their execution. Overnight, the officers of the court had misgivings about executing Ambrister and commuted his sentence. Jackson overruled them. On April 29, 1818, Arbuthnot was hanged from the masthead of his schooner and Ambrister was shot by a firing squad.

In executing the men, Jackson preserved the impression that Indians and outside agitators had created the problems in Florida. The two men, he said, had been “legally convicted as exciters of this savage and negro war; legally condemned, and most justly punished.”

“His actions were a study in flagrant disobedience, gross inequality and premeditated ruthlessness… he swept through Florida, crushed the Indians, executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, and violated nearly every standard of justice,” Wyatt-Brown wrote.”

Quoted from:
 http://www.johnhorse.com/trail/01/b/24.1.htm
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/20/indian-killer-andrew-jackson-deserves-top-spot-list-worst-us-presidents-98997

In 8th grade my white history teacher talked so positive of him, how fucking scary is that

They said the same thing but with Obama and some others on the bills, which is it???

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