The bronze sculpture commemorating an iconic hug between Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife has sparked criticism from the family and people online.
, was inspired by a famous photo showing King and Scott King embracing after he learns he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The sculpture focuses on the spouses’ intertwined arms without their heads, prompting some skewed perspectives.
Scott conceded that when taken in from all angles it looks like two people hugging each other. But when viewed in a particular way, he said, “it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.”, writing that it looks “like a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis.”"The Embrace" in the Boston Common is a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King., saying the work was “doubly insulting to the Black community.
“The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that,” Scott told the tabloid. “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.’”“If you had showed that ... to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not,’” he added.
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