{"id":348019,"date":"2018-02-13T05:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obamas-artist-portrays-white-girl-beheaded-by-empowered-black-woman\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T05:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:15:35","slug":"obamas-artist-portrays-white-girl-beheaded-by-empowered-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obamas-artist-portrays-white-girl-beheaded-by-empowered-black-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Artist Portrays White Girl Beheaded by Empowered Black Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>This just marks the latest form of leftist art being supercharged with anti-white hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind the new portrait of President Obama, portrayed the beheading of a white girl by a black woman in a 2012 painting:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Judith and Holofernes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KehindeWiley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KehindeWiley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ANewRepublic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ANewRepublic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrooklynMuseum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrooklynMuseum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/art?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4ybQLuL4n4\">pic.twitter.com\/4ybQLuL4n4<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Miss Lilly Bee (@MizzLillyBee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MizzLillyBee\/status\/575719767664951297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to art critic thejonellaqueen:<\/p>\n<p>This art piece \u201cJudith Beheading Holofernes,\u201d 2012, Kehinde Wiley, places Women of Color, specifically a Black woman in a position of power (and majesty). This is so important because of the racism and sexism that Women of Color have historically and continue to face today. (Not to mention other WOC who face marginalization because of other facets of their identity; SES, Queerness, Ability, trauma(s) in addition to this- the list goes on).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/obamaportrait?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#obamaportrait<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tcot?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#tcot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWdNzYtkw8\">https:\/\/t.co\/jWdNzYtkw8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uboNUbUV32\">pic.twitter.com\/uboNUbUV32<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Kit Daniels (@KitDaniels1776) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KitDaniels1776\/status\/963109002912690176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s ironic how Wiley was chosen to paint Obama, the president who was routinely accused of fueling racial divisions to justify more federal control of local police.<\/p>\n<p>As president, Obama often inserted himself into heated debates with comments that only seemed to exacerbate racial tensions, such as the time he claimed Trayvon Martin, who was shot by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman during an altercation, could have been his son.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Lol <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ObamaPortrait?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ObamaPortrait<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uxouActlA4\">pic.twitter.com\/uxouActlA4<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/obamas-artist-portrays-white-girl-beheaded-by-empowered-black-woman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just marks the latest form of leftist art being supercharged with anti-white hatred. Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind the new portrait of President Obama, portrayed the beheading of a white girl by a black woman in a 2012 painting: Judith and Holofernes #KehindeWiley #ANewRepublic #BrooklynMuseum #art pic.twitter.com\/4ybQLuL4n4 \u2014 Miss Lilly Bee (@MizzLillyBee) March 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}