@wiccanmoonman is ignorant, as well as uneducated about the religion that is contained in his name. He does not represent Wiccan's, spiritualists', or pagans' anywhere.
@wiccanmoonman its because this was recorded on a proper vinyl, in the good days when music was about the meaning and the voice not all the editing and auto tune, if you don't like it, why comment? (by the way, i'm not an old lady who was alive when billie holliday was...i'm 14. i just appreciate good music)
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Good interpretation, but I don't think her voice is as incredible as those of Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and even Amy Winehouse.
I thought the purpose of the comment section was to comment on the video playing and not to compare which race is the most racist and why. Who does that? Especially in 2012? Grow up.... Love Billie Holiday! Her voice gives me chills every time I hear her.
Not too many people know all their own ancestry anyway, this is an amazing tragic truthful song about history, a beautiful and talented singer love you Billie
youtube should just make an app where you click on a comment and it shows that whole conversation from the very beggining, i mean do you know how long it toke me to find all of these conversations?
@paulj0557 I don't know. Is that a You Tube video. The people that are actual victims of discrimination like that are not bitter or prejudiced. People are people and everyone reacts differently. I live in Boston so the idea of lynching a black is about as foreign to me as the terrorism that goes on in the Middle East. Its like an entirely different country down South. Well it was the Confederate States of America once.
The word Race in itself is a stupid word,it is a lie.Race was a term coined to differentiate/segregate people.unfortunately it will always exist. I applaud any person,no matter the colour of your skin,if you choose to overcome racism.We are all victims of what we call racism,not only the people who are subject to the racism,but the people who choose to be racist,They are a victim of their own opinions and despite knowing that they will hurt other people they still choose to air those opinions.
@clanat01 When people make statements like "I hate all of you. You as an entire race of responsible for this and that. You are the bad guys." You can apply that to any race or any ethnic group or religion. The reasoning for the hatred is a reaction to past wrongdoings. Hitler blamed Germany's problems on the Jews. And just because lots of people agreed with him didn't make it right.
@ThePerfectBlack100 Well Perfect Black I think it is a matter of semantics. Judaism is not like Christianity in which a person can easily convert to Judaism and be accepted as a full fledged member of the religion. In Orthodox Judaism a person must be born of a Jewish mother in order to be a true Jew. Anyone can convert to Judaism but those persons are still considered to be converts also known as the Goyem. The Jews come from the 12 Tribes of Israel that followed to Jesus Christ
@ThePerfectBlack100 Would you consider Jesus Christ to be a Hebrew, Israelite from the 12 Tribes or someone similar to today's Jews, sort of a mix of Caucasian and Semite?
@JasmineeBites You do not have to read a comment that you do not like. There were many people who did not care for Billie Holiday's song. They preferred that she just sing love songs and this song was considered to be stirring up trouble. I am sorry that there are people in this world that do not share your opinions on everything. But cyber lynching isn't the answer. Is it?
Billie died at a relatively young age, still in the prime of her life. Drug addiction and alcohol abuse did not help her health. But that should not cast a shadow on the greatness of this woman. And when she sang this song she was indeed showing the greatness of who she was. It was daring for her to sing this song and some radio stations refused to play it. It is about Freedom of Expression. So if you don't like what I have to say, don't tell me to shut up. You can choose not to read it.
@TDS4UT fuck you and all white people why are you crying you were saying blacks are racist against whites well I am telling you yeah I am racist against whites and only whites
@ThePerfectBlack100 Fuck you and stop acting stupid. Hate me because I am a stupid person but don't hate me because of the color of my skin. If you want to hate me that is your choice. Just don't block out an entire race. Do I look like the King of the White People to you? I don't represent an entire race. There are German Aryans who think that I am from a lesser ethnic group and lesser than they are on the food chain. The Brits have looked down upon the Irish for centuries. Get over it.
@TDS4UT I am not british or German so who gives a dam I can feel how I want to feel you need to speak to your people because it is falling on death ears with me
@ThePerfectBlack100 My point is that there is no real unity with the white race. The English hate the Irish. The French hate the Italians. The Greeks hate the Eastern Europeans. And everybody hates the Jews. If all the blacks went back to Africa or were all dead there would still be racism and ethnic fighting over who is better than someone else.
