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.
Certainly not a Saint-Gaudens piece.
What an awful statue, and what an awful waste of money. Insanity run rife.
At one time Bronze doors for mausoleums and crypts were fairly common.
A large number of them have now been stolen.
The bottom feeders will steal anything.
Ouch!!! Good job Seneca. Glad I wasn’t the only one that saw it as she described it, and chose not to share my thoughts. 👍 🙂
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Don’t worry. The Mexicans will break out the Sawzalls and chop it up for the recyclers within a few weeks!
ROFL!!!
I didn't want to say it. Glad somebody did.
Solid, really?
Wow, that had to be some impressive smelting.
Cannot tell from the pics but assume it is not actually all one piece.
Waiting for the oxidation to take place, if you think it is ugly now........
And the world has come to a very strange place, when I agree with a (former) professional trouble-maker about something.
If the KKK was commissioned to do a statue to MLK, that’s pretty much what I would expect it to look like.
Well...seems Seneca is a former SEIU Organizer...hhhmmmm...
From that angle, it looks like someone trying to shove his head up his own butt.
It is beyond tacky and tasteless which is exactly what I’d expect from anyone even remotely connected to the North American disaffected negro shakedown network.
It's the common folk who do that. The real bottom feeders go around in Mercedes and suits in Washington DC and do undescrible things to siphon off taxpayer money and property for their own gain.
I think it’s meant to be their arms around one another’s shoulders; I guess the artist didn’t know how to do heads...
If the powers in Boston are stupid enough to spend that much money on that monstrosity, I just hope they apologize to Coretta.
She’s not around anymore - but there are plenty to whom they should apologize.
Maybe the offspring but Coretta has cashed her chips in.
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