Andrew Jackson wasn’t a founding father. He was 9 when then Declaration was signed. He was barely commissioned when America fought the Barbary pirates. This knowledge does not lessen or shake my belief in the Founding Fathers.

Knowing how hard some folks are determined to make any old white guy a villain is what shakes me. Like, people forgot how progressive Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams were. Most of the founders and the Sons of Liberty were anti-monarchists and all of them didn’t like the imperialist system that England put in place -which is why the genocide didn’t start until after the founders had died and the last one that could be considered a founder, James Monroe, didn’t support genocide either. In fact, he was so against the notion of colonialism that he founded the Monroe Doctrine, basically a policy that openly told Europe that if they tried to plant a flag in the Americas that the US would do everything in their power to fuck em up.

Look to the racists (the Federalists and later Whigs) in the south who took over government, such as Andrew Jackson, to commit genocide. Folks who know history are still mad at the authoritarian right now matter what time period. Know your history, know your politics, don’t be ignorant.