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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: BenLurkin

Salvador Dali on drugs???


41 posted on 01/15/2023 4:52:15 PM PST by mware
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To: Chickensoup

Good idea—where is black lives matter when you need them?


42 posted on 01/15/2023 4:55:03 PM PST by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin

They ain’t got no heads.


43 posted on 01/15/2023 4:55:34 PM PST by PAR35
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To: BenLurkin

strange, i don’t recognize him...


44 posted on 01/15/2023 4:56:14 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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A statue to a known communist.


45 posted on 01/15/2023 4:56:21 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I was thinking a turd.

Utterly disgusting.


46 posted on 01/15/2023 4:56:28 PM PST by fretzer
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To: BenLurkin

$10MM...


47 posted on 01/15/2023 4:57:09 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t doubt that somewhere there are some women who intimately knew Martin Luther King, and they are looking at that statue and going “Yep, Martin’s wasn’t quite that size but, Yep.”


48 posted on 01/15/2023 4:58:03 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: fretzer

49 posted on 01/15/2023 4:58:20 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

Peyronie’s? Did the sculptor copy it from a medical journal photo?


50 posted on 01/15/2023 4:59:21 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Responsibility2nd

I so agree with you. That is one view of someone’s head up their butt. Awful.


51 posted on 01/15/2023 5:00:22 PM PST by healy61
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To: EEGator

Mr. Hankey.


52 posted on 01/15/2023 5:00:41 PM PST by fretzer
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To: BenLurkin
OK, they had the unveiling...

Time for the veiling.

53 posted on 01/15/2023 5:00:55 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

“ Looks like he’s caressing a penis.”

Thanks for saying it first so I don’t have to


54 posted on 01/15/2023 5:01:04 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: EEGator

Waiting to hear from Lili Von Shtüpp


55 posted on 01/15/2023 5:01:34 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: fretzer

Hi dee ho!


56 posted on 01/15/2023 5:01:39 PM PST by EEGator
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To: RckyRaCoCo

“It’s twue...”


57 posted on 01/15/2023 5:02:11 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/us/mlk-memorial-inscription/index.html


There have been other controversies regarding mlk statutes


58 posted on 01/15/2023 5:02:34 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

This thing is hideous. Add to that the fact that various body parts resemblance other body parts - such as arms and legs. What you have here is a giant pornographic depiction of 2 sexual, obviously, positions, and 2 hands cradling a turd or a massive member.

It’s just awesome. Parents should not let their kids see it.


59 posted on 01/15/2023 5:03:29 PM PST by CaptainPhilFan ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Omg… it’s ridiculous…

A giant turd…


60 posted on 01/15/2023 5:04:25 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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