For more on the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument,which was made in China,read Ben Barrack’s articles here and here. For an honest assessment of MLK’s political views,read this article.
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Reminds me of the statue of Stalin that once graced Prague. The monument is an embarrassing pastiche of the type of symbolism that is all too familiar to me from my decade in China- a man towering over us plebs,not deigning to even look at us,back straight with arms in determined,static pose. None of the heavy lifting we looking up are accustomed to,but then he doesn't seem to acknowledge those doing the fighting,the striving,the suffering. But then the point of such memorials is to mythologise such heroes to strike an eternal distance between them and us. At least the mass-murderer Mao is always shown finished,with his feet moving slightly forward as with those showing the pharaohs. Compare MLK simply standing in stone with those Michelangelo had wresting themselves from their stone prisons. But then,because in the end the memorial has no honest,sincere meaning,$800,000 had to be spent simply to cover the superfluous blocks on either side with quotations. http://tracesofevil.com
When Ia small service business in HK 15 years ago,one of my custoers was Marc Faber,financial guru. I went by his office one day and he must have had 30-40 busts and statues of Chairman Mao in his office. I didn't ask why but assumed he was manufacturing them for sale anywhere people gave a damn about Chairman Mao. You don't have to like raw oysters to run a seafood reataurant,I guess.
I wonder what was the second highest bid on carving this $50-60 stone statue was? I'm in the business and would have gladly taken the job for even $100,000. Who got all this money? How much went to Obama's stash? Alot of homes coule have been built for really poor people with the extra 9M+ for this tribute to bravery and the selflessness of his acts not to mention the wealth it added to his descendants in royalties and his own personal wealth. How many millions could he have made on speaking tours alone. He could have even set up a quasi-religious "circus"to entertain his followers. Maybe that's what Obama can do after he gets the bum's rush from the White House,by electoral process or his arrest by the FBI. Or should I call hin Harrison Bounel as his papers indicate or barry Seotoro. Who knows what other aliases he has. Congratulations,morons for electing this fraud. Aren't you proud you showed you were not prejudiced against black or even 1/2 black. Kenyan,Indonesian,Hawaiian,Briitish or whatever.