Melt that bronze down and try again… maybe with the peoples’ input this time.

Mock some designs. Get the people invested in it too!

Hell, it’s probably some of their money in that $10m being spent anyways. Lol

It’s like the people in charge said “how can we line our pockets without making it seem like we’re stealing?”

The answer is corruption and pocketing the funds by money laundering through an ugly statue that “costs” 10mil

Edit: I hope this monstrosity wasn’t made with tax payer funds

Ohh look, some one else copying the touch grass thing. So exciting!!!

Not an original thought in this place. Cheese and rice.

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He isn’t wrong. There’s an entire Netflix docu on it

People just mad because they know they paid 10 million for it and they gotta like it now

Yes? Because it literally states it’s the plaque on the state of liberty. And the obelisk is because it’s meant to copy the Egyptians in making something timeless. Why are you stupid

10 million TEN

THEY SPENT HOW MUCH ON THIS SHIT?

These are good examples because those things also look like hands holding a giant turd or horse penis.

Art is not sacrosanct and neither are artists. Art can be bad. It can resemble things its not supposed to and can have unintended interpretations. Art can be amazing, it can also be trash.

This is a $10 million dollar piece of art that many feel resembles hands holding a turd. That POV has garnered national attention because that POV is not uncommon.

Art can be trash. That's statue is trash.

It’s “Art” is too commonly used these days, IMO

However, the Statue of Liberty isn’t a real person.

The Washington monument doesn’t have human features and isn’t meant to look like a person, but a tribute. Not sure why I would think he is a pretty cool President seeing as I’ve never personally met the guy tho…

Point is, this cost $10 million dollars to make.

How much of that is in raw bronze? How much to transport it to artist and to display location?

How much did it cost to pay for the building it was housed in before being delivered?

Etc, etc…

Then let’s figure out why this thing cost $10m dollars.

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Moreover, how much would you pay to see this statute if it wasn’t displayed in public?

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If you saw the Statue of Liberty would you think "welcome immigrants"? If you saw the Washington Monument, would you think "George Washington was a pretty cool president"?

It's art. You can enjoy it for the art itself and you can enjoy it for the story it tells. It's up to you, not the artist.

Is the quoted cousin the same Seneca Scott that ran for Oakland mayor this year? If so, that guy is a character; has a gun charge for chasing down two crackheads stealing his water heater, amongst other colorful history.

Art has been used to funnel and wash money for decades. The city paid 10 million dollars for that "statue", go look who got those 10 million and look where that money will end up. They will end up donating a large portion of it to people and NGOs close to Democrats. Using tax payer money to directly fund partisan orgs and individuals.

Not really. The Post is using it for clickbait and so are you. There’s much better quotes from this distant cousin in the article btw.

Some are just more woke to the woke word.

Hopefully we woke up from all this tho…

I guess leaving the /s is important. Lol

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It’s a quote from the article

the fuck is this title? how is this a “woke” statue. so sick of hearing this stupid buzz word

Oh they used the word "woke" in the title so it must be true

“You’re spending $10 million on a bronze statue without heads on it? Man, it’s a joke.” Best comment about this statue by a lot so far i say

“Art”

Now go get it appraised so it can be “donated” for a trillion billion tree fifty’s.

Idiots.

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For the down voters… if you walked past this piece of bronze hunk of metal, would you think MLK?

Be honest with yourself.

I live in Somerville with kids. I don't see any glaring deficiencies with the schools.

School districts are not the only things that draw people to a city

I've had good experiences at Hynes, which has locations in Brookline and Roslindale.

Nah, the wealthy parents end up leaving Boston because the lottery is fairly nepotism proof. The BPS lottery is frankly too complicated and confusing to be easily gamed -- I don't even think the people running it even understand how it works. If it were that easy to game, the rich parents would have had it locked up decades ago.

There was a huge dust-up recently about exam school seats, because they changed the rules to give seats to a more geographically diverse set of students. This resulted in a lot of angry upper-class parents, because (surprise surprise) those upper-class neighborhoods had previously been overrepresented in exam school admissions.