Days before the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the City of Boston unveiled its new memorial, “The Embrace,” in the civil rights icon’s honor. The sculpture is modeled after a photo of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, hugging after he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
However, the concept of the unique sculpture has already drawn sharp criticism, even from members of the King family.
The bronze memorial is 20 feet long and 26 feet wide and reflects the arms and hands of King placed around his wife’s back as the two embrace. However, as reviews of the sculpture pour in, many express that they’re not impressed.
“I like the intention but not the sculpture,” one person commented on Instagram.
“It needs the source photo to give context: that’s a problem for me,” another person wrote.
Some of the harshest criticism came from members of the King family.
“It looks like a penis,” Seneca Scott, Coretta Scott King’s cousin,
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