art © A K Segan
SWD 59
Trump and his Birther campaign allegorical sea monsters, with memorial portrait of
Virgil Ware, age 13, shot by 2 racist white teens, afternoon of September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Media: Ink, pencil, crayon, watercolor and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, which were scattered on pavement in a park I walk in. The upper part of the artwork is a framed photo I took on a drive to the Dead Sea, from near Tel Aviv, in 1999.
Art: Art begun September 20; completed October 18, 2024
Media: Pencil, ink, gouache. The frame is an old wood frame with a mirror in the upper section.
Art size: Framed, 28 inches H x 15 W
On Sept. 20, 2024 I began a portrait of Virgil Ware, a 13 year old African American youngster who was shot to death by a white teenager in Birmingham, Alabama on Sept. 15, 1963. Another African-American youth, Johnny Robinson, was murdered that afternoon, too. That morning four African American girls were murdered in the bombing of a Christian church by terrorists of the Ku Klux Klan. Virgil was born Dec. 6, 1949.
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Decades later, now former President Trump led a successful campaign for president which including his years of national leadership of the ‘Birther’ race hate campaign targeting now former President Obama and his family, American blacks and blacks worldwide.
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Mr. Trump has never apologized for his race hate, which continues on to this day.
He hasn’t apologized for his Third Reich, Der Sturmer Nazi newspaper inspired
2016 campaign meme image of a photo of Mrs. Clinton, money and a Star of David. His hatred of Hispanics, Hispanic Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Muslims and Muslim Americans, and of the disabled is staggering and unrepentant.
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This drawing footage is of Oct. 16, 2024 while working on the imagery of the allegorical sea monsters, including writing with words.
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This is a companion drawing to SWD 58, which thematically addresses the racism of Trump, the millions of Republicans who support him; the history of the Ku Klux Klan and the Klan's murder of 4 girls in their bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, Sept. 15, 1963. That afternoon Virgil Ware and another black youngster, Johnny Robinson, were murdered by white teens.
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The url of an NBC News article about Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson, the other black youth who died that day in Birmingham:
The two forgotten Black boys who died the day of the Birmingham church bombing
Johnny Robinson and Virgil Ware were killed in the aftermath of the Birmingham church bombing in 1963.
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