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.
OMG!!
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!
I can’t believe it’s a solid 65,000 pounds.
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.
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.
And now this. Martin Bigus Dickus.
It IS hideous, pornographic, and insulting all at the same time.
I recommend a stool softener.
It’s solid brass. It’s not hollow.
A local military memorial had the bronze plaques of the emblems of some of the armed services stolen...........
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:
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.
Looks like the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile.
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.
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.
38 tons of solid brass? Incredible!
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.
The left also wants to keep them stirred up and agitated.................
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