Pulpit Editorial - $20 Bills by Gary Kowalski

I was at this service. Gary was powerful as usual.

This month the U.S. Treasury will begin circulating brand new twenty dollar bills. The currency will be more colorful and harder to counterfeit, but will still carry the image of America’s premier war criminal, President Andrew Jackson.

Most modern courts would put him in the same category as Pol Pot or Slobodan Melosivic–guilty of crimes against humanity.

...Andrew Jackson’s picture should be in a National Hall of Shame, not on the twenty-dollar bill. And I like to imagine acts of grassroots resistance to his presence on our currency. What if people wrote the word "genocide" across his face on every bill that passed through their hands? Or what if they simply refused to accept twenties, and demanded one dollar coins--Sacajaweas or Susan B. Anthonys--or asked for five dollar notes, featuring good old Abraham Lincoln, instead? None of these things are likely to happen soon. We’re likely to be looking at that bouffant of white hair, that prim little smirk, that "Southern Gentleman" countenance, for quite some time. His mug will remain a sorry reminder of how often our nation has worshiped at the shrine of making money, whatever the cost in justice or blood.

The parts between the ... are good too, and provide the justification. Not your typical comments from the minister.