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Interior Sec. Orders Quote on MLK Memorial Be Changed Following Complaints

Interior Secretary Orders Quote on MLK Memorial Changed Following Complaints

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has ordered a disputed inscription on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C. be changed. It reads, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.’’ (Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has ordered an inscription carved into the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington be changed, after complaints that the quote does not accurately reflect the civil rights leader’s words.

The inscription, “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness,” paraphrases a sermon King delivered in 1968, two months before he was assassinated:

“If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter.”

Poet Maya Angelou was one of the leading critics of the inscription when the memorial was dedicated last year. As The Blaze previously reported, Angelou slammed the quote, saying it makes King look like “an arrogant twit” outside its proper context.

According to the Washington Post, Salazar has given the National Park Service 30 days to come up with a more accurate alternative.

“This is important because Dr. King and his presence on the Mall is a forever presence for the United States of America, and we have to make sure that we get it right,” Salazar told the Post.

Ed Jackson Jr., the executive architect of the $120 million project, previously said King’s words were shortened due to space constraints.

He said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press Friday that the cost to make changes to the inscription will be assessed but none of the existing stone work will be removed.

“A few very carefully selected words will be added to the existing phrase; that will further amplify his statement about his role in America during the mid-20th century as a leader, a social advocate, a messenger, a voice of the people … for freedom, justice, hope and peace,” Jackson said.

Harry Johnson, president of the King Memorial Foundation, told the AP it wasn’t yet clear what the alternatives might be. The group would look at all the ways a change could be made, he said.

The ongoing inscription dust-up is just one of the controversies that’s surrounded the King memorial. Others have complained that its sculptor Lei Yixin is Chinese, not American, and have charged that King’s stern-looking facial expression does not portray his peaceful nature.

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  • jdjusa
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:57am

    We are going down a slippery slope if this CHANGE is approved. Can you imagine which inscriptions on other national monuments would be opened to CHANGE? I HOPE this CHANGE stops soon and we return to majority rule.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:48am

    Made in China. Don’t be surprise if start falling apart. How come was builded by an union company? A American icon, made in China. A place who doesnt believe in freedom.

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    • avgconservative
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:56am

      How come you, “no speaka de English” to well?

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    • glassbeadlady
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:14am

      Don’t understand why this could not be made by an American artist.

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    • Timsincali
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:31am

      Mike King Jr. was an extremely flawed man. What is worse though,… because of course we are all flawed, is that he was a communist subversive who cavorted with many radical commies / progressive POS’s of the day. I mean “The REV-erend” Hesse Hackson was one of Mike’s buddies; what does that say? So, let’s call a….. well PC prohibits me from going further. Suffice to say that PC is what prompted a memorial be built and placed in our nations capital. Sad. Just like every major city that has a substantial population of folks who worship Mike King Jr. , it will also have a Mike King Jr. Blvd. Oh BTW… do not go to these streets at night, or day for that matter; those places are very dangerous.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:15pm

      Tim,,,you are a racist…go ahead and admit it. take off your hood and show the world your face.

      This comment is on the BLAZE.. It shows that Glenn Beck is a racist since he wons the BLAZE. Isnt that the standard you set for Ron Paul Glenn?

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    • auntbea
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:37pm

      Look at the statue. He looks like a Communist, not MLK. It’s awful, and it’s sad.

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    • drago
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:43pm

      @baddoggy aka encinom
      You’re an idiot, and you prove it evertime you post on here…….

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    • Bulldog2036
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:15pm

      What difference does it make….quit idolizing, he was just a man. And a cheating fornicator at that. HYPOCRITE.

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    • db321
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:17pm

      Another example of the “Reverse Midas Touch” of Obama and his Administration. Anything he touches is a disaster.

      “He who think they are wise becomes a fool” – should be carved into Obama’s Statue.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:00pm

      The quote should probably be changed to “Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are @sshats and don’t speak for me”….

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:34pm

      As a black woman, this whole “monument” to the great black leader of the civil rights movement bothers me. What in the world possessed “them”(including his own family) to have this monument carved in White. How embarrassing it must be for the great black hope to forever be portrayed in “white-face.”

