Coretta Scott King’s Cousin Says Boston’s MLK Statue Looks Like A ‘Penis’ & Now It Lives Rent Free In Our Minds

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The Internet is cutting up after a monument meant to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King’s legacy in Boston was unveiled. One of Coretta’s cousins fittingly said the MLK statue looks like “a penis.” See the tribute and people’s reactions inside…

A tribute to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King has sparked outrage on the Internet.

Five years in the making, “The Embrace” is a 20-foot tall, 25-foot bronze wide sculpture by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas that was unveiled Friday (ahead of MLK Day) on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, where Dr. King gave a speech on April 23, 1965, to a crowd of 22,000. The monument was inspired by a photo of Dr. King and his wife, which captured them hugging after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The thing is, the statue, which cost $10 million to create, has a very interesting artistic interpretation.

Watch the unveiling below:

Seneca Scott, a cousin of Coretta Scott King and a community organizer in Oakland, California, reacted to the statue on Twitter after it was unveiled, and he’s not feeling it.

”I still can’t get over how they tried to play my fam,” he tweeted.

In another tweet, he wrote, “Melt it down.”

He said the “penis statue” is insulting to his family and the black community.

“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. “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. resident.

“If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not.’”

According to reports, Martin Luther King III, Dr. King & Coretta’s son, approved the piece.

“If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke,” Seneca Scott told CNN.

The community activist also wrote an article in Compact magazine, sharing his sentiments about the “penis” statue.

By now, I’m sure you’ve seen it. The new Boston sculpture “honoring” Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, looks more like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis than a special moment shared by the iconic couple.

Ten million dollars were wasted to create a masturbatory metal homage to my legendary family members—one of the all-time greatest American families. Still, the Boston debacle could be a blessing in disguise, by exposing the insidiousness of astroturfed woke movements that have come to dominate black America: How could anyone fail to see that this was a major dick move (pun intended) that brings very few, if any, tangible benefits to struggling black families?

So now Boston has a big bronze penis statue that’s supposed to represent black love at its purest and most devotional. This is no accident. The woke algorithm is racist and classist. Therefore, its programming will always produce things that harm black and poor people. This sculpture is an especially egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity. Hopefully, it will show more black people that these progressives just aren’t in this for our benefit.

You can read the full article here.

Seneca isn’t the only person up in arms over the statue. See some Twitter reactions below:

 

 

 

A mess! Are you embracing “The Embrace”?

Photo: Associated Press

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