Leslie Jones has an uh, fascinating view of the brand new Martin Luther King Jr. monument in Boston.
Whereas the “Every day Present” visitor host roasted the brand new $10 million sculpture ― which commemorates an iconic hug between King and his spouse, Coretta Scott King ― she requested that white folks sit this one out.
“White folks: You don’t must be saying shit about this statue,” she mentioned. “You perceive? You should sit your ass at the back of the bus for this one. You should honor the statue. It is a civil rights icon ... taking place on his spouse.”
The sculpture was impressed by a well-known photograph displaying King and Scott King embracing after he discovered he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The paintings focuses on their interlaced arms with out their heads, resulting in some ... misinterpretations. Jones, for instance, wasn’t the one one seeing one thing NSFW within the just lately unveiled monument.
Seneca Scott, a cousin of Scott King, mentioned she thought it “regarded like a penis.”
“OK, Black folks, what the fuck are we gonna do?” Jones requested Tuesday.
“We bought to speak about this. We bought to speak about this as a result of you understand it’s tousled when Black folks and the Proud Boys hate the identical statue,” she added, referring to the far-right extremist group.
Jones is the primary in a lineup of weekly visitor hosts for the Comedy Central present, following the departure of host Trevor Noah in December.
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