A drawing of Barack and Michelle Obama watching Martin Luther King and Malcolm X playing a dice game is raising a ruckus on social media. The drawing shows former President Obama and the late civil rights leaders holding wads of cash while watching former NBA player Allen Iverson roll the dice.
The image was posted on Instagram.com by Justin Richburg on Thursday.
Other notables seen in the image included Tupac Shakur, Mike Tyson, Kevin Hart, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, and the Black Panther.
As social media users expressed their praise or disappointment, one Twitter user pointed out the reference image is the Migos playing dice between two tour buses.
“Truly incredible that they were able to make that from this,” @trevorbnj tweeted.
what’s worse, sis, this caricature or the reality of a real life carticature playing real dice in the white house?
Who’s the light skinned chic by Denzel?
Why all the henny bottles under Obama?
I think Justin Richburg is talented. Those images DO look like those he were trying to portray.
Now the dice game…no comment.
Where Jesse and Al? Guess they didn’t get paid this week.
Halle Berry in BAPS…lol
Rihanna, look at the hand tat
I’ve seen worse.
Ri Ri
I mean, it’s Art….Its a dope picture….we all know it’s MOSTLY fantasy, especially when it comes to MLK, the Obamas, Oprah, and maybe one or two others in the drawing.
Fantasy art…I like…
It ain’t worsen than that MLK thing that they do down south. With him on the flyer, a bandana on his head while a chick twerking on him naked.
Better than that artist that painted Obama and a few other famous men in between a woman’s legs eating poosay….
Wow…really! Never seen it
That could be so
LOVE IT! That’s what Art is suppose do! SUPPORT BLACK ART!! I fully endorse this ART.
Folks mad over a pic of imperfect folks doing fictional wordly chit.
Martin Luther King –ran women. Some white ones too.
Malcolm X –A former pimp. Allegedly Sucked some dick.Maybe more… we dont know.
Allen Iverson –threw Tawana out in the night time Philadelphia snow…naked as a jay-bird
Tupac Shakur- Glorified the same fukkin gangs some of yall on Cardi ass for….but it was okay when he did it. Fukk folks.
Mike Tyson-Don’t get me started.
Kevin Hart-I aint got the time.
Denzel Washington-Him neither.
Will Smith-his bf about to be living in him and Jada pool house like Johnny Gill, Eddie and Nicole (then after her, Tracy Edmonds, Scary Spice, and…IDR her name. Coffee Loving Cave Demon)
Oprah Winfrey-smoked CRYKE
IDK what Barack and Michelle are guilty of but I’m sure something.
People like this but had a problem with the Obama portraits at the Smithsonian?. This is classless, tasteless, tacky, trashy and disgraceful.
This shit is extremely disrespectful
I like it. It’s art!
Is that short ass Kevin Hart drinking a cup of lean? LMAO.
I remember that. I believe it was a flyer for a strip club.
The cool thing about art is it’s open to personal perspective ,l like it ,l don’t find it offensive
I don’t get it. ?
Whuuut???? I’ve never seen that one…
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Whuut???
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I’m trying to keep an open mind for art’s sake. At first I was like, Hell NO! But these are ordinary people who did extraordinary things. They prolly would have enjoyed a good game of spades or dice… Still….
More fiyah!! #Savagery Yea, you may look up to that person, but that person had a lot going on. I be side eyeing MLK a lot.
Its tacky and disrespectful. And it was created by a black dude, he’s a fuckboi
This is what I get from the pic….though these are extrodinary ppl, they are still ni**ERs.
Art is interpretive and introspective that’s why I don’t take offense to it. But why is Michelle up there looking like, babe, don’t spend no mo money, you’ve lost enough. And Barack is like, I’m getting my damn money back that I lost.
Michelle as a ride or die chick in pearls.
I can’t imagine Michelle hanging all over Obama like a love sick puppy she seems too independent minded for that kind of behavior
Art is open to interpretation. I like it lol. Im mad that Kevin Hart face is spot on….
Why did he throw T’Challa in this
Would Obama like it?! He would probably say where’s all my white friends I grew up with?! I’m just playing before someone blood pressure goes up! ????. I gotta go to work! Happy Friday!
This is the work of one solitary dumb4ss. Last thing we should do is go to his page and give him more attention.
Thats the vibe I got too. Looked like a lot of it was 90’s Inspired
Nothing for Rihanna?
Meh. Not that great of a piece anyway.
What’s so wrong about shooting dice? People bet money on games they play everyday.
Yea it’s in bad taste.
Dummy
Aren’t artists supposed to create art that stirs people up and moves society to question things? How is he a fuckboi for doing what artists do? You’re just a moron.
Why Pres. Obama gotta be smoking? Is that a blunt?