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    • for-what-its-worth
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:41pm

      @ GLASSBEADLADY
      Don’t understand why this could not be made by an American artist.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Because we have to spread the wealth to everyone…where have you been?

      (end sarcasm)

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:27pm

      By the time Obama’s people get through filling, sanding and chiseling…. the statue will look just like Obama.

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    • LinkedIn G
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:40pm

      By the time the libbytards are through … all of history will be changed to suit their agenda. They even say ” Martin Luther King Jr. would agree with our bill “. Instead of actually benefitting or using his exact words in context … they twist and turn everything around to suit thmselves. I kinda feel sorry for him sometimes because his name is being used for ill gotten gains. Read his words … judge him by his actions. Don’t just USE him for your own personal gain. I wish his legacy would be a more honest and loving approach by people claiming to follow his lifes work.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:44pm

      Perhaps we shall go back to 1814, Francis Scott Key penned the words to what would become our national anthem. In the fourth stanza, he wrote, “And this be our motto: in God is our Trust; and the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

      Why stop at Martin Luther King and the monument? Should we change the currency so not to stray from the original phrase, In God is our Trust?

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 15, 2012 at 7:00am

      @baddoggy… No, it is NOT the standard.
      Dr PauI had the offensive material in the ARTICLES he published.
      TheBlaze does NOT. Glenn has no control over what YOU post as a RESPONSE to the articles.
      Do you want TheBlaze to censor all posts? Disallow posts? Or is it that you just want everyone to agree with YOU?
      If Ron PauI had received letters in response to his articles, and those responses contained the offensive material, then nobody would ever have questioned him on it. But, when you put your name on something, you are responsible for its content. He made the profit from it. He gained the notoriety from it. He must also be accountable for its content.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:59am

      @avgconservative

      Why are you such a jerk? That was a rude and thoroughly un-American thing to say to NEAF. Douche in private from now on, would you please?

      Great point NEAF.

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    • Eyembetternu
      Posted on January 15, 2012 at 12:49pm

      Hey dim bulbs, this mess WAS designed by Americans. It takes all of 30 seconds to check that out. Please try to make informed comments rather than inane blather.

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    • BrownWaterVet
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:02am

      I am confused as to how/why they can change the inscription on this monument, but are unable to accomplish it on the WWII monument.

      Semper Fortis

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  • The_Jerk
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:36am

    Why is there a statue on the National Mall honoring a man elected to nothing… a man closely associated with communists of his time, Stanley David Levison and Jack O’Dell,… and a man whose records are sealed until 2027?
    Shouldn’t we have waited until we had the complete history?

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    • burntpizza
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:09am

      You’re not seriously questioning the reason for this statue are you? Appease the blacks?!?! It won‘t be long and you’ll see obama at Mt. Rushmore.

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    • SANE_I think
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:26pm

      I have to admit, I am in total agreement with his statement that men should be judged by the “content of their character” . This, I think, would be the “ ” to use as all mankind can relate to it. At least civilized men. JMHO

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    • countrygirl
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I live 25 miles from Mt. Rushmore. Over my cold, dead, bullet-ridden body.

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    • CEM
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:30pm

      Well, you needn’t be an elected official to be honored. That said, I think the whole MLK mystique is over-done. He had his good works, but had enough character flaws that I don’t think he deserves a federal holiday. Communist associations during the height of our Cold War with the Soviet Union, frequent adulterer (bad for anyone, but especially low for a member of the clergy), and plagarism on his doctoral thesis (which can get you kicked out of college, not earn you a degree). The holiday and the memorial for MLK are just more by-products of affirmative action.

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    • noczars
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:18pm

      @JERK= As I have said before on other sites and The Blaze. Your name is VERY appropriate. Stop trying to make The Blaze look bad.

      Report Post » noczars  
  • Servant Of YHVH
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:34am

    I just want to know why they misused OUR money to build this thing anyways.

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    • bigfatslob
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:07am

      Placating the pigmented

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:18pm

      Another racist comment…Therefore Glenn Beck is a racist by association…He owns the BLAZE and I see these racist comments. Own it Glenn…Just like you say Ron Paul is a racist for his newsletters….You own these clowns too. Fair enough Glenn?

