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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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1 posted on 01/15/2023 4:27:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Liz

Looks like he’s caressing a penis.


2 posted on 01/15/2023 4:30:23 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like they’re holding a giant turd - appropriate IMO for the pro-unconstitutional government that MLK represents.


3 posted on 01/15/2023 4:30:29 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: BenLurkin

Holy carp!

That’s a damn big phallus right there.

Yes it is.


4 posted on 01/15/2023 4:30:58 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: BenLurkin

I honestly don’t know what I am looking at.


5 posted on 01/15/2023 4:31:38 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

It makes me think of things I shouldn’t be thinking about.
A $10 Million Dollar Bronze BLOB!

My bet is that there will be calls for a Replacement Sculpture before this year is out. Some Artists would gladly donate except for material costs. People want to see a face with such a tribute.
Not rocket science.


6 posted on 01/15/2023 4:32:21 PM PST by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha he-he-he....ok :)


7 posted on 01/15/2023 4:32:24 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: BenLurkin
When JFK and Robert Kennedy ordered the CIA to tap MLK's phone, they were shocked at his dozens of affairs. And he liked all types of women.

8 posted on 01/15/2023 4:33:11 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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9 posted on 01/15/2023 4:33:22 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: EEGator

Lets be honest, it Looks like somebody holding a big brown turd...


10 posted on 01/15/2023 4:34:41 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Magnum44

“Johnson!”


11 posted on 01/15/2023 4:35:13 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

“”The giant bronze statue, called “The Embrace,” shows the hands and arms of the Kings in a hug.””

It would take a really active imagination to see that in the statue....


12 posted on 01/15/2023 4:36:00 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/01/11/martin-luther-king-documentary-coretta-scott-king-romance-boston-the-embrace-memorial-how-to-watch/


13 posted on 01/15/2023 4:36:40 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yup, it sure is


14 posted on 01/15/2023 4:38:08 PM PST by M_Continuum
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15 posted on 01/15/2023 4:38:18 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: BenLurkin

Remember way back in the days of the dinosaurs when we thought that Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, was considered a prime intellectual bed of the country.

Only the bed remains. A puss, blood, and feces infected bed. Proof that liberalism “progresses” in but one direction.

Harvard is long gone. The talking ani assault on MIT continue, and it’ll be pushing “woke math” in the near future. Sad.


16 posted on 01/15/2023 4:38:29 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: BenLurkin

The artist was chosen for phenotypical reasons.


17 posted on 01/15/2023 4:38:34 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: BenLurkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Willis_Thomas#:~:text=Hank%20Willis%20Thomas%20%28born%201976%29%20is%20an%20American,related%20to%20identity%2C%20history%2C%20and%20popular%20culture.%20

https://hankwillisthomas.com/about

The sculpture.........................


18 posted on 01/15/2023 4:38:56 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

That’s hideous. 😖


19 posted on 01/15/2023 4:39:53 PM PST by Allegra
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20 posted on 01/15/2023 4:40:10 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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