Swastika defaces Obama portrait in L5P
May 26, 2008 at 1:48 pm by Joeff Davis in NewsSomeone spray-painted a swastika and X’s last night over this graffiti portrait of Barack Obama in Little Five Points.
Camron Wiltshire and two other artists had been working last week on the piece at the corner of Colquitt and Euclid avenues. Sir2 painted another Obama portrait, and Michi had scripted out the old Sam Cooke lyric: “A long time coming but a change gonna come.”
Wiltshire, who happens to be a former CL Lust List winner, came by today to put the finishing touches on his portrait — and discovered the swastika. Sir2’s portrait also was defaced with a swastika.
“Nothing stops love,” Wiltshire said. “The person who did it is forgiven. And if he’d like to come talk to me, I am open to it. And I hope as a collective humanity can evolve and learn to love each other.”
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May 26th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I’m slightly more……enraged than Wiltshire, but I like Wilshire’s pov.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Stay classy, Atlanta!
May 27th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Thank you for Covering this
May 27th, 2008 at 1:38 am
I think its a disgrace that this Barack Obama piece was put there in the first place. They covered a portrait of Martin Luther King with one of an unaccomplished politician; it makes no sense.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I know it is newsworthy to some, but I cringe at the idea of some nut showing his dirtbag friends the publicity he has received.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
thats hate city for you!
May 27th, 2008 at 11:39 am
yeah what the last 2 guys said bring back the mlk one and they guys that did this are most likly loving this shit right now!
May 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Having painted both walls I will say that my intention was to not focus on the perpetrators at all.
Whats the point? I mean so what if someone defaces something, what about what they are defacing? And why are artists so inspired to paint the future president of the United States?
Well its because this candidate actually has the potential to heal America’s unkempt racial, genocidal wounds.
This man is a living symbol of unity being both truly Black and White. This is someone who is a living example of Dr. Kings dream.
Dr. Martin Luther King is of course to be always respected, but he is also dead. Obama is alive, therefore it is important that we do something NOW to affect change.
I will paint Dr. King many times in my life I am sure, and this wall will continue to be used for public art and hopefully to inspire higher ideals in those who pass it. Though he is not with us physically his Dream and his courage and conviction live forevermore.
Also remember, there are many walls in this city, feel free to post your own complaints, dreams, fears, loves, etc.
Now let’s get busy!
-NOW
http://www.weareallone.tv
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
The defamation of the wall is a symbol of fear. Fear in all those who embrace oppression and hate amongst all races, sexes, religion, and classes. They fear a change is inevitable. Dr Martin Luther King would be proud of the 2008 rainbow coalition. Paint over him now and paint over Barack with our future leader later!
June 9th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
This kind of hate from the white supremacists is to be expected, but make no mistake about it, we have the numbers and we will have our revenge. ALL POWER 2 THE PEOPLE.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I agree about the hate from white supremacists and their public displays of ignorance and bigotry.
To which “numbers” do you refer?
And what do you mean by “revenge”?
June 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Does it seem odd to anyone that a white supremacist doesn’t know how to paint a swastika?
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Have you seen the look on people’s faces at Obama rallies? Have you noticed the narcisstic aspect of the “O” symbol in red/white/blue (swastika anyone?). Do you not see the extreme danger in a person saying “….We are the change we’ve been waiting for.” (Obama on Super Tuesday night).
You Obama people are sheep. And I am very scared for this country.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:09 am
wow this is bull shit u got a pic of a nigger that aint even the presidnt i garentee if that muther fucker gets electid HE WILL GET ASSASSIONATED!!!! yallblame bush for all the things messed up with the usa but it didnt just randomly start it has been going on sence we brought the scum 2 america. u can hait on me or my people all u want but it dont matter cuz we are stronger than u can imagine!! i know yall herd this before!! TO STOP THE HATE WE MUST SEGRAGATE!! AND IM NOT A NEO NAZI OR A MEMBER OF THE KKK IM JUST PROUD OF MY HERITAGE AND NOT SCARED 2 STAND UP FOR IT
October 5th, 2008 at 12:12 am
2Sick, u r the funniest idiot that god has ever gifted with the ability to write such non- scense. I mean after all u r the dumb fucks that brought,as u say the scum,2 the USA because u lazy bitchez wanted us (the scum)2 do what u couldn’t and still can’t do. Sooooo! Again it’s going 2 take a strong black man 2 rebuild what u fuckups,like everything else, have destroyed. Hope I pissed u off enough to grace us with more of ur bullshit. Kissezz from BLACK BEAUTY:)
October 15th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Fuck this terrorist, Kenyan/Indonesian piece of shit! I’m glad someone painted over it. He is at the same level of the Nazis after all.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
cut the crap NObama, state the real reason you’re against Senator Obama.