      Report Post » Baddoggy  
    • Ditto Head
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:02pm

      @Doggy:

      *YAWN*

      Report Post » Ditto Head  
    • JawaJam
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 7:18pm

      I think it is funny that people think Glenn reads and approves each post. Poor doggy when will you learn.

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  • JohnTwoFeathers
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:29am

    He had a dream and it wasn’t the Santoros.

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  • freeweever
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:26am

    Maya Angelou is the only arrogant twit in the house. Ego’s have become way too large in this country and some like maya should just shut up and keel her social justice marxist statements off public property.

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  • mule creek ridge
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:23am

    The only reason to do the change now is political gold star for that Silly Ole Barry in the POTUS position.

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:35pm

      Michell said we needed to change history as it was written. I am surprised they haven’t removed all the monuments that represent our country. Seeing anything american must just turn their stomachs.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:17am

    The new inscriptionn should read…’.I was a communist and a whore-monger’.

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  • webwhitehouse.com
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:12am

    Dunno who started this project but it is a complete failure from the get go. Everything about it is wrong not to mention $120 million? Are u kidding me?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:15am

      Easy way to understand why the mistake was made – a sculpture from Communist China made it with part of the Obama stimulus funds; it was to the advantage of Obama to do anything to distort the image and message of MLK.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:33am

      “Poet Maya Angelou was one of the leading critics of the inscription when the memorial was dedicated last year. As The Blaze previously reported, Angelou slammed the quote, saying it makes King look like “an arrogant twit” outside its proper context.”

      Well, Maya, if the shoe fits wear it. By the way, if she wants it changed, let her pay for it. Maya still has that welfare mentality that says money is never an object if you can force someone else to pay.

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:08am

    I agree with LYNNISSMART. With todays‘ technology we can’t figure out how to sand/fill/remove what’s there and repalce with the entire quote? there’s enough room. What’s on the other side of the statue? And the back? More misquotes? Acutally, I never heard that one Where’s I HAVE A DREAM? Wierd…

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:06am

    This tacky Chinese statue will be part of obama’s legacy of destruction – but, perhaps when obama is removed from office, this monstrosity will also be removed and replaced with a proper memorial.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:04am

    Good Grief. will the race thing ever end? will the slave talk ever end? will the, it’s the white mans faught ever end? are the guilty white liberals happy now that we have the first black potus? so many questions and we have so little time. once again we are on the edge of destruction. Now BO has added class warfare to the list. the clouds of war are gathering.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:20am

      It is the Marxist way. Class warfare, redistribution of wealth, bringing down national pride, race, etc. The goal of a Marxist is simple – take down the system – bring it back communist.
      BHO still has a lot of people fooled (in large part in thanks to the State media). Most of the fooled are younger. They were taught socialist propaganda in school. This and lack of life experiences make them easy targets to use for his agenda.

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    • hogtrashhd
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:27am

      nope..too much money in race mongering… and blacks can never be content with anything… forget about all their whining and perpetual outrage.. they’ve been bred to complain.. they want to white.. and are pi$$ed that they’re black.. they hate themselves….

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    • gwssacredcause
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:08am

      The liberals will never be happy even if only liberals existed in their fantasy perfect world they would still be angry at something or someone, it is who they are. As for the “first black president” the liberals have more trouble with racism than anyone and it is another area in which their intelligence is questionable. According to the liberals William Clinton was our first “black president” now Obama is our first “black president” at least in Obama’s case they have it half right.

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:28pm

      Impeach is right. Many young people are falling for the “GREAT LIE” which is communism.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:58am

    Good news! They’re also going to correct the Reagan statue at his airport to put his left hand behind his back with his fingers crossed to commemorate his most significant action in office.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZfnOJd_FmA.

    your sensei  
    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:47am

      His right hand should be flipping the bird to all Liberals, Marxists, Progressives, Anarchists, Reparationists, Socialists, DEMOCRATS ALL.

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    • Firefighter 538
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:13am

      His right hand should begiving the “Bird” to SENSEI

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    • bigfatslob
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:15am

      What a pile of lef ti$t crapola. Its a good thing tro ll$ can post links like this so we know who they are.

