Strange Fruit

[yvette30ful]

Showing this video to my eight year old daughter was very sad for her and I. It hurts that I can't even tell her that people who don't like BLACKS are not around any more, because they still are she is a very smart child so as she get's older she will have a better understanding of life. I will never teach my girls to see color because GOD created us all equal so to him be the GLORY!!!!!!!!

[chickenbuttlolhaha]

My teacher showed us this in our Global Intolerance class...

[BaconClothes]

I'm willing to bet for every black that's been brutally murdered here, there have been two whites. People are sensitive to this just because the media has put such a negative stigma on racism. Why are these murders more sad than when a black kills another white or black in the city today?

[BigBen81]

fuck!

[costixx]

USA, glorious because of the genocide of 2 races, indians and africans

[pickaje1]

@costixx I dont think you know what that word means. And If you think this that what our country has done is horrble, you know nothing about history.

[ciainformant]

THE JEWS ARE BEHIND SLAVERY...END OF FUCKING STORY

[KuwaitF22]

Lynchings don't happen for no reason.

But God bless the souls of the men and women who died for nothing.

[WHITEFREAKSOUT]

And even after ALL THIS still THESE DUMB NIGGAHS TRUST AND SLEEP WITH THESE SHIT FACED WHITE DEVILS

WE SHOULD BE SLAINING THEM, INSTEAD THOSE NIGGAHS TURN THE BULLETS ON EACH OTHER.

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

White people are evil. I don't know how black people can sleep with them. They're crazy out of their minds to do such a disobedient and despicable thing.

[ciainformant]

if people do their history they will find the first slave traders were negros.

it was the jew who bought slavery to america!

i cant believe people still dont realise this!

and what the hell does cracker mean? is it the same effect as calling one a nigger? so can someone tell me!

[GALVEZ35N23]

@ciainformant What's your point? None of that makes it right, does it? Everyone is to be held responsible for their actions and in this case WHITE people condoned slavary, no one forsed them to buy......just greed and disregard for other human beings of different skin color.

[ciainformant]

@GALVEZ35N23 it was the jew who was behind slavery in the americas. i am not saying its right, but this is known knowledge. do your research and you will see.

[ExaltedSirian]

@ciainformant LMAO you are retarded right??? Please tell me your slow??? I cant take this ignorance

[ciainformant]

@ExaltedSirian do some fucking research, why dont you start a jack ottos "forbidden knowledge" for it was the khazarian illuminist jews who pushed slavery on the south when they had already outlawed it, so then they targeted the north into believing the south were slave owners/masters when infact they werent. and the civil war began over rothchild/khazar lies. but yeah i am ignorant, retarded and slow you are dam right about that. thanks for reminding me!

[ciainformant]

@GALVEZ35N23 you couldnt be so far from the truth...it had nothing to do with skin colour. it was all about wealth and status. the higher negros sold the lesser negroid people to the portuguese and jewish traders & business men. the egyptians and midde eastern races also had negro slaves. there was also negro nobility who were part of slave trading. JESUS CHRIST LOOK THIS UP YOURSELF...stupid american school books are all wrong!! btw jews arent white.

[KuwaitF22]

@ciainformant Are you serious?

True, negroes were first slave traders but the Jew brought it to America? are you fucking stupid, look through some books for once in your dumbass life.

[ciainformant]

@KuwaitF22 me fucking stupid? your books are all zionist jew bullshit! the jews were the traders, the jews owned the maritime unions, the jews owned the boats...i am the witness, the french connection by walter white jr 1968....I THINK YOU MAY BE A JEW YOURSELF. TIME TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CHEESE UNDER YOUR TOE NAILS. WHO DO YOU THINK AMERICA IS FIGHTING FOR IN THIS ILLEGAL WAR AND WHO THERE ARE RUN BY AND SUPPORT?? THE FUCKING ZIONIST FUCKING JEW. WAKE UP YOU IGNORANT MISINFORMED CUNT !!!!!!!

[KuwaitF22]

@ciainformant Im the misinformed one? That really made me fucking laugh.

Yea, i' a Jew, but you wanna know what else? Im an ANTI-ZIONISTS. I dont follow any of that bullshit.

Judaism and Zionism, theres a difference you dumb fucker.