October 30th, 2008 at 4:09 am
i love the enternet!! it gives the worthless, yellow bellied, rasist, piece of shits in the world the gift to say all the things they feel inside… that they will never have the balls to EVER say to the faces of the people they hate so much. and to the comment about the sheep, are we sheep if we vote for mcain? Or are we voting for the right guy? and by the way, you uneducated red neck fucks, man evolved out of africa. every human being on this earth started in fucking africa!! and guess who found that out… a WHITE MAN!!! So until you dick heads open a book,(hopefully a bible) keep your fucking mouths shut if you dont have the testicular fortitude to go to work tomarrow, aproach your fellow african american coworker, and say, word for word, what you typed on the computer the night before, and see if you dont get your fuckn teeth kicked in. That is, of course, if you cousin kissin, sheep fuckers have a job, out side of your weekend rallies at your local “y”. holla
November 1st, 2008 at 1:52 am
That’s funny! I don’t think white people got the memo about being the minority.Or maybe they did and that’s why their so angry.LMAO!!!
November 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
loaf
November 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
my goodness such anger. i agree with keeping the wqall current and the necessary change coming, especially with all the angry folks who think this country aint big enough for us all. theres no more earth so this is it. we are staying. deal
November 6th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
OOOOOHHHHH SSHHHHIIIITTTT!!!!!!WHERE THEM HATERS AT NOW!!!!OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA,!!! YOU FUCKIN RIGHT!!! MR. PRESEDENT BITCHES!!! KNEEL AND KISS THE RINGS!! I SEE THE NAYSAYERS ARE AWFULLY QUIET THIS WEEK!!!! I LOVE IT!!
December 10th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Can I just point something out here? That Swastika has two extra lines. I don’t think we’re dealing with organized Neo-Nazis here.
Also, “assassionated”. Brilliant, I honestly couldn’t have come up with that one if I sat down to consciously think up stupid things for dumb crackers to say. And also writing “yall” as if it was a word. Not a physics major.
December 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
The swastica is wrong excepting the person is accustomed to german law and tried to coat it
January 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hey I’m white and German, I voted for Obama, I think that’s a bunch of bullshit what they did to that picture. Racist, redneck fuckers believe in something that’s not real and just need to deal with the fact the right man won. Beliefs aside, he’s going to do fine and maybe even exceptional. It’s worth a shot, it can’t get any worse than bush. I see this picture of Obama as the “46-year old Political Virgin” if you read the small print there is some very racist, almost threatening remarks about Obama. They’re trying to compensate for a lack of something I’d say.
“Celebrate Good Obama COME ON! It’s Obamarama”-South Park
January 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
As I posted long ago, don’t you think a neo_Nazi would know what a swastika looks like? I am betting this is an example of crimes committed to generate sympathy for ones own side, rather than a “hate” crime by racists.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
kenyan born barrack hussein is a fraud! Another ankle grabbing zionist whore who pledges allegiance to Israel!
wake up people you are being lied to!
January 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
hey obamarama, you’re an idiot and the joke is on you! you obama zombies are truly mindless drones
January 19th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
yeah, i’m SURE that a liberal minded person painted a swastika on the obama painting.
makes perfect sense.
we all know conservatives/racists/neo-nazis are too smart to do something like this, right?
i mean, just read their comments on this page. they come across as very educated.
worm/dalec = same person?
January 19th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Wesley What What – I have never made any comments even remotely close to “worm” and I never make a serious post under any other name. Perhaps you should read my first post on May 27th.
Regarding the intelligence on display NObama 08 and Worm are balanced pretty effectively by Momo and LMAO
I don’t guess you want to answer my premise – wouldn’t a true neo-Nazi know how to paint their most sacred symbol? It’s like a Christian not being able to draw a cross or that little fish thingy or a Jew that can’t draw a Star of David.
There have been similar actions by people taking actions like this to generate sympathy, have there not?
I’m just being logical.
January 20th, 2009 at 8:56 am
barrack hussein obama has appointed and is being controlled by the same devil worshipping evil that controlled the bush administration, talk about change huh?
obama is a member of the council of foreign relations(CFR), they have an agenda of a one world order government dictatorship. Is this what you obama zombies call change?
bush was poison, obama is poison and mccain would’ve also been poison
I think people have this twisted, I believe the swastika does not represent that “white people are pissed off” and or a sign of “white power” but rather that obama now serves the interest of the white nazi’s that control him. hello… this is NOT change! wake up folks
also, it’s truly a shame that image of MLK is now ruined with barrack hussein
R3g0kNlzE
January 20th, 2009 at 8:59 am
obamas silence on the gaza slaughter spoke volumes!
