Should Andrew Jackson Stay on the 20 dollar bill?

[MrDawn]

Do you think we should keep Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill?

Jackson is even worse than his horrifyingly brutal record with regard to Native Americans indicates. Indian removal was not just a crime against humanity, it was a crime against humanity intended to abet another crime against humanity: By clearing the Cherokee from the American South, Jackson hoped to open up more land for cultivation by slave plantations. He owned hundreds of slaves, and in 1835 worked with his postmaster general to censor anti-slavery mailings from northern abolitionists. The historian Daniel Walker Howe writes that Jackson, "expressed his loathing for the abolitionists vehemently, both in public and in private."

Jackson's small-government fetishism and crank monetary policy views stunted the attempts of better leaders like John Quincy Adams to invest in American infrastructure, and led to the Panic of 1837, a financial crisis that touched off a recession lasting seven years. If that weren't enough, he was a war criminal who suspended habeas corpus and executed prisoners for minor infractions during his time as a general in the War of 1812.

Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. He deserves no place on our money.

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[Jason76]

Washington and Jefferson also owned slaves, though, maybe they seemed "softer and more humane". Jefferson was in fact, rumored to have "technically" raped one slave and father many children. Bottom line, how far should the renaming go?