No sooner did the new memorial to Martin Luther King go up in Washington, with newspaper stories and TV segments all archived on Google, than a sharp-eyed British news reporter in Shanghai — working for the Telegraph in London — reported that the large marble bust of MLK was ''outsourced'' to China and carved by a Chinese sculptor working in China — and that MLK's eyes even look a bit Asian in the artist's rendition.
I could be making this up, but I'm not.
Said Malcolm Moore, writing under a headline reading "Martin Luther King Memorial Made in China," notes that the MLK statue, standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, shows King ''emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed."