• themaninblack@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    This statue of King was also thought to be an improper depiction.

    “We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”

    -Edward Rothstein

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      10 days ago

      Okay but people thought the arms thing was a depiction of fellatio, so not remotely similar in reception.

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        Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression