There’s been a lot of praise by the main stream U.S. media for the Martin Luther King Jr memorial, but they don’t mention that the statue was outsourced to China due to lack of funds.
According to Wikipedia, the memorial needed $120 million for construction. Only $108 million was raised, and that included taxpayer money from the Federal government. This is the reason the memorial contractor outsourced the making of the statue to China.
Not even the stone came from the United States, it’s Chinese pink granite. Just another sign of the times!