MLK Statue... Made in China.... Head Down, Hand to my Face......

[MADem]

4. I thought he looked like Mao's baby brother. Now I know why!

It really is a HORRIBLE statue. Someone showed me one of the first views of it, before it hit the paper, and asked me where it was located--I said "North Korea? China?" Much hilarity ensued as a consequence.

I know I am not the easiest person to please, but I think they could have done a MUCH better job on that thing. It's fine to be artsy and different, but the sculpture should bear at least a passing resemblance to the guy being honored. Hell, Lincoln looks like Lincoln, and we had much better photography a century after Lincoln sat for some of his portraits.

And far be it from me to argue with Maya Angelou:

Celebrated poet Maya Angelou has gone so far as to say that even the inscription on the memorial makes him look like "an arrogant twit."

I also don't care much for the WW2 memorial--from a short distance, the architecture makes it look like the Nazis won the war.