[ciainformant]

@KuwaitF22 say no more juden...you and your kind are behind everything shit on this planet and if i had my hands on your neck right now i would squeeze as hard as i possibly could. you are nothing but the produce of pure fucking evil. you know nothing about the history of the slaves..your kike brotherhood are behind it all..your kikes brothers are destroying the world...the end is near for you boo hoo jew! was ist das shiza juden! bang!!

[ciainformant]

Respond to this video... so do you think YOU are a burnt cracker? and i bet you have a jewfro!! ye-ah boi, kicking with the homies! shouldnt you be kicking with the bestie boys juden???? go stick the torah and talmudd up you shylock arse..you evil cunt! Ihre Art ist Vermon, dont Sie verdienen das Leben auf diesem Planeten Jude!

no matter what you say in response..one thing will always remain...the fact that you are a JEW.

[KuwaitF22]

@ciainformant How are Jews evil? Notice how you can't back up anything you say, making you look more and more like a fool. And the burnt cracker thing? I don't know what thats suppose to mean but ok. Im not black.

I also am A Jewish convert, so in your opinion, does that mean I was born and angel and will die a fiend? Retard logic is what that all sounds like to me.

People like you are one of the biggest reason why I left Christianity. People who are Underinformed, and full of hate.

[KuwaitF22]

@ciainformant

Judaism is not a plan, or a race, or whatever you may think. It's a religion. And I'm sick of people getting it confused with the crimes the Zionists commit. I love Judaism for the good morals and beliefs, not because 'I want to take over media and government and get rich'. There's a deeper meaning to all of it which you must be too blind to understand. And if that's the case, then I think it's time for you to start some studying.

[ciainformant]

@KuwaitF22 so you are a kike over nite!...good on ya! you just havent the will or guts to look the truth in the eye! because you are now a jew, so that means you are naturally right, ofcourse you are . i need to start studying? yes indeed. you wont even read the scripts by walter white. well enjoy your yamaka lifestyle and your passwind over! how can you leave one fucked religion to join another fucked religion?? wow you must really hate yourself as much as i hate you.

[MrBlackPalm]

PEACE be upon our ancestors that died at the hands of these devils!! Upon the return of the BLACK GODS may the descendants of these leprosy having filthy beast be expunged from the memory of the womb of earth

[Deleteyouy]

scary

[junya74]

One has to ask themselves how far is the human race from being reduced to animal savagery? This was only a couple of generations ago. Actually segregation is considered slavery as well so we're only 40 years out of this way of thinking. OR ARE WE?

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

On 2 June 2010 in South Carolina USA, a black man named Anthony Hill was shot dead by a white trailer trash CRACKER. The CRACKER then tied his body to his truck and dragged him 10 miles down a country road. It's the new millennium and there's a half-black President and yet the lynchings go on. DOWN WITH AmeriKKKA.

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

This is the most moving video I have seen on the lynching of black people in AmeriKKKa. You chose the right vocalist to sing Strange Fruit. I always thought that Billie Holliday had the best rendition of Strange Fruit until I heard this version by Nina Simone. Her voice expresses the painful lyrics to perfection. Strange Fruit is a song about black people FOR black people. The singer should expect no applause from the listener. This song should end in silence, in remembrance of our dead.

[eutuve]

Scent of magnolia ?

Or,

scent of Arian " perfection " ?

[raifenzen]

i don t know why white f aking american people do this to their friends.f aking slavery .

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

And to think many black people in America are still fighting for EQUALITY with the very race of "people" who are responsible for the heinous murders we see in this video. For black people to be equal with white people we would have to lower ourselves into a bottomless pit. We will never reach to their LOW DOWN LEVEL.

[SaltOfTheEarth69]

@KickWhitesOutAfrica

Practice what you breach darling,you do live in London do you not?I suggest you pack your bags and move back to your home land and clean out the white folk,that you seem to despise so much.

[cogicman2009]

well i think god right now to know im really bless to know that i didnt grow up during this time but still as an african american we still are struggleing but we'll make if we just keep on holding on to gods unchanging hand ..god bless you all

[4edutainment]

SLAVERY was an ugly business operated by ugly, greedy, ignorant people. The next time one of these TEA PARTY fanatics preaches to you about our "fabulous founding fathers"-- remind them of the fact that the FOUNDING FATHERS held slaves too. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (etc). preached against "tyranny and injustice" -- but did nothing to eliminate the MOST EVIL SYSTEM to ever exist on this planet. And remind them that the CONSTITUTION had a clause that made Blacks 3/5 of a human.

