Because if Obama had a statue, that's what he'd look like.
That Communist "socialist realism" statue of MLK on the Mall needs to come down ..... MLK was never a Communist, so the statue is a visual "theft" or co-opting of MLK for the Communist Party line.
If people want to do a statue of King on the Mall, it needs to be executed in the French realist style that is shared by all our military and national monuments.
The sculptor of the present (temporary) statue is a Chicom.