You people are a bit full of yourselves, just because someone did something that was common place for his time that is looked down upon today you feel all their exploits the good and bad should give way to that. Jackson had slaves, so did most of the influential people of the time, does that make their contributions less significant? It shouldn't. Yes we should shed light on it but most of you are acting like the man should be erased from history except the fact he had slaves. It's not a perfect analogy but saying in retrospect that people well off enough to afford slaves in the time of slavery are evil for following social norms because it's a shitty thing to do is similar to if we got rid of cars because of their effect on the environment in the future those future people saying all of us past drivers were horrible people for ruining the future atmosphere. And I'm sure a few of you will read this and misinterpret it as advocating racism, go ahead there's nothing I can do to stop you from poorly comprehending my point, but the real point is we should stop acting like someone must be forgotten or ignored moving forward for partaking in ideas and practices common in their time, we can all say here and now in our positions of limited power(in comparison to the people being complained about) we wouldn't have done this or that and they shouldn't either but it's easy to look around and see just how much mob mentality and conformism are still in effect in our daily lives.
On the money, I'm for anyone that helped better our nation be represented on currency but why does inclusion always come at the cost of someone or thing else? Why couldn't they have just made new bills specifically for them, wouldn't that have been more of a recognition of honor than giving them someone else's? What sounds better; we like what you did for us here's a new house or we like what you did for us, Jim get out this is Helen's house now? Reinstate the 2, add new denominations; a $30 or a $40 or a $60 etc. You could probably end up reducing the total amount of bills printed by varying the denominations better.
