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"Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday's "anthem of resistance."Last edited Sun Mar 21, 2021, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)
This is a moving article, apt at any time in our country. In 1999, Time Magazine named "Strange Fruit" song of the century. [Edit: My apologies for forgetting the link the first time.]
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees The haunting delivery by Holiday would forever be engraved on the souls of those who heard it. >snip Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop [link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/21/2021130/-As-long-as-white-supremacy-endures-Billie-Holiday-s-Strange-Fruit-will-be-an-anthem-of-resistance|
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| elleng | Mar 2021 | #1 | |
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| abqtommy | Mar 2021 | #4 |
Response to Oldem (Original post)
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 02:09 PM
elleng (125,977 posts)
1. written by Abel Meeropol
Response to Boomerproud (Reply #2)
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 02:17 PM
elleng (125,977 posts)
3. Meeropol was a communist and sympathetic to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
