The unsettling images appeared on the City of East Liverpool's social media page on Thursday. “It’s doubly insulting to the black community, who still on average … too many of us are below the poverty line,” Scott said.A police department in Ohio has shared on Facebook disturbing photos of a man and woman passed out in a car with a toddler in the backseat after the pair had allegedly overdosed on heroin. Seneca Scott called the sculpture a “waste of money” that should be “melted down.” Boston Globe via Getty Images “A solid bronze statue? Like, what are we doing here?” he asked. Seneca told The Post that while he couldn’t speak for other members of the family, he felt the 25-foot-wide, 65,000-pound sculpture was a “waste of money” that should be “melted down. His grandfather’s brother, Obadiah, fathered Coretta, whom Seneca said he met once at a family reunion before her 2006 death. Seneca’s grandfather was one of 25 children of Jeff Scott, the son of a slave who became one of Alabama’s wealthiest black landowners, Seneca said. Boston Globe via Getty Images The 65,000-pound statue was approved by the couple’s son Martin Luther King III and cost $10 million to produce. King’s kin criticized coverage of the statue. “This is awful,” the British rapper and podcaster Zuby added in a tweet. Online critics were harsh, too, including some who agreed that the work was pornographic. “If you went through all of that and that’s what you came up with, something’s wrong,” he said. “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,” the artist says on his website.īut Seneca told The Post, “The woke algorithm is just broke, I don’t know what else to tell you. It’s unclear how much public money may have gone into the sculpture. The artwork’s funding was the result of a public/private fundraising partnership, the city of Boston said on its online site. Martin Luther King III approved the piece, which was designed by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas for the organization Embrace Boston. hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Price in 1964. The sculpture is an artistic interpretation of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr. Members of the King family last week unveiled the artwork near where MLK and Coretta first met in college. Seneca told The Post that “woke” culture allowed the expensive abstract experiment to come to fruition. He wrote scornfully in Compact mag, “Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members - one of the all-time greatest American families.” and his wife, Coretta Scott King, embracing. “If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not.’ “ “The Embrace” has been criticized for looking more like a phallic image than a depiction of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “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 the 43-year-old Oakland, Calif. “The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that,” Seneca Scott, Coretta’s cousin, told The Post by phone Sunday, referring to the new artwork on the Boston Common. The massive bronze piece, titled “The Embrace,” features two sets of arms holding each other, an artistic interpretation of the classic photo of Coretta and hubby Martin Luther King Jr. ‘penis’ statue in ‘Daily Show’ debut: ‘Can’t unsee it’Įven some kin of Coretta Scott King hate the new $10 million sculpture just dedicated to her and her iconic civil rights leader husband in Boston - with a cousin claiming it “looks like a penis.” I’m proof Democrats are wrong to call America irredeemableĮx-‘SNL’ star talks MLK Jr. Republicans damned if they do, damned if they don’t in Trump’s 2024 candidacyįire wrecks NJ home where MLK Jr.
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