MLK Memorial Posted on 08/27/2011 5:06:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at every hinge point, great men who matched the moment.
A roiling, revolutionary 18th-century British colony gives birth to the greatest cohort of political thinkers ever: Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin, Jay. The crisis of the 19th century brings forth Lincoln; the 20th, FDR.
Equally miraculous is Martin Luther King Jr. Black America's righteous revolt against a century of post-emancipation oppression could have gone in many bitter and destructive directions. It did not.
This was largely the work of one man's leadership, moral imagination and strategic genius. He turned his own deeply Christian belief that "unearned suffering is redemptive" into a creed of nonviolence that he carved into America's political consciousness. The result was not just racial liberation but national redemption.
Such an achievement, such a life, deserves a monument alongside the other miracles of our history — Lincoln, Jefferson and FDR — which is precisely where stands the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: adjacent to Roosevelt's seven acres, directly across from Jefferson's temple and bisecting the invisible cartographic line connecting the memorials for Jefferson and Lincoln, authors of America's first two births of freedom, whose promises awaited fulfillment by King.
The new King memorial has its flaws, most notably its much-debated central element, the massive 30-foot stone carving of a standing, arms crossed, somewhat stern King. The criticism has centered on origins: The statue was made in China by a Chinese artist.
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i had a movement
It was made in China by a Chinese sculptor, so what do you expect?
“It was made in China by a Chinese sculptor, so what do you expect?”
That’s what I’d expect.
Yes. Well, we need one now. More than ever.
Right now--today--the United States is at the most crucial hinge point in all its history.
To match this hinge point the great men will have to be great indeed!
As a matter of fact, America has produced great men by the thousands--by the millions. They stormed the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima in 1945. And many of America's great men were women.
The present need for great men and women and the present threat to the U.S.A. are greater and more serious than ever before. The threat is moral rot from within--decadence--the destroyer of civilizations--and it is more deadly than any war, plague, famine, economic depression, or anything else that has threatened America.
Where are the great men???
I see millions of morons who are willing to elect the most immoral, corrupt, self-serving, untruthful, greedy, destructive of people to powerful public office--and to allow such people to spread this deadly decadence through television, universities, Hollywood, our public schools, our courts, and everywhere else.
But this statute has the placid eye expression of a goat staring past you. Creepy.
please think or at least do some research before you blather
If I had designed the memorial, MLK’s statue would not be sculpted to resemble a grumpy white man.
I don’t get why they made him a white man either.
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I wonder whose idea it was to choose a Chinese sculptor and what is even worse make it in China. This makes it so cheap imho that it is not worth visiting
Lew Rockwell, nuff said
The Statue is as ugly as the mess MLK made.
I believe the original sculpter was an African-AMERICAN who was fired (I don’t know why). He hates that thing. He believes King should have been portrayed as a peacemaker - not like some tinpot Chinese dictator.
I’m assuming this is some corrupt, Congressional, crony-capitalism thing to bring in a Chinaman to complete it. But I don’t know. You may be right, of course: it was a cheapie job - and it looks it.
That wasn’t a dream, It was a nightmare come true.
If this is what MLK achieved, I pass.
Thanks for the article. This proves something I have felt since 9/11: you cannot ask the children or the victims to have input into art. They don’t have the training or the knowledge to make the correct decisions. It results in bad buildings and truly bad memorials. Grrr.....
MLK Memorial Oh, my gosh! You’re right! It looks like Juan Williams right after he was fired from NPR.
I’m so glad freepers have seen through this ugly mess. Again, the “genuis” (and highly gullible) Sour Kraut falls for a piece of crap.
No man is perfect, but I agree that MLK was a great man. Its a shame, however, the irony pointed out by comedian Chris Rock, something to the effect that “MLK was all about non-violence... but if there is a MLK street in your city, I GUARANTEE you there is some violence going on down there”...
That was my first thought.
And this shows it
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