Andrew Jackson isn’t the only one of the seven White men on US paper currency who had a troubling history with slavery. At least five of the seven owned enslaved people at one time, although some gave them up later in life and became abolitionists. - ThreadSky

cnn.com • 11 days ago

Andrew Jackson isn’t the only one of the seven White men on US paper currency who had a troubling history with slavery.

At least five of the seven owned enslaved people at one time, although some gave them up later in life and became abolitionists.

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jesustheoneandonly.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is how you do news, CNN:

https://apnews.com/article/us-immigration-deportations-third-countries-89eb617cb350bfeb2114f7b4a4e07aef

clark68.bsky.social•11 days ago

History has happened, it’s how you deal with it that matters. What are going to do, erase everything that has been built by enslaved people? What iconic buildings will the USA lose? Learn from the past by not repeating it.

cathleengrady.bsky.social•11 days ago

Any man who is white has a troubled history. Kinda their thing.

cathleengrady.bsky.social•11 days ago

UNLESS GAY! THEN, FABULOUS.

grayboots62.bsky.social•11 days ago

If you go back more than 200 years, just about every leader of every country had slaves or indentured servants of one kind or another.

paulmurray.bsky.social•11 days ago

It won't be long until you will have your broadcasting license revoked for stating simple facts like these.

andrewlindsey.bsky.social•11 days ago

Let's not forget about genocide and land-theft when it comes to Natives.

meteorblades.bsky.social•11 days ago

5 of these men on our currency also backed policies or themselves directly engaged in actions that killed, displaced, or imprisoned the Native population.

rakista.bsky.social•11 days ago

Benjamin Franklin ran classified ads for child slaves.

A good man he was not.

alibc992.bsky.social•11 days ago

Time to erase the white racist ideology. No more. It has to end and we are sick of these ppl.

belljan670.bsky.social•11 days ago

No one ever teach you about all the whites who were stolen from Europe and sold into slavery by blacks and North Africans during the Barbary Slave Trade? In fact, they're still enslaving people there. Only western countries made slavery illegal. https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/white-slaves-barbary-002171.

sjbof.uk•11 days ago

Canada threatened with annexation. Senator focusses on banknote pictures.

jacksontattooco.bsky.social•11 days ago

And? Idk where you're going with this but if you think replacing these guys with billionaires faces is any different, you're wrong.

copter47.bsky.social•11 days ago

CNN just can’t go 24 hours without inserting racism into the conversation.

lavague.bsky.social•11 days ago

Here’s what I do about that…

hikeitup.bsky.social•11 days ago

And now let's change money. Because...litmus test! And faux-grievance. We need to lose more elections.

maindawg.bsky.social•11 days ago

I would point out, that George Washington actively claimed land that belonged to native Americans and then conspired to remove them thereby enriching himself and others by stealing, by defrauding and murdering innocent people.
I fail to see how that was ok 250 years ago.

danielaegan.bsky.social•11 days ago

All presidents are bastards.

patfromhecla.bsky.social•10 days ago

You know who will be replacing Jefferson on the bill 🤡

michaelt2300.bsky.social•11 days ago

wasn't harriet tubman supposed to replace him on the 20 a long time ago?

k3mistryp.bsky.social•11 days ago

Was thinking the same thing… But it seems she was going to share the $20 bill with Jackson. Jackson was supposed to be on the back of the bill 💵 while Tubman would be on the front.

ilsk8.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah I know. I heard the Run the Jewels song. Thanks CNN

jimmer1429.bsky.social•11 days ago

Nobody gives a shit.

ziggyman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Andrew Jackson? He's Trump's favourite President!

9rgeoc.bsky.social•11 days ago

That's why they're on the money, a nation all about the money and the slave master mentality economy it represent, isn't it?

wyrdandnerdy.bsky.social•11 days ago

"Owned enslaved people": i.e. they were slave owners.

Many presidents before were slave owners.

So it should not be surprising that our current president wants to bring back racism.

