Reply #7: You know, Andrew Jackson brought "change"---he sent my ancestors on the Trail of Tears [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

so that a bunch of Whites could prospect for gold in their land in Northern Georgia.

People forget stuff like that and treat Andrew Jackson as some kind of hero and have to be reminded that he purged the South of its rightful Native American inhabitants in ruthless ways that left many dead. They remember the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans.

The pretext for sending the Cherokee away from their land---so that Whites could mine it for gold--would later be used to steal the Black Hills of Dakota from its Native American inhabitants. So, Jackson is the godfather of ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the United States.

I am always surprised at how few people know this. I foresee that history is going to cleanse Reagan's legacy the same way that it has cleansed Jackson's.