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.
It looks someone trying to stick their head up their own a**. What a disgrace.
Metal scavengers: have at it!
Apparently somebody did!........................
We should put one of these in every major city, this is great stuff, and just too much fun.
It will be great to learn what name the locals come to know this piece by, it sure won’t be the original name.
$10 million.
Nice. /s
Nice work if you can get it!....................
The first, second and third drafts must have been circulated and looked at by various people. That’s the time to speak up and say ‘This looks like S**T!” Was everyone so worried about being called ‘racist’ for saying it was a bad idea that should have been nipped in it’s bulging bronze buds?
Having worked as an artist years ago, I’ve learned that some people honestly don’t know bad art when they see it or when it is suggested to them by someone they trust.
They just presume it’s an abstraction and they personally
don’t get it. That it must be a shortcoming on their part.
Looks like somebody is ‘gettin’ work done’.
You have made the most sense out of this whole thing.
it looks like someone trying to shove his head up his own butt.
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That’s what I thought when I saw the “thing”. It’s not artwork.
My first thought, as well. Reminds me of that old saying, "A giraffe is a racehorse designed by a committee."
This unfinished monstrosity?
It looks like something out of Stalinist Russia.
Several comments by people view the “statue” stated that they were brought to tears!! Seeing a photo of the “statue”, I can understand why ....10 million reasons why.
See also posts #39 and #41 ...
We’re in good company!
No kidding, this is a mess no matter how you look at it.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Yes, Hank Willis Thomas.
The same artist who has graced us with a 25 foot tall afro comb that seems to have sprouted up in several cities after the Summer of Mostly Peaceful Protests.
I was brought to tears of laughter when I read the reactions and memes on Twitter, many of which are unsuitable to post here.
I don’t know anyone who uses those these days...
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