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Boston Incurs Public Backlash After Unveiling 22-Foot MLK Sculpture
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Posted on 01/15/2023 4:27:54 PM PST by BenLurkin

The city of Boston has taken online and social media heat this weekend after unveiling a 22-foot bronze sculpture that celebrates the relationship between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

For those who have seen the famous[?] photo of the Kings embracing, it's easier to visualize what Thomas was trying to accomplish.

For others, the gigantic bronze sculpture located in Boston Common, the nation's oldest public park, represents different things, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.

Seneca Scott, Coretta Scott King's cousin, slammed the statue's aesthetics in an essay for the online journal Compact.

"For my family, it's rather insulting," wrote Scott, while adding the "sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine's callousness and vanity."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: boston; mlk; sculpture
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To: gundog

Pigeons, hell… Gonna need more toilet paper… That’s one of those “just keep on wiping until the roll is empty” turds…


101 posted on 01/15/2023 5:36:59 PM PST by NFHale (But IThe Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: EEGator

Omg South Park… lol!!


102 posted on 01/15/2023 5:37:58 PM PST by NFHale (But IThe Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: EEGator

A statue perfectly representing “WOKE”!


103 posted on 01/15/2023 5:38:55 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: BenLurkin

gross


104 posted on 01/15/2023 5:40:28 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: BenLurkin
To everyone who thinks this looks like a giant turd or a giant dong, you've got it all wrong.

You've got to walk around and look at it from a different angle.

Clearly, it's a bald dude going down on a woman.


105 posted on 01/15/2023 5:47:28 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Magnum44

On GP the most common opinion was that it looked like someone holding a giant turd.


106 posted on 01/15/2023 5:47:35 PM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s like an art project at a psychiatric hospital.


107 posted on 01/15/2023 5:48:07 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I saw it several times before the explanation of what it was. It just looked like a turd, but now I see it’s a penis shaped turd. So they’re back to penis worship, are they? Evolution- I kept telling my dad that Darwin was “full of it.” Every mutation I saw in NICU was bad, and usually fatal. Devolution I can understand. Someone is really trying to provoke a race war. I gave up stupid games as a kid.


108 posted on 01/15/2023 5:49:57 PM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: Drew68

“Hold High The Poop of Posterity”!!!


109 posted on 01/15/2023 5:50:20 PM PST by NFHale (But IThe Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: BenLurkin

They should send that sculpture to Boise! It’s a lovely Idaho Spud being caressed!

Or they should send it to Chairman Xi. It looks like a gorgeous sea slug and the Chinese love to eat sea slug.

Or they could send it to porn star Ron Jeremy (who has dementia) to stimulate fond memories of his glory days.


110 posted on 01/15/2023 5:52:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: Drew68

Working on the edge of the Cleveland ghetto...you just have no idea. Gangrenous vagina diagnosis was a new one for us. Hygiene people!! Where’s a Roman vomitorium when you need one?


111 posted on 01/15/2023 5:54:54 PM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: BenLurkin; Jim W N; unread; Magnum44; silverleaf; fretzer; CaptainPhilFan; NFHale; Gene Eric; ...
The original civic turd sculpture is San Jose’s Quetzalcoatl. It isn't just a single turd, either, but a giant PILE!


112 posted on 01/15/2023 6:00:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: Da Coyote
Remember way back in the days of the dinosaurs when we thought that Massachusetts, and Boston in particular

I remember the days when the phrase "banned in Boston" referred to racy items, the clear implication being that Boston was the standard for high standards.

Satan steals, then kills, then destroys. If you want high standards, you have to move to Singapore, and the the price you pay for such a society is to be willing to live in what is essentially a Confucian dictatorship.

113 posted on 01/15/2023 6:01:11 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin

From the list of 45 planks of communism. Derived from the naked communist:

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”


114 posted on 01/15/2023 6:02:39 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: BenLurkin

Move it next to the Lenin statue in Fremont, WA; the two “sculptures” deserve each other.


115 posted on 01/15/2023 6:03:44 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin

O!M!G!


116 posted on 01/15/2023 6:15:49 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: BenLurkin

Very phallic. Disgusting. And supposed to be the likeness of a black man. Blacks should be insulted.


117 posted on 01/15/2023 6:20:17 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: BenLurkin

Mike Royko would have a heyday with this one.


118 posted on 01/15/2023 6:20:23 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought it was two water buffalo copulating the first time I saw a picture of it.


119 posted on 01/15/2023 6:22:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
When I first saw it THAT IS EXACTLY what I thought, he looks like he is handling a penis what in the hell is this???

Me too.....just as bad seeing the entire "sculpture."

120 posted on 01/15/2023 6:23:54 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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