You haven’t seen that flier? Lemme see if I can find it. It’s too much ??
Yes! That’s it!
That’s a Newport 100 lmao
Your avi got me screaming…… in tears…bwahahalol.?
This makes sense, I was confused when I first saw it as well.
I peep Tupac and T’Challa in the back. I like it. Art is provocative, after all.
Disgusting!
True ignorance!!!!!!
If I didn’t know better I would have assumed a racist white supremacist would have painted this.
Say what????
NO but they probably compensated him for it.
Ok this made me laugh. We get it nobody’s perfect but damn.
Man there’s a lot going on in there. What’s up with the Madea movies in the bucket and where the 40ozs at?
Rihanna though she was Nicole Murphy
Denzel thought he was Idris Elba ?
There’s videos online of Obama smoking. Nothing new there. But the rest. Smdh
That’s supposed to be my Robyn?
Reportedly Has herpes.
There.
But nothing is wrong with converting the dogs playing poker and replacing them with actual people? A dice game is the same as poker. Always making something out of nothing.
I’m sideline mad I wasn’t invited to this fictional shindig. Look at all that fictional brown likka on ground. Unopened!
Yes i don’t think this was done with the best of intentions I mean how could it be? Black leaders in stereotypical ghetto roles and no I’m not talking about Iverson or Kevin Hart, I don’t expect anything honorable out of them but why the Obamas and MLK, with Oprah? It couldn’t have been done with good intentions. It seems like he is trying to show that no matter how far you come in life you are still just low class n*ggers shooting dice and smoking blunts and hanging on corners. I’m assuming that was his intention. I don’t like his “art.”
Black Americans wow how distasteful. Shows the painters thoughts or environment.
Trash.
I’m not gonna lie: I did chuckle while saying “wtf is this?”
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Just curious. Is what you find distasteful the depiction of some well known and respected blacks doing things that admittedly folks in the black community do every day, or do you find the very acts displayed distasteful?
Which is why I don’t feel THAT bad that I chuckled?????
Borderline looking like a good time, you say? ?
Have a rockin weekend ?
RIP Eddie Amoo from the band ‘The real thing ‘(sang hits like you to me are everything)
SMH
Twitter is the most disrespectful app ??? why do ppl go there looking for chill ???
Art is art. There was a discussion about what is art on The View and somebody said that Picasso drew some incomprehensible paintings. I don’t see anything wrong with this. Black people need to get over it.
Art is art. I accept all art. It’s open to one’s interpretation. Don’t like it, don’t buy it.
My art is Jews burning in the oven.
Offended Lebron’s jersey is on the floor. Why T’Challa leanin in the back with Pac?
Why drag A.I. into this foolishness? And is that Superhead sprinkling crack onto Kevin Hart…?
Dead absolutely dead.
Hell naw, lol.
Well damn ?!
What black community are you referring to?? I don’t shoot dice, gamble, or drugs everyday. Stop being stereotypical. Art is about expression and sending a message. What message does this send? Some of these people didn’t become great doing these things and some of these people aren’t great anymore because some of the very things portrayed in the picture.
TOTALLY AGREE!
Cool pic…not offensive to me. We have a blast whn we gt together & gamble. Oan yt folks gamble too…if not more. FOH complaining abt EVERYTHING.
Acting like these folks cant be depicted shooting dice. Chile!
I like it. Whoever drew it, is very talented.
Lol!
Call me cray but what this says to me is, it doesn’t matter who the person is, they’re just like everyone else… they drink, smoke and make bets. Having fun as they see fit. Not that serious.
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Nah
I think Rihanna… I scrolled back up and noticed the hand tattoos
Did you actually read what I wrote? Exactly were did I say ALL people in the black community do the things depicted in the artwork? If you don’t personally do those things, great! However, only a quick review of of various aspects of Black culture — esp. Rap and Hip Hop — would suggest that such acts are not only tolerated within certain segments of our community, but also celebrated. To suggest otherwise is to deny reality. And yes, some people do become successful doing the very things depicted in this piece. One need only look to the very inspiration for this satirical artwork, the very popular and highly successful Migos.
Black people are just fun in general at first i said WTH but then looking at it we just get together and enjoy each other in this way so it’s all right
Disgusted with this very image.
Perhaps it also shows somethings to think about. Obama admittedly smoked weed and cigarettes, as well as hanging out with a former drug dealer. MLK was known to rip the streets with women for sex. There’s more to the stories in this picture than meets the eye.
get owt ma face
Tacky and distaceful….
A motherf**king shame
Is that Kevin Hart to?
Why they got will smith in fresh prince of bel air wardrobe?
And is Rhianna doing coke on Kevin harts head?
My opinion: It is ugly and stupid. Next.