I am sure there are blacks who commit violence against blacks. Its dumb and it needs to stop.
@ThePerfectBlack100 Thanks for the citation. Would the Hebrews be the Black Israelites like Jesus? And the fake Jews are the European, mixed race Semite-Caucasian Jews that crucified Christ? Herod favored the Romans because he was part European himself. Jesus and his early followers were black. The Pharisees that crucified Jesus were white or mixed race. Is that correct?
@ThePerfectBlack100 Semites are the people from the Middle East. Caucasians are from India and Tibet and migrated Northwest to Europe. Whether Jesus was a Negro or a Semite is a matter of debate.
@ThePerfectBlack100 What's bullshit my dude? Do you think Jesus was Caucasian, Semite, or Negro? Maybe you think I am talking shit because you have your head so far up your own ass all you see is shit. What do you need for a citation? The Bible. Talking to you is like educating a monkey. I talk to you. You throw your shit back at me.
@TDS4UT The dude you white people call Jesus Name was Yeshu. Dr.Blumenbach who was a German scientist in the 1800's stated that the caucasus was were whites could draw the line claiming indigenous racial stock.He stated that their were 3 types of races Negroid produced the Mongoloid and they produced the Caucasoid. The woolly haired "Negroid" is what would be more exact in describing the original Hebrews they married Ethiopians Not Anglos.Yeshu seeked refuge in Africa not Europe
@wiccanmoonman get a life. I'm 17. I like all Jazz and Pop (Lady gaga, Amy winehouse, Billie Holiday, Ella, Etta James) I'm a Big Little Monster. What I'm trying to tell u? This really a Good music (even with young boy like me)
@TDS4UT I thought this song was about how white man hung black people from trees. Bloody and all, they'd have parties around it. But then again, many meanings to this song.
@TheJackson4eva That is the only meaning to the song. It is a song about lynching. Which was done by mostly southern white man to black men. Billie did not hate white people. Jazz musicians were the pioneers of positive race relations.
I have been asked why am I here. Of course, I am a fan of Ms Billie Holiday, one of the greatest woman jazz singers of all time. I am also here because I like controversial songs. And one of the controversial favorite subjects of mine is Racism in America. I remember hearing this song in school and now it is in my collection of jazz recordings.
@Sarah43va I believe the "politically correct" definition is: when a group of people kill a person without giving them a fair trial. Basically people would go out in mobs, gather anyone they didn't like, and sentence them to death on trumped up charges. Many were african americans after the civil war
@Sarah43va What the hell you mean, "WHATS THE POINT OF THIS SONG?" it's quite obvious from the lyrics, pay attention. Use your brain and decipher the message. To end this, I recommend that you put much more thought into your next comment regarding this song.
@Sarah43va You can look up Wikipedia for that. The strange fruit is the dead bodies hanging by the neck from the trees. The Ku Klux Klan went around lynching blacks that they did not like. Sometimes a black person might be trying to organize blacks in a civil rights march or to join a labor union. Sometimes the KKK would pick out a black person at random- for no reason other than being black- and hang that person. The writer was not Billie but it comes from the agrarian culture of seeing
@Sarah43va What the heck kinda fruit's comin out of that tree? Bares no resemblance to the leaves or the fruit. My grandmother was from Alabama, my only branch of my family living in America during the Civil War. She would say things like "this Yankee soil don't take to my pea seeds." Nana could cook anything. Peas like I never tasted in my life. She taught me how to play the piano. She had black friends because she was Southern like them. Yankees wouldn't socialize with Negroes, the coloreds.
@Sarah43va My point is that you have to see a Southern person looking at the tree and saying "Looky here. What's that strange fruit coming out them poplar trees?" Then you look closer and you see the bodies hanging by the necks. That is the horror of it. But I don't think that Billie meant it as an attack on the South, although she talks about the "strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees" and the "gallant South." Racism like slavery is not a Southern problem- its an American problem
If anyone wants to believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was black, they have that right. God bless them, and everyone else with brains to end human exploitation - everywhere.
@MiserableOldFart But that's not what its about and it doesn't end there. Jesus is black. Jesus is a Black Israelite as all black people are. The Africans. The Jews that killed Jesus are believed to be white and as they are white are believed to be the fake Jews, not the True Israelites. Heaven is only a place for black people, sort of like the second floor balcony of an old movie theater.
