BOSTON—The new Dr. Martin Luther King sculpture in Boston Common called “The Embrace” has not exactly been received with open arms.
Unveiled this past Martin Luther King Day weekend, the behemoth 20-foot-tall bronze has been likened to male genitalia, including by some of King’s own family members, and mocked on the polite end of criticism as a $10 million waste—in reference to its whopping price tag.
Seneca Scott, a cousin of Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King’s wife, called it an “egregious example of the woke machine’s callousness and vanity” and found the piece and its price tag offensive to black Americans who need jobs to pay bills, keep food on the table, and pay for rising energy costs….