Kehinde Wiley Does Barack Obama

Remember when Kathy Griffin was widely excoriated and shunned for portraying herself holding a severed head of President Donald Trump. It was not funny. It was not a political statement. It was grotesque and disrespectful.

Now, however, we discover that an artist names Kehinde Wiley, chosen to paint a portrait of President Obama, has also painted pictures of black women holding he severed heads of white women. Apparently, this signifies black power.

For your edification, here is the image of the Obama portrait, accompanied by the picture of Michelle Obama... painted by a different artist.

People have remarked that in his portrait Obama is presented more as a thinker than as a leader. Not a bad idea. And it shows him surrounded by vegetation and foliage… a leaves of grass look. As it happens, his chair seems bizarrely drafted… thus giving the impression that he is about to fall over it. 

Wiley portrays the president as angry, which also makes sense as a representation of Jeremiah Wright’s protégé. Thus, angry and weak, not a leader, surrounded by Mother Nature… not a bad rendering. At the least, the portrait resembles Obama. 

It’s more than we can say about the portrait another artist did of Michelle Obama… which does not resemble her at all. This means that, in the hands of her chosen African-American portraitist, Michelle Obama has no face… she is unrecognizable. Obviously, this is grossly insulting, even if it was not intended. It probably just meant that the artist did not know how to draw a face.

And yet, when Barack Obama chose Wiley to paint his portrait, he must have known that he was glorifying an artist who paints ghoulish images of black women decapitating white women… a wish to return to the time of the French Reign of Terror, perhaps.

It tells us that Obama was always and remains Jeremiah Wright’s protégé. He could not miss the opportunity to use his presidential portrait to display his contempt for America and his hatred of white people.