USS Jackson: Choice of name for Navy ship sparks criticism

[signalmankenneth]

Now there taking Jackson off the 20 dollar bill, why would they name a ship after him?!!

In all reality, slavery was the source of Andrew Jackson's wealth. The Hermitage was a 1,000 acre, self-sustaining plantation that relied completely on the labor of enslaved African American men, women, and children.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/politi...l-combat-ship/

 

[Seahawk]

Oh shut up. Unless you want to ban all honors on every white person who owned a slave, then shut up. They lived in a different time. Even your dems used to be in the KKK, but you forgave them.

 

[Legion Troll]

Jackson was a murderer who introduced the spoils system to politics.