Hell is the place for Jews and white people. We are the devils. The answer is to kill us. Bless that?
Instead of saying "don't be mean to black ppl, don't be mean to white people", you should say don't be mean to PEOPLE alltogether, cause that is what we are
@Lilyfloss What the definition of Racism in America has become is "don't be mean to black people." It does not include whites. It doesn't include Jews. That is the hypocrisy of it.
@ThePerfectBlack100 Maybe that would be the answer for you. Now I have been told to watch my language here. But maybe the answer for you is to date a white girlfriend, marry a white wife, and have a few mixed race babies. My ugly face won't convince you. But maybe a sexy white girl might.
@TDS4UT shut the fuck up.Did I say anything about slavery and end the Nazi and klan before you try to change people like me minds because as long as they exist I exist so like I said I am racist against white devils and only white devils suck it up with your racist ass on a video talking about balcks being lynched and crying about the white mans problems
@ThePerfectBlack100 There were white slaves. There were whites who were also lynched. There were black slave owners. There were blacks who were members of the klan. How long are you going to blame your problems on whites? Its not my fault you didn't get where you want to go in life.
@ThePerfectBlack100 And your not the first person to tell me that. But I'll bet you dollars to donuts that when people said you would see a black man as President people would say that you were out of your mind. How about seeing the slaves free? If we have black men going around with chips on their shoulders hating whites and wanting to kill them that's not what Dr King had in mind at all. If you won't listen to me- listen to him. That man died for you. This is how you thank him.
If I were to post comments on YouTube like "I hate blacks." "I hate niggers." "You niggers are the devil" and to join other white people on a page and say "don't waste your time talking to that nigger devil. They are evil." I would be accused of cyber bullying and racism.
Why is it that blacks refuse to accept that blacks can be racist? Calling themselves nigger isn't racist but the use of the word nigger is not limited to blacks alone. But blacks say that even when they beat on another race, it cannot be racism because they do not have any economic power. And its always the white man's fault.
what amazing song, what awesome poetry to describe one of the most brutal times in American history. Billie you were ahead of your time, today 2012 you are so current. thank you for your talent.
@RBRodas This song was written by a Jewish man. That was at a time when blacks and Jews were fairly tolerant of each other. Now the belief is that Jesus was black and that the white Jews, the Zionists, killed Jesus the true Black Israelite. The crucifixion was seen as a type of a lynching. I find it rather sad that many blacks today only relate to Jesus by his skin color and his teachings are of no use for today's blacks.
studied the african american civil rights movement when i was 16 and it made me want to do History at university. I'm doing a module on it now at uni & I hope to do my dissertation on it. just got a First on the first essay towards my final degree grade. her passion and her pain in this song is what i saw in the words i read from books.. and in other music like this. beautiful, brave, heart wrenching. you can't explain to people the pain you felt but you can give them an idea of it through music
@xProudxIrishxGirlx I would advise you to check out some of Sydney Portier's early movies. He did one where he was a union steward and he went South to work. At first he swore off getting involved in the union but he saw that the workers down South were exploited. He also saw much more severe racism down South. Its a great movie for that time period. I think Portier did more than one race issue movie.
@TDS4UT There have actually been several lynchings in the past 10 to 15 years alone. It is still done in the south especially. Nobody talks about because they either don't care or they want to cover it up so people will believe that there isn't still racism.
@ellorac09 That's a bunch of bullshit. Name a lynching of any black within the past ten years? And please do not include convicted criminals being executed as "lynchings." Because those have been reported on the news, 24/7. What people believe is that there isn't any racism of blacks against whites.
@TDS4UT First of all I wasnt trying to challenge you. Every race has someone who doesnt like them because of their race. I wasnt trying to deny that. All I was trying to do was bring awareness to the fact that it does still happen it just happens in the dark. Im only 20 and I know of 5 different times when someone was lynched in my lifetime. One of them was a friend of mine and he was only 15. He wasnt a criminal or anything. That was only 7 years ago. So now you know how young people can relate
@ellorac09 And you can't even name one of them. I see. Well I know of at least 50 times over the past 12 months in which black racists have perpetrated racial attacks against white people. So don't give me that bullshit about how blacks cannot be racist because they don't have any power.
