>I check the news and find this.
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>http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/16/us/mlk-memorial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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>OK, it's an offputting statue. If you're going to erect a statue you should make the subject immediately recognizable. To me that could be MLK, Newt Gingrich, or the owner of your local Subway. The other thing that seems wrong about it is the arms across the chest, which is body language for self defensive thoughts. MLK was many things, some good and some bad, but self-defensive was not one of them. What you saw was what you got.
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>The actual man, just himself --
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>http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/mlk/index.jpg&imgrefurl=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/&h=298&w=448&sz=22&tbnid=Tsx4bUPb1VihIM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=131&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmartin%2Bluther%2Bking%2Bphotos%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=martin+luther+king+photos&docid=k4TXTHcNCnY4sM&sa=X&ei=VuiaTqjSEaPm0QHhxpXSBA&ved=0CDwQ9QEwAQ&dur=3014
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>The quotation was also a poor choice. An odd choice. IMO there is only one quote to choose from for a statue, a monument, and it can be said in four words: "I have a dream."
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>He was an endlessly complex man. Taylor Branch has done his best to try to capture him in a magisterial biography which I highly recommend.
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>OMG, Amazon is unloading its stock at $6.92 a copy. Buy it, buy it, buy it. It's really more of a history than a biography, settling MLK in his place and time. It won the Pulitzer Prize. If you want to understand America at that time, the Civil War coming to a boil 100 years later, read this book.
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>http://www.amazon.com/Parting-Waters-America-Years-1954-63/dp/B000WMJ610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318775133&sr=8-1
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>IMO he was the greatest American of my lifetime. And I'm old enough to remember his assassination and funeral, his plain coffin pulled by horses. That said something about him. The statue, I don't know what that says about him at all.

Statue looks as if it was modelled on Mt. Washington ?