Why couldn’t Obama have chosen THIS Norman Rockwell painting to hang in the White House?
The above painting is Norman Rockwell’s “New Kids in the Neighborhood” (1967), which normally hangs in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts but is currently on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (until December 2011).
It’s a commentary on the first black family moving into a white house in what was most likely an all-white neighborhood, with local children coming to meet their new neighbors.
No one is hurling epithets, making threats, or being victimized in any way…though all appreciate the historic and unprecedented nature of the first black family’s arrival.
Like with any great art, you can read whatever you want into this painting. If you’re part of the Race Industry and your livelihood depends on fostering a conceit that Americans just hate black people, then you’d probably claim this snapshot was taken mere seconds before a horrific scene of intolerance took place — the quiet before a racially motivated storm. That’s sure how Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, and Barack Obama and (most especially) Michelle Obama would see it.
Or, to be much more accurate, you could realize this was the first introduction of friends who would enjoy playing together for many years, having many adventures, and someday looking back on this initial meeting as one of the most fortuitous days of their lives (well, everyone except the cat and the dog, who will probably always hate each other, because everyone knows that cats and dogs are just irredeemable racists). Allen West, Kevin Jackson, Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would probably see it this way (about the kids’ attitudes towards race relations, anyway).
This week, Obama created a stir when he chose to borrow Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With” (1964) for prominent display in the White House, just outside the Oval Office. It’s also owned by the Norman Rockwell Museum, and is scheduled to hang in the White House until November 12th, 2011, when it’s set to join a national tour called “American Chronicle: the Art of Norman Rockwell”.
This is interesting because it means the painting will only hang in the White House for, what?, less than three months?
Most likely, the Obama administration would have trucked this particular painting to D.C. for just three days, if that was the only length of time the Norman Rockwell Museum would part with it, because Obama’s handlers for his re-election campaign just wanted photo ops with him, standing before this painting depicting the ugliest of moments in the Civil Rights era, while it was displayed outside the Oval Office.
Obama is very clearly abusing the painting and twisting its original intent to serve his own needs — namely, to ensure that black people eviscerate anyone who challenges Obama in 2012. It’s a clue the Race Industry will rev up, full-blast, to call everyone opposing Obama’s re-election RAACISTS!, and a clear and present warning to any Democrats who would dream to challenge him in the primaries.
A recent poll showed that 64% of the country thinks race relations have either stagnated or worsened during Obama’s presidency, because even though the media claims Obama is “the first post-racial president”, his entire propaganda machine is fueled by race-baiting. The race card is the weapon of choice of this White House, and race determines Obama’s point of view in all that he does.
I’m sure the Norman Rockwell Museum would have been honored to loan the White House either “New Kids in the Neighborhood” (1967) or “The Problem We All Live With” (1964), but Obama and his team chose the dated painting, specific to one horrible moment in the past, that recorded ugliness and hatred that just no longer exist…instead of celebrating progress and recognizing just how far America really has come.
Considering, as it is, that it’s an actual black family in the White House picking out paintings to hang where they want, which just would never have happened if America really was as racist as Obama and his ilk in the Race Industry keep claiming.
© 2011, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
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Look at the bright side: "The Problem We all Live With"also illustrates a bright side in the era of Civil Rights. It shows the US Marshalls ordered by a Republican (President Eisenhower) to protect a child from the hatred of the Democrats.
Because they are gearing up to make race the issue – how far they'll push the race riots we do not know – but a weak President can't run on his own record, he'll be playing the fear and anger card – it's disgusting. It's already begun, and this is one of the first wriggling signs of what looks to be a larger plan – start tracking it – every day you will see another instance…. designed to make us feel sorry for him I guess – will people vote for him just because they feel he has been put upon?
Because it was Ruby Bridges who originally requested that Obama hang this work at the White House. He did so to honor the 50th anniversary of her integrating New Orleans elementary school, which Rockwell based this image on.
Because he is a racist pig. With an apology to pigs for the comparison.
Because Obama didn't choose the painting that went up the artist petitioned to him the one that they did put up
Norman Rockwell, the artist, has been dead for a long time. He is not petitioning anyone for anything, except to be let out of his coffin if he’s vibrant enough to be petitioning.
I actually love that this painting was chosen. I think it clearly shows how far we've come as a country in such a short time. There were riots in the streets when the schools were being integrated, but onle a few decades later a black man was peacefully elected president. It's inspiring. Too bad it had to be Barack Obama though. And too bad that people refuse to judge him on the content of his character, and rather than the color of his skin.
The Obamas are Philistines. They know nothing of art. They hang around with rappers who use words like nigger and bitch and ho. They are in their 50's now but have the same taste in music as teenagers (teenagers who sadley never got to grow up with anthing that even resembles music.) I love Norman Rockwell but you can bet the Obama's don't because, well he was one of those white guys. They just like the implied statement this painting makes, which I am sure is not what Rockwell intended. Art is nothing but propaganda to the Obama's. That is why Obama's people instructed folks at the National Endownment for The Arts to support "art" that promoted their agenda. This painting by an American master unwillingly supports the liberal agenda of perpetuating black victimhood. Your a victim, and you are entitled; a mantra that has don't more to damage the will and spirit of African Americans than any other bigotry.
Perhaps is Norman Rockwell were alive today he might consider a painting depicting the Sarah Palin in effigy that a gay couple in West Hollywood hung from thier house at Holloween. "The problem we all live with" today is obsene misogyny and Obama is the greatest inabler of this national epidemic. This race issue is getting old. Black men are among the most entitled group of people in America. They get away with and are even rewarded for behavior that conservative white ment would be shunned for. But liberals try desparately to present the two most entitled demographs as some persecuted. I I though for one second that LBGT folks or black men were persecuted I would stand up and fight for them. But they are not. Well except for the few who dare to be out of the closet conservatives. Strong Christian woman who have made it on their own without being vagina opportunist or someones daughter, they are the persecuted today. Liberals somehow think living in the 60's while it's 2011 is some how progressive?!?!
He could have put up a more powerful Rockwell painting, "Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)". If anyone hasn't seen that one, they should google it. Another side of Norman Rockwell.
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