@ThePerfectBlack100 I have to tell you, for your own good, that hate is not productive. You're losing the ability to recognize real evil when you assign a look to it. Character can't be seen with the eyes, don't be fooled. Your hatred will betray you.
@katdaddimd I am not a devil simply because I am white. So I am a pale faced mother fucker. I am sure that Billie is rolling over in her grave somewhere seeing the comments from this dumbass racist.
@lucas12345381 What language is that? I have come to know what I am called. Peckerwood. Cracker. Paste Face. Honky. I can go on and on. I hear the N word used every time I take a train or a bus. "Hey nigger, what's up?" I say it even as a point of reference and you have a problem with it. Dr Dre made a fortune on the N word. Got a problem with him too?
@TDS4UT The best I can tell you is to resist the urge to explain yourself to people online. The people who matter to you know your character and people who are open to knowing you will learn who you are as well. The rest... ef 'em. The best that you can do is to be sure that you don't let someone else's issues change who you are.
@katdaddimd I am accused of hating blacks. I am not here because I hate blacks. You do not have to be black to understand that there is discrimination in America. We are a melting pot of many cultures. It angers me that somebody in the klan or some Nazi group tells me that I need to join them. It also angers me when I am hated because I am white by some blacks. If we cannot have a democracy in America we can't build it anywhere else. The mess is in our own backyard. The mess of racism.
@TDS4UT Then why are you purposely seeking out people who hate you? You're not making much of a case and you're fighting a losing battle. People are people. You can show them through action what it's like to not be racist, but you can't harangue them incessantly and expect immediate change. As long as there are at least two people in the world, there will be prejudice. Let it go.
@katdaddimd On election day, I was cut off coming out of the grocery store. A black driver yelled at me "voted for McCain, didn't you?" America has become polarized between black and white. The race war is coming.
@katdaddimd I learn from my enemies. Believe it or not, there is some truth to what these haters have to say. They have just become twisted as to what the problem really is and what the answer is. I understand where the hatred comes from. Slavery was wrong. The racism that followed was wrong and continues today. But the answer is not to blame a race for the problem, nor is the answer to hate a race for the problem. Two wrongs don't make a right.
@katdaddimd It is interesting to find out how people's minds work. What makes them tick. If I ask the black teenager why he stares at me with a frown he could have a hand gun under the pocket of his hoodie. If I have a discussion about racism at work, I could lose my job.
@TDS4UT Or he could just be upset generally and not even noticing you. He could just have his cell phone in his hoodie. AND, most people don't want to have discussions about racism at work. Stop bringing it up.
@katdaddimd What I have learned is that these black racists believe Jesus to be black and the Jews who killed Jesus were "fake Jews" and either mixed race or Caucasian. What seems to be the only redeeming quality about Jesus for these black racists is Jesus skin color. What I have also found is that white supremacists believe Jesus to be white, an Aryan. Both groups are obsessed with Jesus skin color and could care less about his teachings.
@TDS4UT Tons of people, be they so-called racist or not, is obsessed with what Jesus looked like- why do you think there are so many renderings of him? This is where
@ThePerfectBlack100 Thats bullshit too. What about the Jews? They are not white. And the Asians. And the Latinos. "The Sand Niggers got Malcom." That was a quote by a black guy after Malcom X was assassinated. The Sand Niggers. Well I guess it's okay for blacks to call someone else a nigger, even someone of a different race. "Mother fucking Irish just a bunch of White Niggers." So Muslims are Sand Niggers. Irish are white niggers. Diversity at its finest.
@TDS4UT who said the "sand niggers" got malcom give me the person and what forum that was said white devil. Secondly the fake jews are what they look like and Irish fuck them and all other white people deal with what I said bitch yeah I am racist against whites and only whites so what
@ThePerfectBlack100 Jesse Jackson said "we all know it was the Sand Niggers that got Malcom." Louis Farrakhan also refers to Muslims as "those sand niggers who killed our Brother Malcom and are just Jews with sheets on their heads." Do you believe that Jesus is black and that the fake Jews killed him? Do you believe that the true Israelites are black?
