Today is the birthday of one of the greatest civil rights leaders in American history and to mark his birthday it is also a national holiday.  That being the case, I figured I would celebrate the day with a few MLK tattoos.  Enjoy!

Up first is an excellent example of a very well done portrait tattoo.  I know I feature a lot of really sucky examples, but this is a good one (at least I think it is).

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Next up is a portrait style tattoo with a different twist…he’s blue. I’m not really quite sure what’s up with this one.  My guess is the artist was going for what MLK Jr would look like if he was in James Cameron’s movie Avatar.

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Finally, let’s look at a real example of Martin Luther King tattoo suckage…I mean I had to throw one in right? To me nothing says tribute to a civil rights leader than dressing him up like the Virgin Mary and having him stand on top of a little white baby.  Not only is the concept bad…the artwork is terrible.

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