Meaning Of Obama Signs In Downtown Seattle A Mystery – News Story – KIRO Seattle
Dozens of posters near the Space Needle depicting President-elect Barack Obama in whiteface have some people wondering what they mean and others saying the signs are racist.The black and white posters, with the likeness of Barack Obama and the word “OBEY?” underneath it, were found plastered around the vicinity of the Space Needle on Monday morning.
Seattle resident Michael Boren said he thought the posters were racist, while resident Kenny Brown said he didnt know what message the signs were meant to portray.
This is no mystery. These signs were designed by the same artist who did the HOPE poster. The primary distributor are these folks here. How hard is it to figure this out?
I would be offended if I was Shepherd Fairey.
I think #11 has the right idea.
This was likely some weak attempt at making a statement about Obama wanting to be authoritarian, or about him not really being black, or looking at him as the man.
It doesn’t really matter which of these was the original idea, I feel confident that marijuana and high fives were involved.
# 3 bill said, “Engineering Dissent? Kind of like ’sociological terrorism’ to me.
We don’t need this SHIT.”
Are your from Europe? The bastion of personal liberties, like freedom of speech?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7842344.stm
Ya know I just noticed a trend. The only ones who are offended are the rampant supporters of “Big Brother” style government. Which of course is who it’s supposed to offend pointing out what hypocrites they are.
If it had said “OFAY” would that have been racist?
Looks more like Andre than Obama. . .
Image the outcry when the first bad thing happens during the BHO administration, and someone makes a poster out of it.
The artist that made the Andre the Giant (or, whatever) Obey posters, also made the blue/red Obama poster. Maybe it’s all an inside joke.
Maybe this image might shed some light.
http://tinyurl.com/7xp2f7
#28 pedro
Too funny