Maya Angelou Says, The MLK Memorial Will Be "arrogant"
Poet and author Maya Angelou, said recently unveiled a monument to civil rights Martin Luther King Jr. is listed with a quote taken out of context that make the priest seem "arrogant".
I was a drum major for justice, peace and justice, the inscription on the statue 30 feet high of King Drive.
"This quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit," Maya Angelou told The Washington Post Gene Weingarten, and added that she believes it should be changed. "He was anything but. It was too deep of a man with four-letter word to use. "
The quote is from a sermon King gave shortly before his death, when he imagines what it would sound his own praises.
I was a drum major for justice, peace and justice, the inscription on the statue 30 feet high of King Drive.
"This quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit," Maya Angelou told The Washington Post Gene Weingarten, and added that she believes it should be changed. "He was anything but. It was too deep of a man with four-letter word to use. "
The quote is from a sermon King gave shortly before his death, when he imagines what it would sound his own praises.
"If you want to say I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice," said King. "To say I was a drum major for peace. I a drum major for justice. And all the other superficial things will not matter. "
Angelou, who read a poem by the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, Weingarten said that the take-off "if the expression" at the beginning of the quote makes it sound pleased the king, as if they were praising themselves for no reason.
Angelou has been a member of a committee of historians who helped elect the inscriptions, and chief architect of the monument, Ed Jackson Jr., said she did not participate in any of these meetings. But it also appears that historians have chosen the full quote, not the officials shortened the final monument chosen because of lack of space.
Angelou, who read a poem by the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, Weingarten said that the take-off "if the expression" at the beginning of the quote makes it sound pleased the king, as if they were praising themselves for no reason.
Angelou has been a member of a committee of historians who helped elect the inscriptions, and chief architect of the monument, Ed Jackson Jr., said she did not participate in any of these meetings. But it also appears that historians have chosen the full quote, not the officials shortened the final monument chosen because of lack of space.
The Washington Post Rachel Manteuffel Angelou broader criticism, noting that the original sermon King was in fact "the desire of the human spirit to be great without a great thing and difficult. To be on the front of the pack, draw all the attention. It makes no sense, said the king. "King admits in the sermon he is also subject to this weakness as everyone else, but I hope he will remember the struggle for worthy causes and helping others, not to seek attention. The quote shortened communicate any of this context for interpretation.
Angelou is not the only one who found fault with the four acres, $ 120 million memorial, which sits on the National Mall monuments, next to Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Most of the criticism centers around the statue of the king, which was designed by the controversial Chinese artist and built by Chinese workers. (According to critics, an African-American artist to be selected.)
Angelou is not the only one who found fault with the four acres, $ 120 million memorial, which sits on the National Mall monuments, next to Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Most of the criticism centers around the statue of the king, which was designed by the controversial Chinese artist and built by Chinese workers. (According to critics, an African-American artist to be selected.)
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer objects to the statue of 30 meters high, was carved by Lei Yixin, a Chinese artist, who also carved monuments of Chairman Mao. "His flat, rigid, King of socialist realism do not do justice to the very subtle, creative, the human soul of his subject," said Krauthammer, adding that he still loved the memorial.
New York Times, Edward Rothstein writes that the set and the selection of quotations from the statue turns to "the Minister, as part of a warrior or ruler."
"Isolation lot of other objects from above, its enormity and the position of Dr. King, all conspire to make it look like an authority figure, emerging full development of the area carved into the rock, in harmony with the old forces of nature , sought to assert his authority as their own, "wrote Judge Rothstein.
New York Times, Edward Rothstein writes that the set and the selection of quotations from the statue turns to "the Minister, as part of a warrior or ruler."
"Isolation lot of other objects from above, its enormity and the position of Dr. King, all conspire to make it look like an authority figure, emerging full development of the area carved into the rock, in harmony with the old forces of nature , sought to assert his authority as their own, "wrote Judge Rothstein.
The Economist writes that it is disappointing "that a man who fought so uncompromising, bold and beautiful for the equality of all things were created to worship an idol as impressive, more mountain than man."
"The image we have chosen is that, in our opinion, presents Dr. King as a philosopher of ideas, someone who was strong in his conviction that America stands for and in America must go," said the architect, Michael Jackson at the root. "The goal is not reached, but we have a monument that allows us to defend his message, so do not forget to pick up where you left off trying to make the world a better place."
"The image we have chosen is that, in our opinion, presents Dr. King as a philosopher of ideas, someone who was strong in his conviction that America stands for and in America must go," said the architect, Michael Jackson at the root. "The goal is not reached, but we have a monument that allows us to defend his message, so do not forget to pick up where you left off trying to make the world a better place."
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