Designed and built by the Chinese.More egregiously, despite promises from the organization to use local unionized labor for the project, the sculpture was completed using workers imported from China working for nothing but “national pride.”
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The fact that the Chinese workers were not being paid was only discovered when the BAC sent an investigator to determine if they were being exploited. While they were given room and board and hoped to be paid upon returning to China, using free labor to construct Kings monument seems to fly in the face of what he stood for.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/ … -laborers/
We had to pay for the privilege to set up a memorial.The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil-rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 to use his words and image — and at least one scholar thinks that Dr. King would find such an arrangement offensive.
http://amerpundit.com/2011/08/23/mlk-st … tion-800k/
And look at it
Why did we let the Chinese artist depict our symbol of non violence and peace in a fascist pose? Seriously you could swap out MLK with Hitler or Stalin and it would fit into the design and pose of this statue.
This statue is a national disgrace and should be torn down and rebuilt with American labor and designed by an American artist. The MLK family should get nothing. Also they should make MLK not look.like a black mussolini.