[BossLadee01]

We as people should learn from this. I dont believe in racism, I only see a person for who they reveal to me that they are. Maya Angelou said it best. "When a person reveals to you who they are, Believe them.". As a woman of color it saddens me to see where God delivered our people from and then for some of us to revert back to that "slave mentality" of degradation, disrespect and self annihilation. Lets grow and go forward together with all races of people. We are 1!

[DMarley16]

This breaks my heart. I can't believe ppl could be so cruel. Thats beyond evil.

[Salatbar2]

Ahoi mrwascaly42,

You are spending a lot of time here- the computer seems to be your best friend....

Perhaps you are an poor Schnitzel, living together with his mum, reading bad books, never had a girlfriend e.t.c.

Or do you dream of boys, black boys- yes I think they are your very special theme!

Have a nice day, mein großartiger, homophober, pervers- rassistischer Lieblingsfrosch und mach bitte nochmal laut "quaaaak"

[Papistephen]

There was a diff vid with same song on Youtube last spring. I downloaded it and I showed it to my students after we studied Reconstruction. It was the most powerful moment I had teaching that class last year. Thanks.

[mrwascaly42]

Cruel? In any given year in this country, more blacks die at the hands of other blacks than black who were killed in the whole history of lynchings. There was a quadruple homicide earlier this year in Indianapolis IN. where 6 black thugs broke into a house n shot 2 black mothers n their babies. The Mafia does not shoot babies, but these animals did. And ya know what, Al Sharpton never bothered to speak out about this. Had it been 6 Klan members, Indy would have burned.

[Salatbar2]

Sorry, but you compare cherries and apples.

First, killing people is always a crime.

But a "sundaymorningkillingparty" with the whole familie is more than a simple crime. In germany we call this sort of crime "Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit".

I am sure that in the same time (you are talking about) also more white people were killed by other whites, because of money e.t.c.

Are you not sad, when you are watching this pictures ??? Perhaps you are a nazi?

[mrwascaly42]

No, I'm not sad at all. 1st off, all we are allowed to see is pictures. What is the story behind a picture? How many of the people lynched in these pics were rapists or murdering goons? We don't get to hear that part of the story. In those days they did not have what we call today,"REPEAT OFFENDERS". The town took action n made sure that they never did the crime again. There were countless whites lynched as well especially out west. We are never shown those pics which makes it a 1 sided story.

[mrwascaly42]

2nd of all Salatbar, I highly doubt that you even know what a NAZI is. Beings that WW2 ended 20 years before I was born, it would make pretty hard for me to belong to a group that ended at the end of ww2 by the surrender of Germany. In case you didn't know, a NAZI was somebody who was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party which ceased to exist in 1945. You libs love to hurl slurs at whites that wont apologize for being white, n thats OK in your book. Screw off ya liberal dweeb!

[zyruemusic]

DONT TRY THAT SHIT!!!Them NIGGAS probably shot those women because they went to some WHITEBOY(POLICE)and opened their pie hole...Because of the history of what is on this page caused a DISRESPECT amongst BLACK women towards BLACK hustlers that she can get emotional and through this she gets made maybe because she wanted a gift he would not buy and calls POLICE as a power move just like Black mothers do to their sons the same DAMN way.U WHITEBOYS are in IRAQ killing SAND NIGGERS babies by 10000's

[mrwascaly42]

Like I really believe that bullshit. You BLACK BOY HOMEBOY GANGSTER THUGS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDERS OF MORE BLACKS IN "ANY" GIVEN YEAR IN THIS COUNTRY THAN BLACKS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF LYNCHINGS! Jesse Jackson said the same thing in 1994 except he watered it down to "the last 20 years" at that time. In 1995 or 1996 in L.A. county alone in one weekend there were 19 homicides and all but 1 was gang related n even that one was questionable. Not 19 Klan related, homeboys!

