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Originally Posted by Botnst
...The King statue, to be carved by Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin, will be chiseled out of a granite boulder called "The Stone of Hope." It will be the largest statue on the Mall, bigger than those at the nearby memorials to Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. Lei has made a full-size clay model in China but has not yet carved the granite statue. ... The design is not the first controversy over the memorial. Critics said last year that the sculptor should be black or at least American, and that King would have been appalled by China's poor record on human rights.
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A Chinese sculptor/chiseler?
WHO, or WHAT, approved this person in the first place? Is this mentioned anywhere in any article? How does this even get to be voted on?
A rock named "The Stone of Hope?"
Is this a "normal" symbolic procedure that stone-carvers do/perform just before they put the hammer/chisel to the stone...sort of like the reverse of steel-erectors putting the American Flag on top of the structure when they "top" it off? Or is this some "ancient Chinese secret" that's performed to "sooth the spirits of the rock" or whatever earth-bound voodoo they do over there?
No wonder they have such a poor human-rights record...it appears that they worship rocks and minerals and could give a Chinese New Year's Rats' Butt about their own people. How they managed to progress this far into the world with hair-brained beliefs and themes is beyond comprehension...
And, the committee approving all of this...where are their "stones?" Or would it be better to ask "Who paid them off to keep their "stones" tucked away?"
And finally, if I hadn't known that the sculptor/chiseler was Chinese and looking at that picture, I still would feel like something was not "quite right" about M's face...my mind's eye would think that his face needed to be "drawn out" just a bit more (it looks too "Mao-ish"/pudgy)...but, it could have been the camera angle when the shot was taken...but still, if you're going to use a photo to publicize and promote, wouldn't you seek enough opinions to be sure you're putting the best "face" out there?
MO? If I ever get a chance to get to D.C., that thing won't be on my "To Do" list...it appears that someone, somewhere, didn't care that much about MLK and whether these issues would be brought up, are being brought up, or that diddly-squat is being done to correct them.
Who's @55 are we kissing here?
I'm not even a shadow close to being black/African and I'm insulted by this...
Where does the NAACP stand on this? Or were they "paid off" to back off?
Disgraceful and...sad...
