Andrew Jackson can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Andrew Jackson can take a flying fuck at the Mooooooooooooon! Jackson Elementary School is Salt Lake City's oldest elementary school; it was founded in 1883, although the photos we've seen online look considerably newer. Since roughly 85 percent of the K-6 school's population are students of color, the school board has been considering a name change for some time, from "Andrew Jackson Elementary" to something else, because there's the whole slavery thing and the genocidal Trail of Tears against the Cherokee tribe. The idea of honoring that man just rubbed a lot of students and their parents the wrong way, as the
Grew up in the Jackson Elementary neighborhood although attended a different elementary school. Lots of my friends went to Jackson. Great move and honors the students and their diversity!!
Feeling the need to impress upon you all what happened upon the Trail of Tears; The large part of the Cherokee nation saw the writing on the wall and said yes, let's go euro! not good enough, said Jackson. Die while we take your land away because you aren't white enough.
I once spoke to a white southerner who was haunted by the fact that they almost certainly had black/bi-racial relatives nearby who were the product of plantation rape and had suffered while her branch of the family had prospered. She was part of the rich white family that still owned the town while she had blood relatives living on the wrong side of the track that most of her family wouldn't admit might exist never mind employ.
Think of all those many poor Cherokee-owned slaves who had to tag along.The dropped hollyhock seeds along their path to find their way back home from Oklahoma someday.(Source: Sarah Vowell and others)
I need this as a picture of some sort I will hang it lovingly in my home to remind me that this is true and that I am an optimist. Mostly. Or I used to be. Mostly.
What I really don't understand is how Jackson can be held personally responsible for the "Trail of Tears" when it happened a year AFTER Jackson left office - and the Indian Removal Act was a bill passed by Congress, and not an executive order.
& not just the Cherokee. Every Tribe "removed" (force marched) from the East/South by the US Army under "president" Jackson has their own Trail of Tears. Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and more. Ugly reminder of America's long standing racism.
No need to apologize a trillion times
Yup. So was John Wayne Gacy.
Grew up in the Jackson Elementary neighborhood although attended a different elementary school. Lots of my friends went to Jackson. Great move and honors the students and their diversity!!
Feeling the need to impress upon you all what happened upon the Trail of Tears; The large part of the Cherokee nation saw the writing on the wall and said yes, let's go euro! not good enough, said Jackson. Die while we take your land away because you aren't white enough.
I once spoke to a white southerner who was haunted by the fact that they almost certainly had black/bi-racial relatives nearby who were the product of plantation rape and had suffered while her branch of the family had prospered. She was part of the rich white family that still owned the town while she had blood relatives living on the wrong side of the track that most of her family wouldn't admit might exist never mind employ.
"The Indian Removal Act" stands next to the "Chinese Exclusion Act", the "Fugitive Slave Act" and other examples of American Despicable-ism.
Hey, I'm right there with ya....I'm the one that thunk it!
But we're not old, we're "seasoned".
Pockets of decency--and smart kids. Rare, but still out there.
Oh, I'm all for remembering him. The literature can join the voluminous volumes on Hitler on the shelf.
Or, go full hagiograpphic sci fi jailhouse fantasy with Dalton Trumbo's "The Remarkable Andrew"
Think of all those many poor Cherokee-owned slaves who had to tag along.The dropped hollyhock seeds along their path to find their way back home from Oklahoma someday.(Source: Sarah Vowell and others)
We all doing nice space happytimes for Ash WednesdayCome on down
I need this as a picture of some sort I will hang it lovingly in my home to remind me that this is true and that I am an optimist. Mostly. Or I used to be. Mostly.
Our sweet, innocent days before everyone ruined the internet!
What I really don't understand is how Jackson can be held personally responsible for the "Trail of Tears" when it happened a year AFTER Jackson left office - and the Indian Removal Act was a bill passed by Congress, and not an executive order.
& not just the Cherokee. Every Tribe "removed" (force marched) from the East/South by the US Army under "president" Jackson has their own Trail of Tears. Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and more. Ugly reminder of America's long standing racism.