andrew jackson

[amy]

so whenever you get a $20 bill, get rid of it as quickly as possible, and crumple it all up, and scribble on it with pencil, so they have to recall it fast

[Ceraziefish]

Oh, don't worry, I do get rid of them as quickly as possible.

[amy]

ololol (I am sure you're in the right place)

you know he had an adopted Creek son named Lyncoya. Lyncoya died of a lung disease (TB?) at age 16, and he said that the moral was God never meant whites and Indians to coexist

(Trail of Tears of course - after it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, he wittily quipped, Well, let the Supreme Court enfoce that. Hahaha)

and he appointed "Justice" Taney

who later supported the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that legally slavery could exist in all states.

He said:

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

Here is his grave

check out the grass, man

[Gundampilotspaz]

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."

I like those two quotes. :huh:

[margot]

I like those two quotes.

and you hate the black people!

[amy]

I like those two quotes.

He told the SUPREME COURT to go ENFORCE ITS OWN RULING

And I guess he couldn't acknowledge that he was wrong cause he was an entitled white supremacist till the day he died

http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

[Gundampilotspaz]

and you hate the black people!

He told the SUPREME COURT to go ENFORCE ITS OWN RULING

Well you didn't say that is where those quotes are from. Should of been more specific. But if taken out of that context and put in a more general sense, it is probably what he believed and it is very ture.

Just by reading them I can't see anything racist or wrong about the quotes. I can see how they can be used for those purposes.

[amy]

it's funny cause he never acknowledged he was in error, and because he abused his position.

[amy]

if you look up adolf hitler quotes, he at least told the truth.

[amy]

Here is his grave

check out the grass, man

look at the TREES!!

[Juxtapose]

Well....as my history teacher told me: You have to imagine yourself during those times. People believed differently then they do now.

So in other words, if you were raised during those times....how do you think you would've acted?

[No Sad Endings]

I like those two quotes.

Obviously those quotes are nice quotes, the point is THEY ARE IRONIC xD

[No Sad Endings]

Well....as my history teacher told me: You have to imagine yourself during those times. People believed differently then they do now.

So in other words, if you were raised during those times....how do you think you would've acted?

As an intellegent and educated person I assume I would oppose those things. Like intellegent and educated people did then, too. That's just the thing. Andrew Jackson was neither very intellegent nor very educated. xD

[Juxtapose]

I think he even got plastered during his inauguration party~ xD

....Or I might be thinking of somebody else. :x

[No Sad Endings]

I think that was ol' andrew, actually. He was a total hick, man. It's like my history teacher in HS said, how he was all on about being a working man's president, and it wasn't neccesary to have a high level of education to be president, and the government should be on level with the people, and all that kinda bullshit. Andrew Jackson didn't want it so anyone could be president. He wanted it so he could be president.

[Suga Babe]

who the hell is andrew jackson...?

[No Sad Endings]

...seventh president of the United States...

[Ceraziefish]

OH GOD HE'S BACK FROM THE DEAD IN STYLISH BLUUUUUUE~!

[Gundampilotspaz]

The ellipses on each side of your sentence seem to show that you think that we should definately know this.

You should at least know he was a President. He is on the fucking twenty.

I say we put Jefferson on the twenty.

[Suga Babe]

...seventh president of the United States...

oh...

The ellipses on each side of your sentence seem to show that you think that we should definately know this.

exactly! thats what im thinking...

You should at least know he was a President. He is on the fucking twenty.

I say we put Jefferson on the twenty.

uh...are you forgetting we're not american? :huh:

[Gundampilotspaz]

uh...are you forgetting we're not american?

Yes

[Suga Babe]

Yes

oh...well, neither I nor Burb are american...

see, i've heard of other american presidents, just not this one

and i have an american 20, soo...its that guy eh. i've never seen him before [well, except on the bill]...

[amy]

i can understand people in Canada not knowing who he is (xD The only president of another country I know is like Winston Churchill)

:P What I can't understand is US citizens thinking there's something okay about this guy. I was so disappointed to see that his grave was still standing. I imagined it would be covered with graffiti and cracking apart from tourist guns. If you look on all these websites, they endorse him. What the fuck.

Britt, even by 1826 standards, Jackson was radically anti-black and native. The Supreme Court's verdict against the Trail of Tears should show that.

I think Martin Luther King should go on the $20 bill, but Jefferson would be ok as well

[margot]

i can understand people in Canada not knowing who he is (xD The only president of another country I know is like Winston Churchill)

:P What I can't understand is US citizens thinking there's something okay about this guy. I was so disappointed to see that his grave was still standing. I imagined it would be covered with graffiti and cracking apart from tourist guns. If you look on all these websites, they endorse him. What the fuck.

Britt, even by 1826 standards, Jackson was radically anti-black and native. The Supreme Court's verdict against the Trail of Tears should show that.

I think Martin Luther King should go on the $20 bill, but Jefferson would be ok as well

"Laura Croft looks like my girlfriend only my girlfriend has bigger boobs and a smaller waste and longer legs. I don't even play games cause she's so hot and we make out all day so your all loosers. I'd send a picture but I'm too busy TOUCHING HER nerds hahaa"

[Suga Babe]

i can understand people in Canada not knowing who he is (xD The only president of another country I know is like Winston Churchill)

yeah...churchill was the PM in the UK during the second world war. i'm surprised you don't know who Pierre Elliott Trudeau is/was...