The Embrace sculpture honors MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s legacy of love in Boston

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..."But Martin Luther King III said on Monday he was grateful to be able to see a statue representing his parents’ love story and their partnership. While some people have negative opinions about the monument, he told CNN’s Don Lemon on Monday he liked it.

“I think that’s a huge representation of bringing people together,” King said. “I think the artist did a great job. I’m satisfied. Yeah, it didn’t have my mom and dad’s images, but it represents something that brings people together.”

“And in this time, day and age, when there’s so much division, we need symbols that talk about bringing us together,” he added.

CNN has reached out to Thomas for comment about the reaction to “The Embrace.” In his newsletter, Thomas said earlier this month the piece was not only a monument to King and Scott King “but a monument to love and the power it holds.”

A representative for Embrace Boston, a racial and economic justice group nonprofit behind the creation of the monument, declined to comment about the criticism and deferred to King III’s comments.

“The Embrace is intended to inspire visitors to reflect on the values of racial and economic justice that both Kings espoused,” the group said about the memorial on its website."

Yeah, this was an odd choice, The full picture, or at least adding from the waist up would have been better.