Coretta Scott King’s cousin, Seneca Scott, echoed the reaction of many who viewed the MLK statue recently exhibited in Boston:
“The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that. But then when it came out, a little boy pointed out — ‘That’s a penis!’ and everyone was like, ‘Yo, that’s a big old dong, man.’”
Ouch!
Unfortunately, explanations offered by the sculptor, Hank Willis Thomas, did not help matters.
He posted this on his website:
When we recognize that all storytelling is an abstraction, all representation is an abstraction, hopefully it allows us to be open to more dynamic and complex forms of representation that don’t stick us to narrative that oversimplifies a person or their legacy, and I think this work really tries to get to the heart of that…
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… – American Thinker
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