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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 178252, member: 66&quot;]Actually Gasparro made his original SBA design using a younger more attractive portrait of Anthony (From when she was in her twenties)&nbsp; Anthony&#039;s family complained that Gasparro had &quot;prettied&quot; her up too much and insisted that he use portraits from much later in her life when she was an activist (and much less attractive), because it was the appearance that most people remembered her by.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It really isn&#039;t fair to judge or condemn someone for there actions based on today&#039;s sensibilities.&nbsp; Jackson&#039;s actions at the time were considered by many to be right and proper&nbsp; Today we see it as a violation of human rights and dignity.&nbsp; Back then it was seen as just running off undesirably vermin.&nbsp; Much like we would do today with a pack of feral dogs running around your neighborhood.&nbsp; If we judge by today&#039;s standards we need to condemn a great many of our founding fathers and early presidents as slave owners.&nbsp; (Some apologists like to point out that Washington freed his slaves.&nbsp; Yes, in his will after he had died and no longer needed them.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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