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The USA just kicked President Jackson off the front of the $20 bill, and his genocide was part of the reason he was the least respected money face. The "Trail
by sukilot 10y ago
The USA just kicked President Jackson off the front of the $20 bill, and his genocide was part of the reason he was the least respected money face.
The "Trail of Tears" is a major unit in several years of K-12 education.
- acjohnson55 10y agoOf course, one might wonder how Jackson has been on the $20 for this long to begin.
- adventured 10y agoThat's pretty straight-forward. Until the last ~30-50 years the vast majority of the US population held a high or at worst neutral opinion of Jackson. From, say, 1928-1960 there was practically no wide-spread criticism of Jackson's personal history regarding Native Americans (or any of his other terrible beliefs). Consider that FDR is still very highly regarded by the left in the US, despite the fact that he was a blatant racist and interned a hundred-thousand Japanese-Americans.
- nihonde 10y agoSounds like progress. We shouldn't forget the oppressors, but we also shouldn't honor them.