Hodgetwins condemn Boston's $10 million Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statue by Hank Willis as a "monstrosity" depicting an embrace after his Nobel win, mocking its resemblance to a hand job or severed heads. They question how pedestrians recognize the figures and speculate the artist kept $9.5 million while spending only $50,000. Ultimately, this outrage highlights a deep disconnect between public funding for art and community expectations of dignified historical representation. [Automatically generated summary]
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The MLK Statue Monstrosity00:02:24
Yeah, got a new show.
Got a damn good show.
All right, so the other day was Martin Luther King Day.
Man, he's a great man.
Not Courtney Conservatives.
He was a socialist.
Yeah.
They called him a Marxist.
Yeah.
What a shame.
People do anything to sell a movie.
But anyway, they released this.
I would call it a statue, but I'm going to call it a monstrosity.
Right up in Boston.
They paid this artist, Hank Willis, by the name of Hank Willis.
This is a picture of him.
Yeah.
If you try to know.
That name is racially ambiguous.
Yeah, so you wouldn't think of him.
Hey, that's Hank Willis over there.
That looks like a damn Jerome.
You act like a Jerome Taylor over there right there.
Yeah.
But anyway.
But he's actually the artist who came up with the Embrace, the sculpture that's supposed to emulate Dr. Martin Luther King with his wife Hugging after he won the Nobel Prize.
Correct King when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
It's supposed to emulate this picture.
Replicate.
Yeah, it's supposed to replicate this.
Represent.
Yes.
That's what the whole point of this sculpture is supposed to represent.
They paid this black guy $10 million, right?
$10 million.
Now, let me show you the first image of this monstrosity.
What does that look like to y'all?
That don't look like the embrace.
That looks like the hand job to me.
A hand job.
You know what that actually looks like?
It looks like a dead body wrapped in a blanket and they're holding it up for a sacrifice.
Yeah.
Hey, what's his name, Willis?
Hank Willis.
Hey, Hank Willis, where you get your inspiration from?
Jeffrey Duma?
This looks like body parts.
That looks like a dead person wrapped in a blanket and Jeffrey sitting a dumping in the ocean or something.
$10 million.
You could have gave me $50.
I could have did better now.
$10 million.
Yeah.
Man, this don't make no sense.
Let's go to the next image.
You know what that looks like to me?
That looks like some shoulders without a head right at the top.
And he's pushing his...
You got two options.
Somebody's got their head chopped off and he's actually holding his own head.
Yeah, it looks like he's trying to put somebody's head down.
Or somebody's trying to get sucked off.
You're pushing the head down to get sucked off.
Yeah.
Man, what the hell is that?
You know what?
Head Chopped Off Statues00:00:46
$10 million?
You know what?
When people's walking down the street, when they see a statue, they'll be like, yeah, that's Martin Luther King.
That's Coretta King, right?
That's when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yeah, people are walking down the street.
I think this is in Boston.
They're walking down the street and they're like, wait a minute, what the...
Hey, honey, what the hell is that?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, a sculpture is supposed to speak for itself.
When I look at this sculpture, I'm confused.
I'm baffled.
I feel like I just watched Joe Biden give a speech or something.
Yeah, I'm perplexed.
$10 million?
I'm bewildered.
I wonder how much.
I don't think he spent $10 million.
I think he spent maybe $50,000 and he kept the other.