Racial prejudice is what kept Jesse Jackson from being a viable presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988. This issue was swept under the carpet at the time, but David Hammon’s aggressive brings the issues into pure daylight by plastering a whitewashed version of Jackson on a canvas. “How ya like me now?” a famous rap slogan by Kool Moe Dee, was painted on this whitewashed portrait of Jessee Jackson and was soon destroyed via sledgehammer by a group of people of color. David Hammon’s How You Like Me Now? Critiques the racial prejudice and racism still ever-present in politics. His depiction of Jesse Jackson as a white man not only formally decenters any preconceived notion of the figure while also decentering the viewer’s understanding of the event. The shifting of formal elements within the work, that being the figures racial depiction, was the strategy to create an inflammatory response to the racism ever-preset.