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Founder @TheNorthStar & @RealJusticePAC & @FlipTheSenate & @TheActionPAC. Host of @TheBreakdown Podcast. Voice of Social Justice @TJMShow. Husband. Father of 5.

Brooklyn, NY
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    1. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 15 Mar 2017
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      If you owned human beings 200 years ago, If you slaughtered indigenous people 200 years ago, You should not be honored today or any day.https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/842003478092341248 …

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      Andrew Jackson should never be honored. He was a monster of a man.
      126 replies 2,787 retweets 6,483 likes
      Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 15 Mar 2017
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      My Latest. No President WHO OWNED HUMAN BEINGS should be honored or revered. Not Jackson. Not Washington. None.http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-no-president-owned-human-beings-honored-article-1.2998816 …

      10:42 AM - 15 Mar 2017
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        2. Shaun King‏Verified account @shaunking 15 Mar 2017
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          Where Andrew Jackson offers $10 to anyone who gives 100 lashes to his "runaway slave". Actually $10 for EVERY 100 lashes.pic.twitter.com/ZkZJMPOZ7p

          14 replies 186 retweets 196 likes
        3. 5tephen  🏀‏ @ba5ketball 15 Mar 2017
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          Andrew Jackson was a horrible human Google ' Everglades Florida ' and dig around the old free books from the 1800s

          2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
        4. 5tephen  🏀‏ @ba5ketball 15 Mar 2017
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          sorry Google Books then query

          1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
        5. 5tephen  🏀‏ @ba5ketball 15 Mar 2017
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          https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=eaA6AAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA81 …

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. 5tephen  🏀‏ @ba5ketball 15 Mar 2017
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          i linked to a page thats cray but, the whole book is cray.... there are many other like books

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Warren A Postma‏ @WarrenPostma 15 Mar 2017
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          How about Presidents who slaughtered Native/Indian/Aboriginal/First-nations People and paid Americans scalp fees for committing murder?

          2 replies 4 retweets 25 likes
        3. Anne Leigh  🍑 On vacation‏ @For_Cripes_Sake 15 Mar 2017
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          This. Jackson was hailed as an "Indian fighter" and forced Native American removal. Parallels to 45's Muslim Ban.

          4 replies 5 retweets 12 likes
        4. Sol Smilez‏ @Sol_Smilez 15 Mar 2017
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          Replying to @For_Cripes_Sake @WarrenPostma @shaunking

          temporary travel restriction or even banning an IDEOLOGY contrary to freedom is NOT genocide!!!!

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. BerningNan #Bernie2020 #MedicareForAll RN‏ @NanInKansas 18 Mar 2017
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          Anyone who aligns himself with Jackson does so purposefully and with malice.

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        6. Sol Smilez‏ @Sol_Smilez 18 Mar 2017
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          Jackson did understand the central bank problem. most everything else he was stunk.

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        7. BerningNan #Bernie2020 #MedicareForAll RN‏ @NanInKansas 18 Mar 2017
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          OK. And? He was a racist! Jeezuz

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        8. Sol Smilez‏ @Sol_Smilez 18 Mar 2017
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          Yes he was. I said everything else he did stunk. The ONE GOOD thing improved health of nation

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        2. Jake Hagen‏ @Jake_hagen21 15 Mar 2017
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          internment of Japanese Americans (and Canadians) during the Second World War?

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Jake Hagen‏ @Jake_hagen21 15 Mar 2017
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          allowing war crimes during the first, second, Korean, Vietnam and Iraq war?

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
        4. Jake Hagen‏ @Jake_hagen21 15 Mar 2017
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          I think a * should be by every Prez's name with what happened under their watch. L

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        5. Jake Hagen‏ @Jake_hagen21 15 Mar 2017
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          Lincoln wanted to emancipate slaves, but wasn't completely on board with freedom, that should be noted in HIS books

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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        2. Hitchenista‏ @hitchpster 15 Mar 2017
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          Depends what "honored" means. If that means exerting Ad Hominem arguments over their ideas, I disagree.

          2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Hitchenista‏ @hitchpster 15 Mar 2017
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          that is to say, Ideas are either good or bad on their own, regardless of what the author did in his/her life.

          0 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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        2. Ex-GOP Greg‏ @Flying59Vette 15 Mar 2017
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          Fine. Others will determine what to honor. Many acts today not acceptable today, were common 200 years ago.

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        3. Sol Smilez‏ @Sol_Smilez 15 Mar 2017
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          also, if u really study George Washington, he was not particularly in favor of slavery but wife wow!

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