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    • Liberalismsamentaldisorder
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:19am

      I never understood the point of such an idiotic troll. There’s a real misquote on a statue that our foolish government spent 120 MILLION on, and you decide to take unclever swipe at Ronald Reagan? Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:02pm

      LIBERALISMISOURSAVINGRACE . . .Hey, did you hear that Obama spent $200 million per day to go to India? Did you know he threw a secret party at the White House that they invited the press to and posted pictures on Flicker and put up videos on on the White house website? Oh, yeah, huge cover up.

      Come back when you have a leg to stand on, Fox Freak.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on January 15, 2012 at 11:35am

      I KNOW I KNOW . . .It hurts to see God . . . sorry, Reagan . . . lie to your face. But don’t worry, Ed Meece looked into it and assures us that this was the ONLY time RR lied, ever, in his whole life. If only Ronnie – Dreamboat Ronnie – hadn’t been so insistent, so blatant in his deception.

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  • AB5r
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:57am

    The idiotic statue actually still contains enough stone for someone to start fresh and do the whole thing right. It isn’t just the quotes that are wrong, the crossed arms, the facial expression is too stern, the body coming out of the large rock, all of it is just a shame.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:06am

      I agree, this is poorly done. It would have been better to have him at a podium, giving a rousing speech. Form is the visible shape of content – and this statue misses the content of MLK.

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:07am

      just get it over and carve him into mt. rushmore or is that reserved for BO.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:17am

      Clouds needs to get over it, maybe they should carve your head coming out of his butt.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:33am

      Clouds
      Did you mean Barry’s upthrust chin pose, on Mt Slushfund??

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:15pm

      South Dakota will never accept Obama in the Black Hills.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:36pm

      Once America is Islamized they will blow up the filthy infidel statues at Mt. Rushmore just like they did the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

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  • Tomfang
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:55am

    I’m sure we could find enough Americans to foot the bill for a new one to be made in America , with his BEST quote, “Judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin”

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    • LibzLie
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:16am

      That is not what the libs want to hear. The truth hurts and they can’t handle the truth.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:43am

      High-Five for your statement!

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:58am

      How about, “OBJECTS APPEAR LARGER THAN ACTUAL SIZE”?

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    • Annika2011
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:07pm

      Thanks for the chuckle CHIPS1.
      Really did lol. Good one.

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:48am

    Talk about hype. The movement that MLK is so often tied to was well on its way when he jumped onboard and rode it into history. He was nothing until he was shot and then he became a martyr. Talk about your revisionist history.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:00am

      He had his faults like any man. But his message “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” is a good one.
      BHO would have us (and had many) vote for him because of his color, not his character. He and MO play the race card all the time. We are past that as a country. We the People put him in, and We the People will see King’s dream come true – we judge BHO to be a dictator bent on destroying this country.

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  • Shawnkk
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:47am

    Are they going to take it back to Wal Mart and get another one?

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:55am

      China.

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    • Annette
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:05am

      He should not be misquoted…I agree and as for all of you making comments about he was nothing-give me a break. I’m sure we have revised some parts of his history becasue we do it for everything else, but he was a good man with legitimate issues to protest who made a difference.

      What has happened to the black community since MLK is a shame and he is probably rolling over in his grave.

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:09am

      @Shawnkk
      “Are they going to take it back to Wal Mart and get another one?”
      @cloudsofwar
      “China.”

      Is there a difference?

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    • SANE_I think
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:13pm

      They said the artist was Chineese, I dont think it was “made in China” could be wrong?

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  • Shawnkk
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:46am

    As long as they are going to fix (it). Why not put his real name on it? His legal name. Sorry but after doing my research on this man I can’t see why someone looks up to him. Yes he was better than JJ or Al but nothing to look up to. Funny how people want to rewrite history or leave the bad parts out.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:51am

      Really. I bet BHO and MO hate the “content of character” quote.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:36am

      They are from chicago, they have never heard of content of character.

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  • virgie morgan
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:44am

    Maybe they should just add the words,“Made in China”..that would explain it all. Afterall, this is the typical cheap Chinese c.rap you get from them.

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  • let us prey
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:43am

    Salazar is both giant douche and terd sandwich.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:41am

    MLK is a National treasure. This pales in comparison to how Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have taken his words of FREEDOM and changed them to give me, give me, give me,,,They want the Black people of America enslaved to welfare and Government.

