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Boston Incurs Public Backlash After Unveiling 22-Foot MLK Sculpture
Newsmax ^

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: Thank You Rush

You can come up with great modern art when you are stoned on drugs.


21 posted on 01/15/2023 4:40:26 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: BenLurkin

wtf?


22 posted on 01/15/2023 4:40:32 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Robert A Cook PE
Looks like he’s caressing a penis.

Yep, a rather large one.

23 posted on 01/15/2023 4:40:33 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: BenLurkin

I’m really enjoying this, even the left is grumbling.


24 posted on 01/15/2023 4:41:29 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: BenLurkin

“You’re all idiots.”


25 posted on 01/15/2023 4:41:33 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: BenLurkin

“That MLK statue looks obscene from certain angles, but when you see the whole thing you realize it’s supposed to depict the result of Martin Luther King Jr. and [Coretta] Scott King having gone through the teleporter in The Fly together,” tweeted the Daily Wire’s Frank J. Fleming.


from the article


26 posted on 01/15/2023 4:44:06 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin
So the Left now expects MLK to carry Zelensky, too!


27 posted on 01/15/2023 4:44:21 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: BenLurkin

Hayward at Powerline doesn’t care for it either.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/loose-ends-202.php


28 posted on 01/15/2023 4:44:49 PM PST by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin

From @PAReports: “The ‘Embrace’ sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King embracing his wife Coretta when he won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize is quite dreadful. This had to go thru many drafts, eyes and approvals and everyone involved should be disappointed. #mlksculpture #MLKDay2023”


From the article. Nobody dared to say anything for fear of being called racist.


29 posted on 01/15/2023 4:45:49 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin

Man holding giant turd?


30 posted on 01/15/2023 4:47:14 PM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: BenLurkin

I think it is a fine representation of Massachusetts voters.


31 posted on 01/15/2023 4:47:57 PM PST by glorgau
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To: EEGator

Well looking at that is going to cost me in confession next weekend.


32 posted on 01/15/2023 4:48:00 PM PST by mware
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To: BenLurkin

Whoever thought this up should be in a mental hospital.


33 posted on 01/15/2023 4:48:06 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: BenLurkin
Lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

The Emperor has no clothes .

34 posted on 01/15/2023 4:48:37 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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To: BenLurkin

Johnson:
[notices Dr. Evil’s spaceship on radar] Colonel, you better take a look at this radar.

Colonel:
What is it, son?

Johnson:
I don’t know, sir, but it looks like a giant—

[cut to the sky in two jets]

Jet Pilot:
Dick!

Dick:
Yeah?

Pilot:
Take a look outta starboard.

Dick:
Oh, my God! It looks like a huge—

[cut to a forest with 2 birdwatchers]

Bird-Watching Woman:
Pecker!

Bird-Watching Man:
[raises his binoculars] Oh, where?

Bird-Watching Woman:
Wait! that’s not a woodpecker. It looks like someone’s—

[cut to a boot camp]

Army Sergeant:
PRIVATES! We have reports of an unidentified flying object! It is a long, smooth shaft, complete with—

[cut to a baseball game]

Umpire:
2 balls! [looks up from game] What is that? That looks just like an enormous—

[cut to a Chinese school]

Teacher:
Wang! Pay attention!

Wang:
I was distracted by that enormous flying—

[cut to a concert with Willie Nelson and another guitarist]

Musician:
Willie.

Willie:
Yeah?

Musician:
What’s that?

Willie:
[looks up] Well, it looks like a giant—

[cut back to headquarters]

Colonel:
Johnson!

Johnson:
Yes, sir!

Colonel:
Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this!


35 posted on 01/15/2023 4:48:43 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Fungi

Well here is a statue that can be pulled down and the pulling down would HONOR MLK


36 posted on 01/15/2023 4:48:55 PM PST by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: glorgau

Same for me.


37 posted on 01/15/2023 4:49:10 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: BenLurkin

Find an interesting picture of MLK Jr. and go from there.


38 posted on 01/15/2023 4:49:10 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: BenLurkin

https://nypost.com/2023/01/15/woke-mlk-penis-statue-insults-black-community-coretta-scott-king-kin/

“But then when it came out, a little boy pointed out — ‘That’s a penis!’ and everyone was like, ‘Yo, that’s a big old dong, man,” said the 43-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident.


39 posted on 01/15/2023 4:49:21 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin

https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/hTaWxpJIGgjX27m81xU9OM3bo-I=/1440x0/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bostonglobe/6H6Z24AOP46L2XFLBFSZRHZBC4.JPG

A link to the photo that inspired the sculpture.


40 posted on 01/15/2023 4:52:04 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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