'It's A Big Old Dong' - $10 Million MLK Statue Raises Ire Of Black Community
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A massive bronze sculpture entitled ‘The Embrace’ has been slammed by the family of the late Martin Luther King for resembling a penis. The artwork has been drawing confused looks in the Boston neighbourhood where the iconic civil-rights leader hails from. Supposedly, the artwork features two sets of arms holding each other in an embrace, but as one Boston resident pointed out, ‘Yo, that’s a big old Dong, man’:
“If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not.’ “BREAKING: The bronze sculpture called “The Embrace” honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has just been unveiled on the Boston Common
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