The massive bronze piece, titled “The Embrace,” features two sets of arms holding each other, an artistic interpretation of the classic photo of Coretta and hubby Martin Luther King Jr. hugging aft…
“The mainstream media … was reporting on it like it was all beautiful, ’cause they were told they had to say that,” Seneca Scott, Coretta’s cousin, told The Post by phone Sunday, referring to the new artwork in The Boston Commons.
“If you had showed that statute to anyone in the ’hood, they’d have been like, ‘No, absolutely not.’ “ Seneca told The Post that “woke” culture allowed the expensive abstract experiment to come to fruition. Martin Luther King III approved the piece, which was designed by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas for the organization Embrace Boston.said on its online site.
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