There's actually a lot to unpack in that picture. The white kid and his mom look totally weird and consumeristic. Their outfits and weird, and it's obvious they love buying stuff to show off. The kid even has a beret for whatever reason. But he and his mom look blissfully happy with their consumerist shit show lifestyle.
He's buying Black Panther shit. An inversion of reality - white kids like white heroes, and don't care for black heroes. For instance Finn in Star Wars, etc.
The black kid and his mom are skinny, and dressed in traditional looking clothes. Another bullshit inversion.
He's looking sadly over his shoulder, and it's implied the reason is that whitey has come and bought all the motherfuckin' toys in the entire shop before he had a chance to. The whites are oppressing the blacks as a mere consequence of going about their day in their hazy consumerist euphoria. The black kid wants to be part of white happiness.
1. Consumerism is the path to happiness.
2. White kids are made happy by merchandise from black heroes.
3. White people oppress others just by minding their own business.
4. Shops selling out of plastic shit is major problem.
5. Blacks feel excluded from white happiness.
The artist, Anthony Piper is black btw. Honestly I sorta expected a jedi. I guess a lot of blacks have learned to work with and manipulate jedi narratives about oppression and whitey being mean, etc.
I like the artwork, I think infinityshock will have to admit it is better than Obama's pimpy looking portrait.
The article the portrait illustrates is written by this guy:
I actually like that. Make bows great again.