Head of MLK Memorial Unhappy With Quote Change

Just chop it all out and drill in a plaque that reads "Whatever".

The MLK Memorial: A great heaving boulder of bickering and angst.

Easy fix: add "..." after Justice, cover up "and", and add "..." in its place.  Then at the head, add the all-important "If" clause which qualifies the current quote.

I may be stupid, but why bother trying to match the granite? Being close but not quite always looks bad. I'd say put in something completely different, like black marble or bronze. Something that will complement. Trying to match it will look like when someone tries to paint over graffiti on the side of a building.

 Why don't they just shave an inch off the entire side.  I'd think that would be far less visually jarring than a granite almostmatch or altering than gluing on a black marble/bronze panel.

They may want to fix all of the bad quotes while they are at it.

How about: "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

Which was carved: I'm interested in power

How about: "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Which was carved: I want to be white.

LOL

How does one paraphrase a quote, and out of context, and do so in a major location like that?  What a catastrophe.

You mean like this?

http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/7... 

Some of our best monuments have mis-matched granite. Just ask the Washington Monument...

That awesome moment when you see the look on a tourist's face (particularly one in your own family) after you tell them that the Washington Monument is discolored because of "The Great DC Flood of 1826"

Nah, I tell them aliens used laser beams to knock it down. After we killed them off we had it rebuilt with pieces of their mothership.

Johnson said the change threatens the monument’s design and structure.

Says the guy who carelessly edited a quote and had it inscribed in f**king GRANITE without running it by the right people, inadvertently changing the meaning of said quote, the tone of the entire memorial, and created a ridiculous controversy which completely stole the spotlight for the entire first year of the memorial's existence. Harry Johnson is the reason generations people will be telling tourists: "did you know they f**ked up the first quote, that's why you see that line around the rock there..." 

I guess foundation money guys have to have massive balls, both to ask for money all day, and to pretend that the fix for their mistake is the problem, as opposed to the mistake itself. They have to fix it Harry- you f**ked it up man.

"Head of MLK Memorial" - I'd be unhappy too with a big scowl on my face for generations to see.

Also, he should get that scoliosis checked out.

I dunno.. that's the look on every drum major I've ever seen.

Head of MLK 
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I have a dream that one day all of God's granite, black granite and white granite, red granite and pink granite, will be able to join together on the same monument and we can sing in the words of the old spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last from this stupid f**king nontroversy!

But I've been to the mountaintop ... and it was only one kind of granite.

Check out the Post's Editorial today on this topic, as they call out the irony of Mr. Johnson's current complaint given the fact that he was the one that edited out 37 of the 47 words in the original quote (which the original plans had included the full quote) without telling anyone; and that's how we got here in the first place.

So let Harry pay for it out of pocket. If he needs some extra cash, plenty of porn companies would hire him with a name like that.

Plenty of porn companies would hire him with a name like that.

In the '70s maybe. Good luck trying to find any hairy johnsons in today's industry.

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I blame the younger people with their hippety-hop music and their Snoopy Poop Dog and their Enema Man and their depilatories. Also 9/11.

I hear he just signed a deal to pronote Nads.

Never an IG arround when you need one.

I like how the organization still emailed me for money long after the project was completed, probably to sell excess premium items and put the money back into the fraternity that started the Foundation.

The foundation will have to pay for the upkeep of the memorial (graffiti abatement, cleaning, patchwork to physical damage) so they will need a continuous cash flow for NPS fees. At the office we provide a variety of management services and one of our clients is a memorial and those things are expensive to keep in good order.  Graffiti abatement is a large problem and the park service does a good job at cleaning it up ASAP for the memorials in their care but there is a fee for service.  Mr. Johnson is probably more ticked that he will have to pay to have his mistake fixed out of the  foundation. This will not make donors too pleased. 

graffiti abatement?

I think you mean enjoying the diversity of expressions made by 'Street Artists". 

Well, the donors should have thought of that before they hired a total dick for a CEO. I mean, his name pretty much spells it out for you.

All jokes aside, you are absolutely correct. This is management companies get this kind of work when the board of this foundation realizes that this guy is not good for PR therefore fundraising they will ditch him for a firm that will manage the memorial. These egotistical chuckleheads use the memorial as an extension of themselves rather than honoring the intended person or group.

About the best you can say for this guy is that he probably didn't rape any teenage boys in the lockerroom shower. Probably.

I think Johnson is just afraid that the new granite, if it doesn't match the old granite perfectly, will just serve to perpetually highlight the mistake that he made in approving the original quote.  So I don't blame him for objecting.  On the other hand, the quote, as it is engraved now, threatens the integrity of the memorial more than an unmatched piece of granite would. 

Plus we can always come up with some mumbo-jumbo BS after the fact about how the mismatched granite symbolizes the complexity of MLK's soul.

I think the post-modern historian speak is "complicates the standard King narrative."

We're all afraid of new granite at first, but once you work it, it will fit right in.

"Harry E. Johnson"

*Giggle*

Maybe you shouldn't have screwed it up in the first place then, fella...

bingo

Seriously. This is what happens when you fire all the editors to "save money." What's the price quote on fixing this thing anyway?

$51 million and the work will take several years, during which the memorial will be closed to the public.

Shouldn't they appoint a blue ribbon panel and send them on a fact-finding mission to London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, and Hong Kong to see how those jurisdictions deal with memorial engraving f**kups?