Why am I not surprised. It is shocking enough that a Chinese national, rather than an American, won the commission to sculpt the body of Martin Luther King. Even more outrageous that the model of the sculpture is fashioned in Changsha. But look at it! An aggressive, unsympathetic posture -- arms crossed! Not representative of the inspirational Reverend leader, but of a Communist war-hero. What a horror! But this is by design. The Obama admininstation has been playing class warfare from the begining. For one thing, the selection process killed any chance of having an inspiring granite monument of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall in Washington,DC. Unlike the competition for the overall design of a memorial for "the drum major" (900 applicants paid $95 to compete), there was no national competition for selecting an artist to create the Stone of Hope with Dr. King emerging from it. Why not!!!,, (*)(*)(*)(*) do we owe the Chinese that much??????? It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers. However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei's rendering. This i laughable if it isnt a travesty. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...artin-Luther-King-memorial-made-in-China.html
be a lot funnier if the Chinese sculptor made MLK look Chinese and had him carrying chopsticks. As of now, just another outrageous case of outsourcing.