Now perhaps I’m being overly optimistic in my view, or possibly reading this depiction in an entirely wrong way (though interpretation of art can neither be right nor wrong really I suppose)…while I can see a whole heap (country ass unit of measurement, bear with me) of offensive things here, I wonder if this depiction is simply showing us who these people COULD have been (and in some cases were, prior to getting their lives all he way together, if anyone has read Malcolm X’s autobio, you know where I’m headed…but not just him…there are others as well…)…but perhaps, the artist is simply trying to show us that, there could have been many courses that these same game changers could have taken that are in direct juxtaposition to how we largely view them today…#justathought
No, just…no! If a white person had painted this a lot of y’all would be upset.
This is some bullshit! If you are not offended then maybe this is your lifestyle or how you view yourself and your people but I am offended that images of our leaders are depicted as common thugs, street characters, buffoons, and overall i(n the eyes of some who are watching and hate us) n**** images. This is what they want to see us as and you give it them! Shameful, disgusting, really! Expect more, do more, be more!!!
Dude will sellout everybody for his 15 minutes…
Isn’t art support an emotion? The emotion I get from this is that nigg@z ain’t shyt. Even our heros. Sad.
Interesting thoughts!
None the less… disrespectful. I guess the artist was thinking the attention is worth it!
If potential buyers REFUSE to support the artist… it would be telling!
I thought that was Stevie and Joseline….
This piece of art is so dope .
So former President Obama never smoked cigarettes? Tupac didnt have his pants sag? Maybe the artist is trying to show this is what we look up to. You didnt see Condoleezza Rice or Powell in this? These are who most blacks look up to….wow i see a shot gun. This is so many layers.no black people cry fowl when all those ghetto drug hood books come out.
That pic is like 20 fire emojis!!
Look at the movies in the trash.. look at cross color jersey hidden
sadly, we do live in a day and age where people will go for controversy for no other good reason other than wanting the attention…
yes alot of black people like ghetto grimy low class things..i hear alot of black guys talk like they are proud to have been in jail
Ok.
1. Who’s the bald guy up there peeking in?
2 Why is Michelle Obama dreamily looking at Martin ?
3. What is Rihanna doing?
4. The dots above Kevin’s head indicate drunkenness.
PREACH!!!!!!……..JENNY JONES!!!!
I need to know more about the artist to determine what message he is trying to convey with this piece of art.
He is real talented I just believe he took a satorical misstep in drawing something like this.
But if PeeWee that sells incense and oil rolls up in the beauty salon when your under the dryer and you buy 3 it’s o.k. When you buy the pic of MLK, Malcom, and Obama sitting on a wad of cash it’s fine. I’m don’t know what was in his heart but it starts to grind my nerves when we let black folks have a free pass regardless of what it is. We the most finger pointing hollering racism every chance we get folks. If you cry racism all the time it gets old. We know racism exist but the same people on social media commenting don’t do a damn thing in the black community or show up when it’s really necessary. Everyday we encounter racism some we see and some that’s hidden. If we cry about it all the time it loses its power. If you dont agree I respect your opinion. So respect mine and save the name calling.
If we don’t call out racism all the times that it happens it gains power. If folks never get tired of being racist I will never get tired of calling out their racism. If someone had gotten tired and old from calling out racism you wouldn’t be able to enjoy the quality of life you have now. Now you are living comfortably the life you want on the back of someone else calling out racism and now you don’t wanna hear it no more. BYE and notice how the gun issue in Florida is America’s problem and Chicago gun issue is Chicago’s problem. Folks constantly blame Obama and Oprah for the crime because they are from Chicago and not asking the American government for help. Look at your map and see that Florida and Chicago are part of the U.S. I just won’t say/cry racism because it get’s old.
Thank you!!! I can look at this photo, laugh, and move on with my life. They want to stir us up with these race baiting stories and black people fall for it every time. Practice more self responsibility and educate thyself.
I don’t like the picture. That is all.
MLK doe…
NO.
This is so disrespectful…
DISRESPECTFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tasteless
Tacky and disrespectful which a lot of art is these days coming from certain segments of the population
the entire disrespect.
Actually this pic probably depict A.I. the best, but that is still my guy..
Black Panther power I guess .!!!
I would like to hear the artist take on this, I am sure he/she could shed some light on this.
Very disrespectful, don’t like it.
100% agree!! Who is this ignorant person anyways!!??
DA FUK!!! This is sooo disrespectful on so many levels……I’m gonna need some explanation as to why he thought this was good….
Your mother is a moron. He’s a fuckboi beacuse instead of making a postive piece he made this dog sh!t, using the image of great leaders. Now fuck off
this is jis plain out and out DISRESPECTFUL!!!! MAKES MY STOMACH TURN
very tacky and distasteful that is NOT ART