The Megyn Kelly Show slammed the new Boston statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr. for having a pornographic appearance, suggesting woke narratives sweeping the country have caused people to lose the “capacity to create public beauty.”
The statue, called The Embrace, was unveiled on Friday on Boston Common, the place where King gave a speech in April 1965. The 22-foot-tall bronze statue was crafted by sculptor Hank Willis Thomas and inspired by a photograph of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, hugging after they learned the civil rights leader had won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
“What it looks like, I’m just going to say it, is a giant penis being held by two hands,” Kelly said in reaction to photos of the statue. “I’m sorry, it does!”
Kelly’s guests, Charles C.W. Cooke and Rich Lowry, laughed in agreement but highlighted a deeper concern.
“The deeper story here is we’ve lost the capacity to create public beauty. There is no piece of public art in the last 50 years that has been beautiful or uplifting,” Lowry said. “It’s amazing we just can’t create a finely crafted, uplifting statue of this man.”
“It’s just amazing. Michelangelo could do the David [statue] 500 years ago,” Lowry added. “And with all sorts of technical advance and what have you, that’s all we can do. There was one unveiled in D.C., the national monument that is less vulgar but is equally ugly of MLK.”
Cooke also noted that people travel all over the world to see beautiful works of art.
“I don’t think it’s true that every single person sees it differently. And I don’t think it’s true that this is somehow informed by the world in which we live,” Cooke said. “I think it’s horrible, and I think we can all see it’s horrible.”
The statue has drawn flak and mockery across social media.
Blogger Steven Hayward reacted to the statue’s unveiling with a call for the “complete and total shutdown of modern art until we can figure out what the hell is going on.”
Several have questioned why only the arms were depicted, asking to be shown “a white man that was honored with a statue of only two of his limbs.”
Media personality Jesse Kelly tweeted: “In all seriousness, I don’t mean to mock the MLK sculpture. Every man wants to be remembered this way.”
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While speaking on Fox & Friends on Monday, King’s niece, Alveda King, called the statue “a little weird.”