January 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I’d like to warn everyone here that martial law is upon us very soon! when the economy collapses in february/march or possibly sooner there will food shortages, violent riots and brutal martial law. foreign troops are training at military bases around the country for gun confiscation and house to house searches. FEMA is preparing camps around the country for those who oppose the NWO. People in america have been dumbed down with sports, reality TV and flouride in their drinking water and tooth paste. wake up people, dark days are upon us
pray for the best, prepare for the worst
January 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
“obama now serves the interest of the white nazi’s that control him”
yeah, i guess that doesn’t sounds like dalec.
more like the rantings of a lunatic.
but the “flouride in their drinking water” was a nice tip of the hat to the raving lunatic in “dr strangelove”. but maybe general ripper shouldn’t be a personal role model to anyone? just a suggestion.
as to the swatiska being spray painted incorrectly – yes, i think it’s entirely possible (maybe even probable) that the morons espousing this kind of hatred would be dumb enough to do it wrong.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am
Barry Soetoro is a usurper President!
barry is ineligible to serve as president of the United States due to mandatory guidelines in the Constitution that clearly state that one has be a natural born citizen of the United States to run for president, which Barry Soetoro cleary is NOT!
The Obama presidency is the biggest ‘HOAX’ ever put forth to the citizens of the United States in 230 years.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
and the kooks are coming out of the woodwork… this could end up as bad as that pathetic “Diddy cousin rapper” thread
January 21st, 2009 at 11:44 am
obama, the black bush
new face, same tyranny
January 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am
Even if all us “conspiracy theorist” seem sort of crazy, do your research. In time you will realize that there are so many different pieces to the puzzle. As you start to see where “THEY” have their hand, you’ll see, they all have the same agenda.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
dude, i totally believe u. i think “they” are all around us.
as a matter of fact, LOOK BEHIND YOU!
did u see them? they were right there!
and omg – did u see where their hands were? it all makes sense now.
why won’t anyone believe us? won’t someone think of the children???
January 21st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Wesley, apparently we are to ignorant or stupid to realize what is so clear to these folks.
Look out behind you I just saw one of them!!!!
When I was a kid “Them” were also referred to as “snipe”.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:13 pm
pollyanna
A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic
January 21st, 2009 at 2:30 pm
also, tell me this;
If the obama adminstration = change, then why has obama not bothered to persue cheney and bush on war crimes?
I’ll let you ponder that for a moment
January 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pm
oooh, i like this game. let me try.
nutjob
a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad
January 21st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Big Germ’s Question – “If the obama adminstration = change, then why has obama not bothered to persue cheney and bush on war crimes? ”
Intelligent Answer – Unlike some of his supporters, Obama is not a loon and realizes that Bush/Cheney are not guilty of war crimes.
That was easy…..next!
January 21st, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Conspiracy Theorist – n. (1) a person who seems to have cogent thoughts and the ability to construct realistic scenarios from seemingly unrelated events, but is wrong and can be proven so with simple logic and a rudimentary command of Google (2) n. nut – see “nutjob” (3) n. weirdo ie “He is a CT”.
I like this game….
January 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pm
“Intelligent Answer – Unlike some of his supporters, Obama is not a loon and realizes that Bush/Cheney are not guilty of war crimes.”
lol @ bush & cheney not being guilty of war crimes, you’re obviously not paying attention
also, there’s nothing intelligent about your answer.
January 21st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
OK, I will play your little game…. which war crimes, specifically?
You are paying attention, but I bet you don’t know what constitutes a war crime.
And you better come with something better than torture and illegal war.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
if the self inflicted wound of 9/11 isn’t enough for you, how about bombing, invading and occupying a sovereign country based on lies and false flag terrorism?
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
also, Obama the Usurper is a post turtle.
When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a ‘post turtle’
You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he sure as heck doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he is up there and you just wonder what kind of an idiot put him there in the first place.
lol, enjoy your “change” folks
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
A self-inflicted wound, huh?
So, what do you think of Jews, the New World Order and the Tri Lateral Commission?
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
dalec, now you’re just baiting him, lol.
January 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
little ole me? never HA!
Damn, I just realized I left out the Free Masons and Bilderburgers.
January 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
u never see the opposite, do u?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28927
January 25th, 2009 at 6:31 am
first off, most of the people posting here are obviously programmed into sedation. the few who spoke of 9/11 being an inside job, martial law being upon us, barry not being legit, fluoride in the water, etc. are on the right track. to DaleC: you, like most, used the “conspiracy theory” card and as usual were being biased when doing so.. this is why: Theory means there is no proof. once there is a single molecule of proof, it is no longer a theory. and trust me, we got more than a molecule worth! big germ: i think you meant “Conspiracy REALIST”. that said; way to go whoever did the final touches. take it how you will, but there are MANY things more than just similar to barry’s campain as the nazi’s. wake up. btw, they aren’t sheep, they are more like carrots. lol.
January 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am
They can’t keep the manuscript to Harry Potter secret, but they can effectively conceal the 9/11 Conspiracy?
If these powerful conspiracies are conducted by secret societies, why do we know so much about them?
If these powers against which you speak re so powerful, why is Alex Jones alive? For that matter why are you?
Logic is not bias.
February 4th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Wesley WHat What, may I direct you to Exhibit A of what, as you sarcastically said, a “liberal minded person” might do….
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/04/forsyth-obama-supporter-whose-home-burned-is-now-suspect/
Shocking, isn’t it?
February 4th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
shocking that there are nutjobs of every political stripe? not really.