[Java4Jay]

There are color differences now where words were removed, and a slight yellow stain was left on the stone Friday when workers tried an alternate process using walnut shells to blast the stone.

"It looks unfinished," Jackson said. "The artist is furious about leaving his work unfinished."

[2banana]

Ugliest memorial ever. Even before they tried to fix it.

[Frank_2001]

“using walnut shells to blast the stone.”

That sounds borderline racist to me! ;)

[21twelve]

50 years ago.

And I’m guessing even MLK would be scratching his head at what we have become.

Permits and insurance to use steel shot.

A Chinese guy doing the sculpture.

Bungling of wording “carved in stone”

And an idiot news writer so one STILL doesn’t really know what the hell is going on.

[Java4Jay]

The now-removed inscription was a paraphrase from King’s “Drum Major” speech. It read, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”

Critics, including the poet Maya Angelou, argued the quotation was taken out of context when it was paraphrased and shortened. Angelou said it made King sound arrogant.

??? I don’t get it

[rhubarbk]

12%

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Are they also going to make his face look less Chinese?

Or would that further anger the "artist"?

[al baby]

Here can we do this at a later date just because ?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They have to write on the bottom of the statue:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, but sadly that day will probably never happen so long as the slave party aka the democrat party continues to exist, a party that I Martin Luther King jr. refused to belong to.”

http://www.humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/

[svcw]

To be assassination and time do great things for a person’s memory

[MeshugeMikey]

they had BEST get it DONE on TIME

Obama is going to go POSTAL if he cant sell his Let Freedom RIngs on Ebay