I am thrilled to see Harriet Tubman will be honored on American currency. She was a hero of great courage and moral conscience. It is also wonderful to finally see a woman represented on American money. Not to mention that it is fantastic to see an African-American represented on our currency. This is a great move on so many accounts. There is nothing bad to say about this change except this...
They are still keeping Andrew Johnson's image on the $20 bill albeit in a different form and on the back side of the bill.
He should be removed entirely.
No one on American currency is perfect. But who are you going to replace? Washington? Lincoln? Franklin? Hamilton? Grant might be debatable since he did oversee one of the most corrupt and scandalous White House administrations in history. However...
Andrew Jackson? Not really a debate.
In no particular order...
Andrew Jackson was against paper money. He was a strict adherent to the gold standard and made it illegal for people to use currency to buy federal lands. Only gold or silver coins could be used which caused the Great Panic of 1857 and led our nation into its worst economic depression until the 1930's. He was against the idea of a national bank. To have his image on currency has long been a ridiculous joke.
He murdered a guy in a duel.
As a general he illegally declared martial law in New Orleans and had federal judges arrested. He suspended due process and shut down all opposition newspapers. Hundreds arrested with no due process.
He owned hundreds of slaves. He was virulently against abolition.
He broke federal law as a land speculator by buying and selling Indian land already protected by Federal treaty.
He forcibly removed thousands of Indians out of Georgia, against their will, in an act of ethnic cleansing. He did this to make room for many more plantations worked by thousands of slaves.
He summarily executed prisoners of war during the Creek Indian Wars.
The list goes on and on. How this guy was ever honored on our currency is beyond me. This is not liberal propaganda. This is simply the truth, the facts...facts that Jackson was proud of and wrote about freely.
So yes, I wish Jackson was off our currency for good. And it was way past time for a woman and African-American be so honored.
The only people that seem to be upset by this change are white males. Hmmmmm.