@ellorac09 Jump of a bridge devil. Yeah so what. I am racist against white supremacist I have caused you mother fuckers much pain So what bitch, you must have thought this was a one sided thing People like me to equal out the racist skin heads and klans men.We are reacting Before you say it, yeah I am racist but only against white devils and no one else but white devils so what big deal
@ThePerfectBlack100 There are probably fewer members of the Ku Klux Klan today than there are black members of the New Black Panther Party. I am not a klansman. In fact have been harassed many times for people assuming that I am a "nigger lover." Down south I am called a Yankee. I am told that people like me up North are responsible for freeing people like you. And the whites who owned black slaves also had Irish servants. Don't blame me for slavery just because of my peckerwood skin.
@ThePerfectBlack100 Was this the peckerwood cracker that you meant to be talking to? I am here, Huckleberry. You got something to say to me then say it. With Obama as President that's one less thing for the Grape Soda jerks to whine about. Its slavery this and it's racism that. Its all white people's fault. Stop smoking crack, and watching white chick porn all day long. Go out and get a job. Yo momma eats kitty litter.
@TDS4UT And I forgot to mention the fact that there are no black members of the KKK. That's just stupid. KKK members do not associate with blacks let alone date and marry them. Again, stupid. You said yourself that you can't relate and don't know anything about it so maybe you should stop commenting on something that you don't know shit about. I'm not some angry black person who is out to get the white man I just don't like when people downplay racism because they are ignorant and blind to it.
@ellorac09 Do not try to get that devil to see your humanity why people always trying to get water from stone fuck his pain You see how he feels about ours
@ThePerfectBlack100 You're the devil. You're the racist devil. I'll be you rape all the white women and kill every white man that enters your neighborhood. I'd hate to be a little kid getting bused into your racist neighborhood to be cut up with your stiletto or beaten with a pair of brass knuckles you gangster. You have about as much humanity in you as a gorilla. Too bad Billie was not alive to slap your face. You are no better than a klansman with a tan.
@ellorac09 Racism is not defined as white hatred for blacks. There is racial violence going on every single day of blacks attacking whites simply because of skin color. And blacks say they cannot be racist because they do not have the power. We've got a Black President now. How much more power do you need? Every job in the US is now under an affirmative action quota including the Presidency. Do we need to make Obama a dictator before you admit your racism?
@TDS4UT Please don't think just because President Barack Obama is in the office in the United States of America that it erases the fact that racism exist. Racism is alive & it's like a cancer... It kills everyone!! Even the person caring it... slowly but surely. You may not see it or haven't experienced it, but I have and I'm 28yrs old & I pray my child, my niece, & my nephews will never experience it.
@kshay578 Even if blacks took every single white person in America and stuck them into the gas chambers that would erase racism. Racism like cancer effects many races. Blacks will attack other blacks who are friendly to whites, or who marry a white spouse and treat them as if they have done something wrong.
Before Obama was elected many blacks said "a black man will never be President." So now that's no longer true. Obama would not have been elected on black votes alone.
@TDS4UT Obama is half white, a little back and the rest arab....that is from what I have seen and read. Some people say that Obama is the reason we are going down hill as a country. I don't think that is exactly true although that may be a little bit of the problem. If we don't get to work and save our country we are going to be in a worse mess before the year is gone.
@kshay578 I have heard many insults thrown in my face. Peckerwood. Cracker. Paste face. Nigger Lover. Nigger lover? That is what I am called in Oklahoma and Alabama. I am also called a Yankee in a derogatory way. "Y'all set the niggers free." So although blacks blame me for slavery, Southerners blame my Yankee ass for freeing the slaves. Funny that.
@kshay578 My girlfriend has friends who are a bi-racial couple. He is black. She is Jewish. One of those "fake Jews" that were mentioned earlier. They have a son who is about 18 months old, a little boy who is mixed race. Now that boy doesn't know yet about racism. He knows me as a big boy like his dad. He loves my girlfriend. He is too little to understand racism but in his innocence he teaches a lesson to all of us.
this woman is such an inspiration. although im white, and this sing is about racisim towards blacks, it just shows how anyone has the right to stand up for what they believe in. this woman has showed me how to live life in a strong positive way and not let anyone put me down :)
Billie was first introduced tot he song at Cafe Society in the mid to latter 1930s. She didn't immediately take to the song. It must have taken such courage to sing it then. They are such powerful lyrics.
We are all so rewarded with this live performance. Bless her soul.
