Bring back The Emancipation statue

Paid for by pennies raised from former slaves, The Emancipation statue was erected and dedicated in Washington in 1876 on the 11th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln -- 10 years before the Statue of Liberty was dedicated. A replica of The Emancipation was erected in Boston in 1879.

Democrats hated it.

Democrats still do. Two years ago, they got the replica banned in Boston. The local art commission held a hearing -- a show trial for the statue -- and voted to haul it away.

Commissioner Ekua Holmes told WBUR, “What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece. And I feel like on the Boston landscape we should not have works that bring shame to any group of people that are citizens, not just of Boston, but of the United States.”

Only in the 21st century would the emancipation of black slaves bring shame to black people. 

Democrats also want to tear down The Emancipation statue in DC as well. The city’s fake congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said in 2021, “Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation in any way, and it shows. 

“The statue fails to note how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. Understandably, they were only recently liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, 'it showed the negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.'

“At the end of last year, Boston removed its replica of the statue and plans to place it in a publicly accessible location where it can be better contextualized. It is time for Congress to place the original statue in a museum, too.”

The fake congresswoman is black. She believes a black artist should have done the statue. The people of Boston hired Hank Willis Thomas, a black artists, to make a statue of Martin Luther King. He chose to make it of King hugging Coretta Scott when they were in Boston. The statue debuted this weekend.

He called it The Embrace.

The rest of us call it The Embarrassment.

The whole world laughs at Boston.

Seneca Scott, a cousin of Coretta Scott King, told the New York Post, “The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that.

“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.’”

Rasheed N. Walters of the Boston Herald tweeted, “Given that I am not White, I am safe from ANY charges of racism for saying the MLK embrace statue is aesthetically unpleasant. The famous photo should have been a FULL statue of the couple and their embrace. What a huge swing and miss in honoring the Dr. & Mrs. King. SAD!”

He is right. The New York Post reported, “Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill aimed at fighting ‘white supremacy’ by attaching criminal charges to certain forms of hate speech.” A white person who criticizes a black person — say, Congresswoman Lee — could face federal charges.

Nevertheless, the Daily Wire’s Frank J. Fleming tweeted, “That MLK statue looks obscene from certain angles, but when you see the whole thing you realize it’s supposed to depict the result of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King having gone through the teleporter in The Fly together.”

In its defense of the statue, the Washington Post said, “The piece, of course, was both commissioned and sculpted with good intentions. The city released a call to artists in 2017 to create a memorial to the Kings, who met in Boston, eventually choosing Thomas, a renowned Brooklyn-based artist.”

Remind me again, what is the name of that road that is paved by good intentions?

After tweeting about the statue, Walters wrote a column about it. He said, “This spectacular failure has been the subject of countless jokes around the country. However, Black Bostonians are not laughing; we are outraged, dissatisfied, and upset that this opportunity was squandered.

“We don’t see any statues depicting the severed arm of General George Washington brandishing a sword. So, why should we see statues of our African American heroes mutilated?”

But, not everyone hates it. BBC reported, “Martin Luther King's son defends controversial new headless statue.” Ah, the headless statue. Wasn’t that in a story by Washington Irving?

The subliminal message is that the Kings were so embarrassed by the statue that they did not want their faces shown.

Their son said, “I think that's a huge representation of bringing people together. I think the artist did a great job. I'm satisfied.”

He also said, “And in this time, day and age, when there's so much division, we need symbols that talk about bringing us together.”

The statue did bring us together — to laugh and poke fun at the woke dummies behind this preposterous sculpture. The statue has become a real-life Emperor Without Clothes because it took a child to point out the obvious: That’s a penis.

Like Lincoln, King too was assassinated, a martyr to freedom. He does not deserve the ridicule this $10 million lump of metal brought. Send The Embrace to a museum (an X-rated one) and bring back Lincoln.