Cousin of Coretta Scott King REALLY Despises New MLK Sculpture; Publishes Scathing Response

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A massive bronze sculpture honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Loretta Scott King was unveiled on the Boston Common on Friday. The work, titled “The Embrace,” was created by Washington state conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. It is his interpretation of a photo of the two taken on the day King learned he’d won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The $10 million sculpture stands 20-feet tall and is 40-feet wide, according to WCVB-TV.

The city of Boston is significant because that is where King met his future wife. King was studying for his doctorate at Boston University and Coretta was attending the New England Conservatory, WCVB reported. “One of the Kings’ first dates was on the Common, and the Parkman Bandstand was the final location of the 1965 Freedom Rally.”

Images of the piece taken from different angles and the photograph upon which it is based can be viewed in the tweets below.

Many were taken aback by the sculpture’s remarkable resemblance to a penis.

One of the most outspoken critics was Coretta King’s cousin, Seneca Scott, who told The New York Post on Sunday, “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,’” said Scott, who currently lives in Oakland, California.

“If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not,'” he said.

Seneca blamed the design of the sculpture on our “woke” culture and told the Post “The woke algorithm is just broke, I don’t know what else to tell you.”

“If you went through all of that and that’s what you came up with, something’s wrong,” he said.

Seneca expressed his outrage over the sculpture in an essay, titled “A Masturbatory ‘Homage’ to My Family,” and published by Compact Magazine. He began, “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.”

He summed up his sentiments by saying, “Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members — one of the all-time greatest American families.”

Seneca wasn’t alone in his criticism. Below, journalist Michael Knowles reacts to the statue which he considers “grotesque.” And he’s absolutely right.

Another Twitter user appears to ridicule the sculpture in the following tweet.

The Daily Mail reported that the sculpture was panned by art critics, with many wondering why the artist chose not to include heads and bodies. Former Guardian art critic Waldemar Januszczak said it was “a particularly bad monument to Martin Luther King.”

One critic asked, “Were they really so scared to commission a full figure naturalistic likeness?”

Another told the Mail it was “[a] great shame, perhaps the concept was far better than the execution…it just looks…awful!”

In case anyone is curious, according to the Post, the sculpture was approved by the couple’s son, Martin Luther King III.

 

A previous version of this article appeared in The Western Journal.

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2 thoughts on “Cousin of Coretta Scott King REALLY Despises New MLK Sculpture; Publishes Scathing Response”

  1. I don’t know the ins and outs of the MLK family, but if MLKIII approved of this work of art, he is part of the headless variety of the family.
    Michael Knowles summed up the “Art” quite well.

    It looks like some creation of George Floyd, that is a shrine to a drug addled criminal in Minneapolis, just done by a orally infatuated artist.
    Call it art, or whatever, but cover it up!

    • I don’t see how this escaped notice. The concept is completely stupid from the very beginning. A sculpture with just arms is stupid and arms in an embrace will always look goofy. Two arms shaking hands or something might be okay, but I don’t ever see a way two embracing arms doesn’t look goofy without more of the body. In this case, it is worse than goofy looking like two hands holding a giant penis or a turd, depending on one’s perspective.

      I’m thinking that maybe the simplest answer is best. The “artist” is actually terrible at working with heads, so he decided to just skip them.

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