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MLK Hug Statue Controversy

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With all the statues getting torn down one was unveiled today for Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, that might be on the chopping block:

By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple. Created by the organization Embrace Boston, the sculpture has inspired mad jokes on Twitter, and rightly so. But for my family, it’s rather insulting. You see, Coretta was my first cousin, my grandfather’s niece, and the daughter of my great uncle Obediah Scott.
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If you haven't seen it, the pictures are online. It's, um, an usual sculpture, to say the least. It's two pairs of arms entwined around each other, supposedly representing a photograph of Dr King and his wife at the moment he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
I'm definitely seeing penis. Either way, it's a bloody awful statue.

At least the Canberra one looks like an owl from one direction.
 
It's a weird looking thing from some angles but otherwise seems a better example of public art than many - all in my opinion of course.

What is "woke" about this?
 
Darat said:
It's a weird looking thing from some angles but otherwise seems a better example of public art than many - all in my opinion of course.

What is "woke" about this?
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Because it's a somewhat abstract sculpture commemorating a pair of ******* who were at the heart of the civil rights movement. :rolleyes:

A proper, non-woke, sculpture would commemorate a white, male, Confederate general.
 
Darat said:
What is "woke" about this?
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In this case I wouldn't call it "woke", just weird.

(New art is often controversial at first.)

I remember when the Vietnam war memorial at the National mall was first unveiled a lot of people didn't like it because it wasn't what they expected a war memorial to look like.
 
On first viewing, it was just weird. Then when I thought penis, i saw the penis, a giant penis.

Regardless, its ugly and I'm fine with it getting torn down on that score.
 
I had a tough time parsing what was going on with the statue. The first article I saw about it had a photo from an odd angle. The article wasn't even about the controversy, so I blame the photographer/editor for choosing such a horrible angle. Then I saw the photo it was based on, and the statue from another angle, and it made sense.
 
The Don said:
Because it's a somewhat abstract sculpture commemorating a pair of ******* who were at the heart of the civil rights movement. :rolleyes:

A proper, non-woke, sculpture would commemorate a white, male, Confederate general.
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I'm sure that's what Senaca Scott, a member of the Choctaw nation and relative of Corretta Scott King, was thinking when he wrote:

Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members.....

...The woke algorithm is racist and classist. Therefore, its programming will always produce things that harm black and poor people.
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ETA: That being said, the only thing that appears to be especially woke about the statue is the organization behind it which seems to mouth wokish platitudes.
 
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Darat said:
It's a weird looking thing from some angles but otherwise seems a better example of public art than many - all in my opinion of course.

What is "woke" about this?
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The Usual Suspects, most notably the NYP, Bitchute and WT, don't like it, ergo it's "woke".
 
That....is totally a massive dong. Gotta Google other angles to see what else the artist was trying to convey.
 
Darat said:
Despite having a predilection to seeing members I have to say I don't see one in this sculpture.
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In the angle of the OP article, you really don't see a big ol' horizontal phallus, glans to the right? In fairness, it might be the only angle to see it this way.
 
Having looked at other pictures of the sculpture, the photo accompanying the OP seems to have been chosen for looking particularly dongish. Had I not been primed to see something phallic, I doubt that I would have seen anything other than bad art.

I will now go and feel inadequate.
 
Masque said:
Having looked at other pictures of the sculpture, the photo accompanying the OP seems to have been chosen for looking particularly dongish. Had I not been primed to see something phallic, I doubt that I would have seen anything other than bad art.

I will now go and feel inadequate.
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Honestly, it looks more like someone wrestling with a giant turd.
 
"You know how there's a photo of when MLK hugged his wife one time?"

"Yes?"

"Lemme reduce it to a set of rounded, brown, gargantuan shapes, and call it public art."

"Do you prefer cash or credit?"
 
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