Comments on: Disputed quote on MLK memorial to be removed

By: STL_Vet

STL_Vet — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:16:28 +0000

That doesn’t sound like a Republican to me. And, unfortunately, MLK didn’t live long enough to vote in the next presidential election — so Johnson vs. Goldwater was his last presidential election, and he definitely didn’t support the GOP that year.

J.S.K. on December 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM

We can only wonder if MLK would have supported the bondage resulting from the democratic party’s continued support of teacher’s unions over school choice, and the rise of minority single parents as a result of warfare programs just to name two misguided democratic efforts.

By: Pork-Chop

Pork-Chop — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:48:31 +0000

That hideous communist memorial should be removed and shipped back to China – it is an insult to every thinking American.

By: J.S.K.

J.S.K. — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:12:31 +0000

Replace it with:

“Martin Luther King, Republican and proud of it”

right2bright on December 12, 2012 at 9:30 AM

I wish, but I don’t think so. From Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize lecture, given December 11, 1964:

Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression. The voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right. They defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.

That doesn’t sound like a Republican to me. And, unfortunately, MLK didn’t live long enough to vote in the next presidential election — so Johnson vs. Goldwater was his last presidential election, and he definitely didn’t support the GOP that year.

By: Ted Torgerson

Ted Torgerson — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:03:18 +0000

Progressive Heretic on December 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM

I agree. Such an impersonal monument to a such a charismatic man. What a wasted opportunity.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:35:23 +0000

Dr. Martin Luther Mao.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:34:22 +0000

And while they are at it, could they make him black & look less like Mao?

By: Progressive Heretic

Progressive Heretic — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:16:52 +0000

The sculpture is distinctly Maoist, and doesn’t evoke the spirit of MLK at all, IMHO. I happen to know also that the original design had King facing the Jefferson Memorial to reflect the relationship of King’s Dream to the Declaration of Independence, but the sculptor worked off a negative, and reversed the direction, so now King is just staring off into the void instead. A real missed opportunity, and now we have a permanent memorial right on our national mall not to American freedom but to Chinese Communism.

By: landlines

landlines — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:55:14 +0000

The MLK Memorial was made in China by a master sculptor living under a Communist regime…The design for the memorial was at least conceived in California.

…under another Communist regime.

By: cmsinaz

cmsinaz — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:22:29 +0000

2nd that right2bright

By: Mr. Prodigy

Mr. Prodigy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:50:09 +0000

The design for the memorial was at least conceived in California.

Because that’s far better than communist China, right?

By: ninjapirate

ninjapirate — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:37:19 +0000

Memorial sculptor Lei Yixin recommended removing the inscription this way to avoid harming the monument’s structural integrity.

Fun Fact, Lei Yixin makes Mao statues and one he likely(I say likely because the statue came from the same city as his studio) built was erected in Tibet as a “gift”.

http://blog.studentsforafreetibet.org/2006/03/the-bigger-they-come-the-harder-they-fall/

By: right2bright

right2bright — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:30:41 +0000

Replace it with:

“Martin Luther King, Republican and proud of it”