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A Masturbatory ‘Homage’ to My Family- Seneca Scott
COMPACT Magazine ^ | January 14, 2023 | Seneca Scott

Posted on 01/16/2023 11:02:30 AM PST by Red Badger

By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple. Created by the organization Embrace Boston, the sculpture has inspired mad jokes on Twitter, and rightly so. But for my family, it’s rather insulting. You see, Coretta was my first cousin, my grandfather’s niece, and the daughter of my great uncle Obediah Scott.

Martin married up. Coretta came from a distinguished family, with a significant legacy in her own right. There is a reason she kept the Scott name. We were a black family that owned land, lots of it. Martin knew what he was doing when he pursued her, signaling intentions to marry from the outset. After his assassination, Coretta created a legacy of her own, fighting for health-care workers and against Apartheid in South Africa.

“The Boston debacle … exposes the insidiousness of astroturfed woke movements.” Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members—one of the all-time greatest American families. Still, the Boston debacle could be a blessing in disguise, by exposing the insidiousness of astroturfed woke movements that have come to dominate black America: How could anyone fail to see that this was a major dick move (pun intended) that brings very few, if any, tangible benefits to struggling black families?

“Consider this our Declaration of Interdependence,” declares the Embrace Boston website. What does that even mean? Black families in America who need help don’t care for more woke slogans. They need jobs that pay the bills and keep up with food and energy costs that are rising faster than ever before for most of us. Building expensive, stupid new statues with no faces on them—and tearing down others for no good reason—are part of the same performative altruism and purity pageants that are mainstays of the woke left.

So now Boston has a big bronze penis statue that’s supposed to represent black love at its purest and most devotional. This is no accident. The woke algorithm is racist and classist. Therefore, its programming will always produce things that harm black and poor people. This sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity. Hopefully, it will show more black people that these progressives just aren’t in this for our benefit.

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Seneca Scott, a former organizer with SEIU Local 2021, is the founder and director of Neighbors Together Oakland.


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1 posted on 01/16/2023 11:02:30 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

OMG!!


2 posted on 01/16/2023 11:07:19 AM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: Red Badger

When pulling up imagery of the new sculpture, a photo of Corretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson(?!) also comes up that appears to be a match for the embracing arms. Strange!


3 posted on 01/16/2023 11:07:35 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Red Badger

I can’t believe it’s a solid 65,000 pounds.


4 posted on 01/16/2023 11:09:37 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: BradyLS

It’s dreadful.

I know a lot of people didn’t like the statue at the King Memorial in DC, but it’s beautiful and respectful - especially compared with this.


5 posted on 01/16/2023 11:10:57 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

I am sure the casting has to be hollow.
So it will be much easier to shatter and steal for scrap, the “Needy” will get their share.


6 posted on 01/16/2023 11:11:44 AM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Red Badger
There seems to be a plot against memorializing Martin King. In Washington DC the put up a big statue of him. It was made in CHINA! Even his face looks Chinese. Couldn't they find an American black sculptor to do it? Did they even try?

And now this. Martin Bigus Dickus.

7 posted on 01/16/2023 11:12:12 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Red Badger

It IS hideous, pornographic, and insulting all at the same time.


8 posted on 01/16/2023 11:14:20 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: gundog
"I can’t believe it’s a solid 65,000 pounds."

I recommend a stool softener.

9 posted on 01/16/2023 11:15:47 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Ex gun maker.

It’s solid brass. It’s not hollow.


10 posted on 01/16/2023 11:17:15 AM PST by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Ex gun maker.

A local military memorial had the bronze plaques of the emblems of some of the armed services stolen...........


11 posted on 01/16/2023 11:18:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

This one was done by a Black American artist.

This picture of it shows a little better what was intended, but it’s still an awful statue:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/martin-luther-king-jr-honored-with-the-embrace-statue-how-much-did-it-cost/ar-AA16ppcU


12 posted on 01/16/2023 11:18:22 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger
It is an absolutely disgusting "statue" of MLK.

Black people need to understand the contempt that the hard Left holds them in. The Left wants to keep black people down and dependent on the "liberal white people" to give them a hand up.

They want the blacks to stay on the plantation and keep voting for them. So they will always seek to keep them dependent on them for their welfare.

13 posted on 01/16/2023 11:18:56 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,818,034 Truth | 87,745,895 Twitter)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.


14 posted on 01/16/2023 11:19:52 AM PST by bray (My book, The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I don’t know who the complainers are. When you work hard to advertise your brand and people are finally into buying it, what’s to get insulted about? Because you know what, I see a lot of very attractive white females walking around with buff black males. Must be a reason.


15 posted on 01/16/2023 11:19:54 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: Jamestown1630

Thanks for the aerial view. I’m glad it makes sense from some direction. Now they just need to ban foot and vehicular traffic in the area of the park.


16 posted on 01/16/2023 11:23:11 AM PST by Hieronymus
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To: P-Marlowe

38 tons of solid brass? Incredible!


17 posted on 01/16/2023 11:24:07 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Red Badger

She knocked it out of the park with this statement. I love that she called out the woke left. I love that she called them racist, which is true. She is speaking truth to power here. Bravo!

I also like her term “woke algorithm” and how this was an expression of the programming. She is so right. They are ideological to the core, and now that MLK’s ideas pose a threat to them, this is what you get. They simply can’t help themselves.


18 posted on 01/16/2023 11:32:01 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: SamAdams76

The left also wants to keep them stirred up and agitated.................


19 posted on 01/16/2023 11:32:47 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
This sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity. Hopefully, it will show more black people that these progressives just aren’t in this for our benefit.

More people waking up to what WOKE white liberal 'elites' are all about... themselves - and only themselves.

20 posted on 01/16/2023 11:34:45 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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