File this one under IRONY
Courtland Milloy’s column “Having a black sculptor for King would have been nice” linked @
Mr. Obama tear down that statue!........
Milloy’s only problem with Stalin is that he wasn’t black.
Just another racist example of why DIVERSITY blows!
We were in DC a couple of weeks ago and saw the King Memorial and wasn’t impressed. They were putting the finishing touches on it but still, I thought it was mediocre.
However,the WW2 memorial was very impressive!
Looks more like Mugabe in a Mao suit.
king looks chinese! and part black.
There is a huge segment of people that are not happy with this memorial. Who in their right minds commissioned the Chinese do make this?
The statue is grotesque.
It is an insult to the memory of Dr. King.
The guy didn’t even finish it! /s
That is nasty.
Well since King was a Communist it seems fitting.
Visit any post-Soviet country to see similar stalinist statues in public space. I’ve seen many and have photographs of them.
Back in 2008, another Post columnist, Marc Fisher, complained that the planned monument depicted King “in the arrogant stance of a dictator, clad in a boxy suit, with an impassive, unapproachable mien, looking more like an East Bloc Politburo member than an inspirational, transformational preacher who won a war armed with nothing but truth and words.”
Mao
Brezhnev
Giant head of a young Mao (look at the tiny people on the scaffolding in front)
I like these best:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away". ~ Shelley
I would file this under sad...a great American hero depicted in such a trite and ugly fashion.
Martin Luther King was a conservative and woulda voted for Sarah Palin
/s
Snicker.