By Courtland Milloy, Published: August 23

Let’s face it: There really is something peculiar about having an artist from communist China sculpt the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial statue. And, yes, it would have been fantastic had an African American sculptor been chosen instead.

Obama to Dedicate Oriental Looking MLK Statue Made in China

Looking eerily similar to that of a black Asian dictator, a statue has been sculpted to honor Martin Luther Kings Jr. Sadly, the group in charge of finding an artist could not find a reputable black artist in America to create the statue. Why else would it be sculpted in China by the same artist who is renowned for his many sculptures and busts glorifying Mao Zedong. You remember him right? He is the communist dictator responsible for murderering 70 million of his own innocent Chinese subjects. A man who contradicted the philosophy civil rights that MLK gave his very life for.
It strikes me odd that a statue being dedicated on the 48th anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech, was not sculpted in a way to honor his speech. Instead the artist, Lei Yixin, posed MLK in a defiant stance with his arms crossed as if the artist had Malcom X in mind when he sculpted it. There are many things about the way this statue came to be created that should make the black community angry. For one, the stone used for it was quarried by slave laborers making less than $2.00 a day. Then there is the fact that China has a zero tolerance for racial diversity. Citizenship for immigrants is literally based on their race.