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[quote=Anonymous]I get it.  There are a dearth of monuments to anything but white males, so it would be great if this one could be amazing.  Still, it's just silly to imply that it's less than stellar because the people who worked to create it were a) all white people, and b) didn't want a black man to have a great memorial.  I mean, really?  If anything, I think the issues with thia memorial have been in large part because there are too many visions of who he was and what he stood for, and it ended up bringing too many cooks into the kitchen.  There is the MLK from your high school history book (sainted martyr for civil rights), there is the man himself (good intentions, but flawed like all humans), the Christian (too religious to memorialize), the political leader (who had opinions of a lot more than civil rights--his later work began to be a bit socialist-sounding), and many other facets.  They ultimately only wanted to memorialize the first aspect, and basically make him the face of the civil rights movement, but he was too complex, and it was too soon (Too many who knew him personally are still alive), so there were objections to that kind of simplification.[/quote]

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