    If you want to change something, change the idiot black leaders that have taken us down the road to serfdom…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:18am

      The RON PAUL Newsletters.

      The December 1990 newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as “a world-class adulterer” who “seduced underage girls and boys” and “replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”

      A February 1991 newsletter attacks “The X-Rated Martin Luther King.”

      An October 1990 edition of the Political Report ridicules black activists, led by Al Sharpton, for demonstrating at the Statue of Liberty in favor of renaming New York City after Martin Luther King. The newsletter suggests that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,”and “Lazyopolis ” would be better alternatives—and says, “Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.”

      Ron Paul’s name is on it…. Ron Paul owns it.

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    • Publius Novus
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:45am

      Agreed! Nothing like MLK, they’ve taken his legacy & corrupted it…Jackson, Sharpton & E Holder etc!

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:24am

      Ron Paul would not have voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the landmark piece of legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women. And the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his son Rand Paul took heat for stating his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act during his run for Kentucky’s state senate. Rand backtracked on his comments and eventually issued an apology, and was later elected a state senator.

      And what about a medal for poor old Rosa Parks. Ron Paul said no, but he‘d chip in a hundred bucks because she’s one of his heroes like MLK (turn on laugh track). Paul DOES like the Boy Scout coins he backed though. In other words, “Anything we like is constitutional. Anything we don’t like is unconstitutional. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it’s actually mentioned in the constitution.”

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:11pm

      Excuse me idiot. Ron Paul would have wanted the HEARTS to be changed about segregation, not to make a law to force people to not discriminate.You think forcing someone to not discriminate with a law stops it? You are a Liberal unthinking t@rd!

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:15pm

      A Racist Dr.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4
      The proof finally comes out.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Baddoggy
      Its Yepimatroll not “idiot” kool it on the names, please

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:32pm

      My apologies to idiots….

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:37pm

      BADDOGGY. You are the epitomy of the average Ron Paul supporter. When taken off of message/talking points… you have no idea how to interact with dissenting opinion other than call people idiots, morons or whatever the juvenile term for the day may be. In reality, I have no problem with it… but you seem to be offending RECOVERINGNEOCON. He must be one of those squeamish pacifist types we hear and read about.

      RECOVERING…… BOO! Scared you huh? I don‘t know what your fascination with Newt Gingrich is but he’s ahead of Ron Paul in SC as far as I can see? You feel threatened by him somehow?

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  • lynnissmart
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:39am

    Probably the administration behind this, as Michelle said, “Barack knows we are going to have to change history”…..the King family should demand that the exact quote be inscripted…..(space constraints, bull) how about using smaller letters???? Oh, but nobody thought of that???? What pieces of crap!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:49am

      You would have thought that if they were going to change his words they would have run it by the family … I agree this smells of the changing of history to suit their agenda … like everything else the Obama administration does.

      “Half of writing history is hiding the truth”

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    • cloudsofwar
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:09am

      @ catb… as mochelle said we have to change our History.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:30am

      MO said that BHO knew we were “going to have to change history” Here ya go, a statue with MLK looking like a dictator, without the content of character quote – by far and above his most important.

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  • anOpinion
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:38am

    The whole thing is a disaster, it was made in China, the monument makes him look 1/2 chinese, and the quote is wrong. They should scrap it and have some black American artists create a proper one.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:44am

      DONE! Please give me your address…we will send you the bill.

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    • AB5r
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:55am

      Even the pose is wrong with the arms crossed, the whole statue is a disaster. And it was a whole committee of people who studied it and came up with this. Whatever one thinks of King the statue does not do him or the country any service. Some group should raise money to replace it.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:38am

    Made in China

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:35am

    Boy oh boy, you can’t argue with Maya Angelou can you? How much will this cost? Let her foot the bill.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:43am

      Yep…MLK said to look at the charachter of a MAN…I guess she took that as women being invisible to scrutiny…

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 14, 2012 at 11:01am

      I‘m sure she’s already got a spot picked out for her own memorial on the mall. Let‘s hope she picks her own quote so Beyonce or somebody doesn’t make us spend money on changing it.

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