A cousin of Coretta Scott King, the wife of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., slammed a new $10 million sculpture made in the couple’s honor, saying it “looked like a penis” from certain angles.
According to HuffPost, Seneca Scott, Scott King’s cousin, told several outlets that “The Embrace,” a sculpture unveiled on Friday (January 13) in Boston, was insulting to his family. The piece was inspired by a famous photo of the Kings hugging after the late civil rights icon found out he won the 1964 Nobel Peace prize and shows the pairs’ arms intertwined without their heads.
Scott told CNN that while the sculpture looks as it was intended from some angles, from other perspectives “it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.”
In Compact Mag, Scott described the sculpture of his cousin and King as “a pair of hands hugging a beefy penis.”
He also told the New York Post that the piece was “doubly insulting to the Black…
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