Reference: An MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King memorial is set for Boston Common | Boston.com
Yes, a huge pile of 22 foot tall bronze disembodied hands doing…something, not sure what…is the Boston version of the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We assume it is symbolic of something, but we’re not exactly clear on what. Lady MacBeth? The state wrestling championships? The need to constantly wash our hands in this COVID era? Could it be a giant bottle of hand sanitizer? That would actually be pretty helpful since people seem likely to be putting their hands all over this thing trying to figure it out. Vaguely pornographic too perhaps, possibly depending on the angle. But in any event, it doesn’t exactly scream out “Dr. King was here,” does it?*** If unfamiliar with it, you’re going to have to do some contextualizing to figure out what the impetus behind it was.
Artist’s rendering.
Well, it does have the incidental benefit, as we have learned from all the pothering about Confederate and Revolutionary War and Founding Fathers and other statues recently, of not necessarily appearing to be about what it is supposedly about. Even if at some point in the future Dr. King’s reputation goes into the tank – like when the white supremacists take over from…well, the white supremacists according to the BLM woke crowd – you don’t have to get rid of it, just call it something else, the “Donald J. Trump Hands-In-The-Till Memorial” might be fitting.
We hope the sponsors have taken into consideration that, in the current and foreseeable environment, it certainly is going to need a 24 hour guard on it, since it is practically an engraved invitation to vandalism from those white supremacists. That is at least until Rep. Ocasio-Cortez “deprograms” all the white supremacist zealots and turns them all into BLM Antifa zealots instead. See our post of January 17, 2021, Line Up For The Reeducation Camps!
At any rate, it’s interesting yet curious that this thing is going up soon in the current political atmosphere, in which most of the BLM and “progressives” have moved well on from Dr. King’s non-violence philosophy and decided that the only way to get what they want – which is to run the country and make it a socialist empire without any of these annoying white supremacists (like police) around – is to simply take what they want regardless of who gets hurt. That is, none of these people have any use for Dr. King since to them he is a spineless accommodationist. See our posts of October 13, 2020, The Gutless Oregon Government – Yes, Let’s Let The Tail Wag The Dog, of September 13, 2020, Shame, Shame on BLM, of September 2, 2020, Looting As Reparations Update – In New York It Is Much Simpler, Just Cut A Check, and of August 12, 2020, Did You Know That BLM Considers Looting To Constitute Reparations? True. So, alas, any recognition of Dr. King these days is a day late and a dollar short to the “new” activists.
Nevertheless, a Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to you all!
***What do you think? Should we disallow the “Dr.” here, since he wasn’t a medical Dr., like Jill Biden isn’t a medical Dr.? We don’t think we will, criticise us as you wish.