Skip to comments.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Yahoo! News ^
| 08/22/11
| Yahoo! News
Posted on 08/22/2011 12:49:12 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
The memorial sits on the National Mall near the Tidal Basin, between memorials honoring Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. It includes a 30-foot-tall sculpture of King and a 450-foot-long granite wall inscribed with 14 quotations from the civil rights leader.
The Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin:
The Location on The Mall:
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society
KEYWORDS: chairmanking; china; madeinchina; maotinlutherking; marxistlutherking; mlk; mlkmemorial; nationalmall; outsourcing; stoneofhope
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-34 next last
Well...at least one would have to go out of their way between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol to get to it.
To: Artemis Webb
2
posted on
08/22/2011 12:52:32 PM PDT
by
molson209
To: molson209
3
posted on
08/22/2011 12:56:03 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Artemis Webb
Have they started work on the Obama memorial yet? I figured since he has the ego of an Egyptian Pharaoh, he would want to oversee the building of his own memorial which will have to be bigger than all those memorials to dead “whitey's”.
4
posted on
08/22/2011 12:59:55 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Artemis Webb
The Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin:Something else we outsourced, huh?
5
posted on
08/22/2011 1:00:18 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Artemis Webb
What? Meer stone? We wants gold! An’ a umbrella over it so’s the pigeons can’t shit on it.
6
posted on
08/22/2011 1:00:29 PM PDT
by
arrdon
(Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
To: Artemis Webb
Given the King family’s history of charging everybody else for anything having to do with Dr. King, did Dr. King’s children charge the government for rights to Dr. King’s likeness and the use of his speeches?
7
posted on
08/22/2011 1:03:01 PM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
To: Artemis Webb
Best comment so far: “So when did MLK get encased in carbonite?”
To: Artemis Webb
Is it just me, or does this statue look more like “Odd Job” from the old James Bond movies than Martin Luther King. (and on a side note, do you think that any of the black community will be upset that MLK is lilly white? after all the artist could have used black marble.)
9
posted on
08/22/2011 1:07:11 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Artemis Webb
That looks like something you’d find on a Soviet memorial to the “Great Patriotic War,” more than a memorial to MLK. That arms-folded pose just looks wrong. Shouldn’t they have put him in a pose from the “I Have a Dream” speech?
}:-)4
10
posted on
08/22/2011 1:12:51 PM PDT
by
Moose4
("Oderint dum metuant" -- "Let them hate, as long as they fear." (Lucius Accius, c. 130 BC))
To: apillar
good point
11
posted on
08/22/2011 1:13:48 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
To: Artemis Webb
Any mention on the granite wall of how the democrats tried to block any and all civil rights legislation at every turn?
12
posted on
08/22/2011 1:14:04 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
"Best comment so far: So when did MLK get encased in carbonite? lol
13
posted on
08/22/2011 1:15:17 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
To: Puppage
There has been some criticism of this. Apparently, it’s the content of the sculptor’s character that was taken into consideration.
Personally, I kind of like the memorial. I like the breaking the wall aspect of it.
MLK, Jr. is believed to have been a Republican. And ... in a time when there are lefty extremists encouraging a violent revolution to get what they want ... I appreciate MLK’s non-violent stance.
14
posted on
08/22/2011 1:18:25 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Somebody got ripped off. I'd be pissed.
15
posted on
08/22/2011 1:30:34 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: All
Looks like he’s coming out of deep freeze, ala Han Solo...
To: Artemis Webb
Looks like DC has its road salt piled up and ready to go for the upcoming winter
19
posted on
08/22/2011 1:41:35 PM PDT
by
wilco200
(11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
To: Pan_Yan
Ripped off? Heh. We saw it. It isn’t that impressive. Nothing can compare to Washington, Lincoln or Jefferson, and I don’t think the artist even tried to reach that height of beauty, because it would be impossible.
I don’t think the King memorial belongs in that location, anyway. I think the Tidal Basin should have been reserved for the presidents.
However, if King hadn’t been placed on the Basin, you just know people would have wanted to put a statue of Obama there one day. If I had to choose between King or Obama there, I would have to go with King.
Last I heard, they didn’t have all the funds for the King site, yet.
I still think the worst is the FDR monstrosity. That should be torn down, and turned into a parking lot. It would be a better use of that particular location, until Reagan’s memorial is put up covering what used to be the FDR memorial.
20
posted on
08/22/2011 1:45:59 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Utopia is being foisted on Americans for their own good.-- J. Robert Smith)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-34 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson