postracialcomments: “Strange Fruit” is a protest song and it was written before
postracialcomments:“Strange Fruit” is a protest song and it was written before the Civil Rights movement actually got on its feet, got established. And because of what I’ve seen around the world, I know that this theme, this subject of violence and bigotry, hatred, violent acts of mankind against ourselves.This is a theme. It’s a human theme that has gone on for time immemorial. It’s expressed in all kinds of different ways, whether it be racism, whether it be domestic violence, whether it be warfare, or a terrorist act, or simply one person attacking another person in a separate incident.This is something that we as human beings have to deal with, it’s just going on 24/7. And as an observer of this violence, even as a child, I thought, why is this happening?So I’ve always had that sense of empathy and kind of outrage that we behave in this way. So a song like this, if I were to do a version of “Strange Fruit,” I’d give the song honor and respect and I try to bring it back out into the world again and get an opportunity to talk about the subjects behind the songs as well.THIS SONG IS ABOUT LYNCHING OF BLACK FOLKS IN THE US SOUTH ANNIESmiley followed up with the question, ” When you hear Billie Holiday sing that, what do you hear?” “I hear a woman singing about lynching,” Annie Lennox didn’t say:Well, it’s hard to talk about, huh?Hard for who? Hard for a White woman that doesn’t understand the history of lynching?There is a woman that suffered so much in so many ways from her circumstance, from the situation of being many things, from being a woman, from being a woman of color, from addiction, from an upbringing that was extremely dysfunctional, and it ended badly. And you see this happening with artists, and female artists very frequently, and you ask, “Why? Why did this beautiful woman self-destruct in the end?” What were the things that caused her to disappear tragically at really quite an early age—she was just in her 40’s? I’ve looked at some YouTube clips and I’ve looked at her face and, you know…wondered what happened. And it makes me sad. And I feel that I want to kind of be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with her. If she was here now, we would have a lot in common, there would be a lot of things that we could talk about…Like female empowerment, women’s rights, bigotry, racism. What is it? What? You know there’s so many things we could talk about, we could talk about lipstick, too. We could talk about clothes. But we could talk about the things that are still going on in this day and age that haven’t changed one iota and the sort of pain that I feel because I would like to see a world that could transform. We have so many resources, and when we dialogue, we have an opportunity to make good, positive things happen, but we are in a world of madness and sometimes despair.Source with videoONCE AGAIN, THIS SONG IS ABOUT THE LYNCHING OF BLACK FOLKS IN THE US SOUTHWhite feminism has struck again. Stop co-opting the Black struggle to serve someone else interests and struggle, esp if you are going to erase the history. You have no right to take away from Black pain and suffering to benefit your platform. -- source link
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