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i am sitting on the couch, i hear tapping on the door behind me, i turn around and see this

what do i do

It’s my understanding that Black voters are aligning with Trump in greater and greater numbers as election day draws near.  This is a picture of Donald Trump with his parents.  For those of you too young to know the significance of what they are wearing, they are Klan robes, an in the Ku Klux Klan, and they were life long members.  Fred Trump, Donald’s father was arrested in 1927 at an event for Klansmen, almost 2 decades before Donald was born.  This picture is towards the end of Fred Trump’s life in 1999.  Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father, was a member of the Klan for more than SEVENTY years.  Yet, this year, Donald Trump said he didn’t know enough about the Klan to disavow them.  Why would he lie about that? 

I am BEGGING everyone to please repost this and repost it often until election day.  Donald Trump is a liar and a racist.  His not so hidden agenda is to restore white power to America.  Understand that his policies will be detrimental to Black people in ways far greater and more far-reaching than we can comprehend. 

“You know how long it took me to save that money?” “Exactly! Which is why a little woman of your background would have had her hands full, trying to run a big business like that. No, you’re better off where you’re at.”

What Tiana has taught me, quite sadly (and probably what Disney didn’t really intend) was that hard work wasn’t good enough to overcome systemic racism. Tiana got a feel good ending, but I feel like her story has been told many times in real life without a happy ending. There are people who work extremely hard, but never being able to catch up due to the color of their skin.

So here is Tiana, muscles tense with labor, tired and contemplative, and struggling against the system that prevents her success.

This is probably the most symbolic of all the Disney paintings I’ve done so far - the verticality of the walls, the position of her shadow looming over the segregation signs, Tiana sitting right between the divide, and the nearly imperceptible lean of her body to the right.

Tiana is the ninth in my Disney Woman Series.

Buy a print here.

She thinks she’s a human baby

Imprisoned for his crimes

Bruh