It rarely is immediately understood. I would add that it is fascinating. Fleming is an accomplished artist, often painting and drawing art based on sayings against or about black people. Race is a strong and recurrent theme with him and he has used it as though it were an additional paint color on his own palette. Racial politics are strongly addressed by Fleming.
Sex is another theme, and gender too.
The sexual themes have to do with the danger that sexual activity poses for a black man in a predominantly white society. They also have to do with the unearned power that white men possess in many situations. His sexual theme is often intellectual, a cold and even unerotic, addressing of this serious powerful subject. His Rebus series of paintings uses pictures to sound out, spell out or indicate words spelling out not always polite phrases used about blacks or by them. The girl's husband and a buddy were charged first with kidnapping and then with murder.