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To: nickcarraway
I would like to see the Martin Luther King monument removed from the Mall. Not only was King himself a preacher, he led a large religious organization and is named after the founder of the Protestant Reformation. Clearly the MLK monument is a religious symbol lifting up for veneration a ordained religious leader of a particular sect over all others.

What's next? Pope John Paul II arguably was critical in freeing more people (all of Eastern Europe and Russia, hundreds of millions of people) from a more repressive system (gulag era Soviet Communism) than King's mere 20 million American blacks freed from Jim Crow.

Can we erect a John Paul II statue on the Mall?

9 posted on 01/14/2017 11:41:47 AM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: Jack Black
Not to mention: the MLK statue is itself a Soviet style monstrosity. By far the ugliest object on the Mall.


11 posted on 01/14/2017 11:44:21 AM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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