I don’t know what else to say except, disgusting. There’s a video of this on the UK Telegraph website, this thing is horrible. Dr. King was made to look Oriental, there’s no mistaking it.

We spent millions outsourcing this to the Chinese. What a sorry lot we have become. Dr. King deserves better. To add a little urine in your salad dressing, Hop Sing is the same guy that did a Mao statue as well.

This crap just makes me so damned proud to be an American! How about you?

The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers.

Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope.

However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei’s rendering.

Mr Lei, who has in the past carved two statues of Mao Tse-tung, one of which stands in the former garden of Mao Anqing, the Chinese leader’s son, carried out almost all of the work in Changsha.

Really? The f—ing Chinese? When are we going to knock this crap off?