[zyruemusic]

YOU MUST BE DRUNK OR HIGH THAN A MUTHAFUCKA!!!There are GANGS of unreported hangings with the last hanging on record in 1997...barely 10 yrs ago!!!How many WHITEBOYS KILLED WHITEBOYS in CIVIL WAR??? HOW MANY WHITEBOYS KILLED WHITEBOYS IN WW1 or WW2? ALL KLAN RELATED!! NIGGERS are decendants of SLAVE and if we are killing like YOU SAY we learned that SHIT watching them WHITEBOYS!! Plus because of brainwashing caused from school the uninformed BLACKS followed the BLUE and RED from American flag.

[mrwascaly42]

The black boys that slaughter each other in Africa is uncountable. So that's a typical load of bullshit saying that you learned to kill from us, EVERY CATEGORY OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE THEIR SHARE, BUT NOT EVERY PERSON WITHIN THAT CATEGORY HAS. So that's just more bull shit BLACKBOY. Think about it, is it really gang violence, or just tribal warfare? Ya sound like a typical whiny ass crybaby just trying to make excuses for the way you act rather than taking responsibility for your behavior. GROW UP!

[smukasa]

damn...

[COLLYRRE]

The song was written by Abel Meroopol in the mid-1930s.

He was a member of the American Communist Party.

He was the adoptive father of the two children of the Rosenberg couple.

You can watch the excellent film "Strange Fruit" directed by Joel Katz.

[msojetta]

all that has happened and still we rise. now you know why american history is not taught in schools........

[yogihaughton]

Fuckin' animals, it makes ya ashamed to be white and British, we were the nation that has more African blood on our hands than any other nation. People did speak out about slavery, Wilber Wilberforce was one of the white folk that helped change the injustices but there were just too few, the white Americans were jus' runnin' riot with arrogance and nobody to halt the trade until the anti slave movement gained momentum in the 19th centuary, it was a slow process though. Fuckin' beasts

[KickWhitesOutAfrica]

@yogihaughton WOW. It's very rare to find a white person who isn't a BEAST. You must be a diamond found in England - and we know the soil of England produces no precious stones. Your comment is honest and from the heart. Kudos to you... and I don't say that very often to white folk... I 'm sure you can understand why.

[wtfjk1]

this video made me cry so bad, i mean i wasn't their but damn just looking at the slideshow is just crazy.

[masalaman]

no comments bro?

[Disneyfan82]

What right do we as a so-called nation have treating black people like something from a trash? And why is there a stupid girl smiling in one of the photos at 2:45? How'd she like to be in that victim's place to see how it feels like to be lynched viciously. Is that something to smile about? No it isn't. Nothing satisfying can come out of this horrible abomination. Nothing!

[Berniewahlbrinck]

The girl is smiling because she is a kid and she has been TAUGHT that this is "right" - you can teach people a lot, just look at the past 2000 years...

[TakedaMitsurugi]

So sad... These are examples of how horrible human kind can be.

We can be gods or demons. God and Devil are just ilusions...

[Dundee2004]

i just wonder how people can be that cruel...it really makes me cry

[twirlingtopsdontstop]

gutwrenchingly horrific but important for the truth to be seen/heard/told. Speak it out... I believe each generation is the voice for those who were decimated... WHAT I CANNOT U/STAND IS WHY DIDNT WHITE PPL STOP THIS HORROR??? WERE THERE NONE WHO SPOKE OUT??

[WHITEFREAKSOUT]

@twirlingtopsdontstop are you fucking stupid

[scriptureboy]

great job! Our generation needs to see THIS

[BooR1N9]

@scriptureboy I disagree, like Morgan Freeman told Mike Wallace, to get rid of racism stop talking about it all the time. Imho this video only shows how bad white people were 150 years ago. I'm happy things are different now, we shouldn't dwell on the past but hope to create an even better future. What people need to see, are the people dying of starvation in Africa and Northern Korea...

[cerebulon]

I always thought that song was faster. I've always wanted to hear it since reading those lyrics years ago. These people are sick. I can't believe this stuff was going on such a short time ago. What a disgrace.

[selpy]

This is such a hard subject to address, but you have done a wonderfully beautiful job of adding such a powerful piece of music (which has stood the test of time) to images of jarring and harsh reality this country led at one point.

[BamLoCC]

smh@these devils. Afrikan Power. Freedom or Death

[ProvacaTess]

What a travesty.