A lot of people are posting Billie Holliday’s Strange Fruit today, presumably in response to the execution of Troy Davis.
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar…
clembastow appears to have flounced from the Tumblr; but the point remains an important one and far more white people...
^ tumblr post commentary, done correctly. and responding to someone doing it incredibly wrong…
This article documents a strange link between the number of lynchings a state had in the past and their number of death...
At first I also had issues with the lynching comparison, but the more I thought...it, the...
The OP is concerned first and foremost with protecting white people’s feelings and with soothing white people’s...
You know what, no. Just no. Holy fucking no. I’ve seen Strange Fruit reblogged many times today on my dash and in all...
Et j’en fais partie. Relevant point...view. clembastow: