(Jewish Group) Farrakhan may not like it but Jews and black people have a great musical past
Of all of rapper Wiley’s grotesque outpourings on Twitter, one message leaps out.
Amid his lies about the extent of Jewish involvement in the slave trade, and his Nazi-esque adoption of ideas around Jewish power, the troubled 41-year-old tweeted a reference to the song Strange Fruit.
That iconic track was first recorded by the brilliant black jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1939.
The song compared the victims of lynchings to fallen fruit — and there have been few songs that better exposed the racism directed at the black population of the southern US around the turn of the 20th century.
It is doubtful that Wiley was aware of the roots of a song that became an inspiration for the emerging black civil rights movement: Strange Fruit was written by Abel Meeropol, a teacher, songwriter — and American Jew.
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