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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: Robert A Cook PE
Is he a secret Coprophile? Or gay and into Phallic worship? Maybe he just sculpted a big middle finger at American, Amercian Values, and normalcy.

An angry Black man passing as an Artist sculpts an ambiguous object. (Nothing new here!) Whatever else, he defrauded his patrons.

61 posted on 01/15/2023 5:04:34 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: CaptainPhilFan

I think it represents what the left has done to art perfectly!


62 posted on 01/15/2023 5:04:35 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: EEGator

Someone should modify the plaque, assuming there is one, and rename it.


63 posted on 01/15/2023 5:04:56 PM PST by fretzer
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To: NWFree

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???


64 posted on 01/15/2023 5:04:56 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: BenLurkin

Boston has been a joke for many decades...


65 posted on 01/15/2023 5:05:05 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: BenLurkin

Pathetic. Absolutly Pathatic.


66 posted on 01/15/2023 5:05:25 PM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: BenLurkin
its us folks...its us.....we just don't "get it" like the chic crowd does....

another Jackson pollack.....another ruse for we rabble to fume over......

67 posted on 01/15/2023 5:06:20 PM PST by cherry
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To: PeterPrinciple

That statue of king is horrible also, a high school sculptor could of done a better job than that.


68 posted on 01/15/2023 5:07:27 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Da Coyote

It is seriously THE stupidest looking “sculpture” I’ve ever seen…

Perfectly in keeping with the 1963 communist goals of making art ugly…

I would tell the sculptor “congratulations… You gave birth to a turd”


69 posted on 01/15/2023 5:07:52 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: imabadboy99

THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963

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.”

https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html


70 posted on 01/15/2023 5:09:18 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: PeterPrinciple; All

A smaller copy must be prepared for West Point. It can be installed where the R E Lee portrait once hung.


71 posted on 01/15/2023 5:09:59 PM PST by robowombat ( )
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To: fretzer

How about modifying the statue by hooking up a hose to run water through the end into a little pond beneath it...kinda like the little boy whizzing into the fountain.


72 posted on 01/15/2023 5:10:41 PM PST by ryderann
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To: BenLurkin

We tore down Robt. E. Lee for this?


73 posted on 01/15/2023 5:10:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: fretzer

It would be more fitting...


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

It looks like a PENIS! UGH! WHO okayed this monstrosity? Bet it was a HOMOSEXUAL!


75 posted on 01/15/2023 5:13:36 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

His father is a member of the Black Panther Party!


76 posted on 01/15/2023 5:17:09 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EEGator

I literally just snorted my bourbon all over myself…


77 posted on 01/15/2023 5:18:08 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: Chickensoup

How much did they PAY for this piece of CRAP?


78 posted on 01/15/2023 5:19:09 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: newfreep

See post number 69… You got it spot on brother


79 posted on 01/15/2023 5:19:43 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: Fungi

The “artist” is black, so everything is OK.


80 posted on 01/15/2023 5:20:13 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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