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Funny, I was just noticing that the Klan is back. Best part is you don’t need to be a white supremacist, no hoods or secret handshakes. You see, they outsourced it to law enforcement. Got an uppity one? Eventually some officer friendly will unload his pistol into the “superhuman monster”. I mean, you know, they are really all just thugs and thugs need to be put down…amiright? Only this time it’s neat an legal.
“Strange Fruit” originated as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings.[6][7] In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings, inspired by Lawrence Beitler’s photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana.[7] He published the poem under the title “Bitter Fruit” in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine.[8] Though Meeropol had asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set “Strange Fruit” to music himself. His protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden.[9]
Funny, I was just noticing that the Klan is back. Best part is you don’t need to be a white supremacist, no hoods or secret handshakes. You see, they outsourced it to law enforcement. Got an uppity one? Eventually some officer friendly will unload his pistol into the “superhuman monster”. I mean, you know, they are really all just thugs and thugs need to be put down…amiright? Only this time it’s neat an legal.
You never cease to amaze me Boohunney. Thanks.
from Wikipedia:
“Strange Fruit” originated as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings.[6][7] In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings, inspired by Lawrence Beitler’s photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana.[7] He published the poem under the title “Bitter Fruit” in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine.[8] Though Meeropol had asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set “Strange Fruit” to music himself. His protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden.[9]