How bad will you let Trump get, @cnn.com, before you call him out on his fascism?

charlene411.bsky.social•11 days ago

gondron.bsky.social•11 days ago

Isn’t this the personal evolution we want people to go through ? If you think one way in your lifetime, you become educated through life’s experiences + wisdom + education … you then come to a different conclusion of your youth. Later in life you can strive to improve.

mayasteward.bsky.social•11 days ago

If one of them you're talking about is Grant. He was given William Jones by his father-in-law. He released Mr. Jones whom he could have sold for $1,000 soon after in 1859. 5 years later he released 4 million more when he won the Civil War.

amazingprizzini.bsky.social•11 days ago

yeah, I feel like it's realyl not fair to lump Grant- the main who broke both the confederacy and the first version of the KKK- with Jefferson, who enslaved his own children.

notetherapy.bsky.social•11 days ago

Still relevant today.

keysrm5398.bsky.social•11 days ago

Andrew Jackson made Trump look like a fuzzy peach. You're talking about a man who's genocidal policies were so brutally effective that most Americans don't even remember or know they happened. HITLER LITERALLY TOOK NOTES TO DESIGN THE HOLOCAUST, and he was praying to reach the numbers Jackson hit.

rondorland.bsky.social•11 days ago

The Union won the Civil War, and the Confederacy took over the peace.

btrpb.bsky.social•11 days ago

Please don't change them out now we could end up with Margie Greene on the hundred...

asmfoto70.bsky.social•10 days ago

Ok. And ...? Which of us is perfect? Realistically we were an apartheid state for the majority of our history. If these men were born in our times they wouldn't be proponents of slavery but they'd have other transgressions. I thought binary thinking in itself was bad?

owens-kd1.bsky.social•11 days ago

Ah but guess who thinks Andrew Jackson was a helluva guy.

raulamderlaine.bsky.social•11 days ago

WOW! IT'S ALMOST AS IF THEY WERE MEN OF THEIR TIMES WHO DID NOT LIVE BY MORAL STANDARDS ADOPTED 200 YEARS LATER

NEXT THING WE KNOW IS THAT THESE BASTARDS ALSO DIDN'T SUPPORT TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE IN SPORTS !!!!!1

tjghoul.bsky.social•11 days ago

It was immoral in their time as well. The immorality of slavery was recognized by many of their contemporaries, yet they chose to ignore morality for their own benefit at the expense of others’ freedom.

calamityjane53.bsky.social•11 days ago

.. and leave the all caps for Truth Social, while you’re at it.

calamityjane53.bsky.social•11 days ago

Keep your hair on.

gentleplodding.bsky.social•11 days ago

.... So were the Nazis in 30's Germany....

amazingprizzini.bsky.social•11 days ago

Most of them knew slavery was wrong. Most of them struggled with it, but chose to take the money instead.

Arguing that slavery was morally wrong was not a radical position in 1800, it was jsut radical to suggest anything should be done about it.

melaniewildman.bsky.social•11 days ago

Huh? The rest of the world had banned slavery by then. The moral standard of the time WAS abolitionists.

Good grief.

r3dfiv3.bsky.social•11 days ago

Now that you've taken the time to go after dead presidents could you please get on Trump with some seriousness. Call for impeachment in your opinions, don't let up on the dumb shit the rest of them do. REPORT IT LOUD. REPORT IT CLEAR.
We will have your back. 8647

modeka.bsky.social•11 days ago

THE NAZI IS GOING NUTS !

clstempson63.bsky.social•10 days ago

Time for new art on our currency, but get rid of Dump and the Muscovites first.

listingportside.bsky.social•11 days ago

Moral turpitude aside, the dude had a fine head of hair.

eziohildreti.bsky.social•11 days ago

And 200 years from now future generations will call us monsters for one reason or another. Judge people in history by thr times they lived in, not the times you lived in. Otherwise almost everyone born before 1800 is a monster

zilla777.bsky.social•10 days ago

i'm fairly certain the reason people hate jackson is that he committed genocide

yogadaddy2000.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thank you so much CNN. These kinds of " make racism great again" articles help the Democratic party so much, in the aftermath of the presidential defeat. Maintaining racism as the hood ornament of the CNN brand is so smart, too.

airjelly.bsky.social•11 days ago

I respectfully offer why waste your time on the past we have one in the office right now

jaj3.bsky.social•11 days ago

Don’t hold your breath. The incompetent democrats failed to put Harriett Truman on the currency in four years. They can change the Treasury Secretary’s signature in minutes, yet are incompetent to change a photo likeness?!

barrybarrybarry.bsky.social•11 days ago

On another note the administration is now going after Museums.This administration proves everyday that the presidency has way too much power. & don’t get me started with Presidential pardons. Pay the full time for your crime. We don’t elect Kings and I think the founders copied an English tradition.

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