MLK Memorial - Made in China

[tech2101]

A monumental insult to Dr. King

But some critics have asked a pretty basic question: Was there no American sculptor, especially an African-American sculptor, who was capable of sculpting a statue of Dr. King?

Apparently not, at least according to the people who did the selection. What’s more, even though hundreds of thousands of experienced - - and unionized - - American construction workers are currently unemployed, did we really need to bring in workers from China to put the sculpture together?

Yes, Edward Jackson Jr., the executive architect of the project, recently told Courtland Milloy of the Washington Post. “Not only did we need an artist, we needed someone with the means and methods of putting those large stones together,” Jackson said. “We don’t do this in America. We don’t handle stones of this size.”

 

[delldude]

Find who compromises the King Memorial Foudation..........

Besides, the free room and board at Crystal City probably came off Obama's tab the Chinese hold.

 

[tech2101]

Find who compromises the King Memorial Foudation..........

Besides, the free room and board at Crystal City probably came off Obama's tab the Chinese hold.

I lived in Atlanta for some years. I was not impressed with the King Foundation. MLK would shudder to see what has been done to exploit his name.

 

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I lived in Atlanta for some years. I was not impressed with the King Foundation. MLK would shudder to see what has been done to exploit his name.

At the big event in Wisconsin and several other areas, it seems such as you say, many of his views and words have been twisted inside out by the extreme radical left. I wonder if anyone told them he was republican conservative.

 

[tech2101]

At the big event in Wisconsin and several other areas, it seems such as you say, many of his views and words have been twisted inside out by the extreme radical left. I wonder if anyone told them he was republican conservative.

I don't agree with your republican assessment.

I do know that he would scold his family and all the so-called civil rights activists on the scene today. He would have equal scorn for what unionism has become.

 

[Ms Tree]

Republicans in the 60's are not the same as republicans today. Regan was considered a republicans back in the 80's and cwould never run as a republican in this day and age. The parties are not even close to what they were.

 

[xUT]

A monumental insult to Dr. King

That's sad. We can build the Lincoln Memorial and so many other monuments, but have to outsource for the MLK memorial.

Sad tribute to America today.

 

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I don't agree with your republican assessment.

I do know that he would scold his family and all the so-called civil rights activists on the scene today. He would have equal scorn for what unionism has become.

Do some research, you might be surprised.

Link

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

It probably upsets democrats who pimp for the black vote that an American Icon of this stature would be republican.

 

[Ms Tree]

The parties have changed quite a bit since the 60 and 70's. Regan was a republican in 1980 but would not even be allowed into the front door of the RNC by todays standards.The dems have already had a female on the ticket as VP. We have an openly gay Congressman. Granted, the republicans have had at least two gay Congressmen (Follley and Crag) but you run them out of office once they out them selves so that really does not count. Odds are you probably have quite a few more self loathing gays but they are too scared to come out. Dems had the first black man on the ticket. First black Cabinet member as I recall as well. Several other first but I do not feel like looking them up. The republican party of today is not minority friendly.

 

[tech2101]

That's sad. We can build the Lincoln Memorial and so many other monuments, but have to outsource for the MLK memorial.

Sad tribute to America today.

I think it is only a sad tribute to the King Foundation and the King legacy.

 

[tech2101]

Do some research, you might be surprised.

Link



It probably upsets democrats who pimp for the black vote that an American Icon of this stature would be republican.

And Rick Perry was a Democrat. Party platforms have change dramatically in the last 75 years.

 

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And Rick Perry was a Democrat. Party platforms have change dramatically in the last 75 years.

Nonetheless.................... 😛.

 

[xUT]

I think it is only a sad tribute to the King Foundation and the King legacy.

You can think what you think, I can think what I think. Opinions are just that.
I am surprised that you and your atheist minions have not protested having a memorial of a Baptist Minister in the Washington Mall.

 

[Ms Tree]

Is he known for being a minister or for being an outspoken advocate of equal rights?

I am not surprised that you are surprised.

 

[xUT]

Is he known for being a minister or for being an outspoken advocate of equal rights?

I am not surprised that you are surprised.

Wiki Version

MLK lead his Ministry and Christian Followers. Without his 'FAITH', he never would be anything.
Get a clue.

-Edited By Me...

Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read a few.