@mrmitch hey buddy, there has always been good mixed with the bad. I remember the music from the 1960s. some of the best ever as well as the stupidest came out of that era. It is all up to you what you choose to listen to. Billie's music is real and immortal.
I love how this kind of old things, great thing, just keep going through the time. I hope in the future sometimes, the blues, jazz and this kind of music comeback strong how was in the '20, '30, '40 and '50.
They think kim kardashian marriage was controversial or "risky" Try being an african american women, singing about lychning on national tv infront of white america, an isssue widley known but never mentioned. Her career and her life was put on the line when she sang this song. Now THAT is risky
Billie Holiday was an incredible, unforgettable, iconic talent. This post is about her, not our views on class, race, religion or society. We should all thank Mousieur Baudelaire for taking the time to post this amazing video. I think Ms.Holiday would be most disappointed by most of these comments.
@haloguypop311 Maybe the strange fruit were hanging testicles? This drunken, promiscuous, singing slut sure did partake of the strange fruit from the hanging testicles every chance she got.
@flappospammo You follow me around youtube, my own personal butt monkey, licking my asshole after every shit I take on your whore mother, and I am the one with issues?
i just enjoy fucking arrogant aggressive idiots like you up. You're pretty fucking tough from behind your shitty fucking keyboard , dumbfuck.
"For ANYONE that posts as much as you do on the net, it's an easy layup to get your IP address. Then of course, anyone who has friends in law enforcement can look up your home address"
That sounds like harassment to me. Internet harassment aka cyberstalking is an actual crime ya know.
@flappospammo Actually, it's advice. There are people out here beyond cyberspace, in the real world; treacherous, crafty, resourceful people, who can do exactly what I described. You mst be very very carefuly when you sit with your faggot ass behind what you THINK is a cloak of anonimity, that you THINK you cannot be accountable for what you write on the net. You must THINK.. "do I want this guy at my doorstep" before you threaten and disrespect because it has happened and can happen again.
@flappospammo Arrogance? I've told you 10 times exactly where you can find me 365/7 between 7 and 9 AM and you've shown absolutely no interest in repeating your disrespect face to face. You haven't shown up yet, when the fuck are you coming? Who owns who, you fucking wuss. You're nothing but a little fucking girl with a whore of a mother and a fag of a father
@flappospammo Of course I want you to show up, Fag. That's why I only told you 10 times where you can find me. I want to see if you have the balls to sign a waiver and step into the ring with me. Then we can play a real game, with your whore of a mother as the fucking monkey in the middle, jizz pouring out of her foul cunt..
@flappospammo You don't need to play these guessing games, fucko. Just show up with your whore mother and I'll show you my ID while I'm loading up the bitch for you.
@flappospammo PLUS, you left quite a trail on the internet as to who you are and where you are. You don't realize that yet, you stupid fuck. For ANYONE that posts as much as you do on the net, it's an easy layup to get your IP address. Then of course, anyone who has friends in law enforcement can look up your home address. You should do well to remember that when you start a blood feud with unknown entities. There MIGHT come a day when you are accountable for your words, I can assure you, fool.
I wonder how Billie would react to what is going on today. Bill Cosby said some pretty nasty things about what is going on now. I wonder if the New Black Panthers are going to go around with nightsticks at the voting precincts to beat on minority voters that refuse to vote for Obama. You talk about things that happened 60 years ago but deny what's happening today. You can't blame it on Fox Jews and deny it exists. Racism is not limited to white attacks on blacks.
True down deep in the kidneys... The greatest interpreter from the cerebellum to the heart and then settles down deep into your soul. I love you Billie Holiday for teaching me about music as inspired by God,the true Composer and life giver. Your voice is simply pain and joy. Happy to feel and cry for you. I love you Billie
@wiccanmoonman is ignorant, as well as uneducated about the religion that is contained in his name. He does not represent Wiccan's, spiritualists', or pagans' anywhere.
warren4570 1 day ago
@wiccanmoonman what the hell is wrong with you?
Stawiarz1234 2 days ago
The video and sound quality sucks!
wiccanmoonman 3 days ago
@wiccanmoonman its because this was recorded on a proper vinyl, in the good days when music was about the meaning and the voice not all the editing and auto tune, if you don't like it, why comment? (by the way, i'm not an old lady who was alive when billie holliday was...i'm 14. i just appreciate good music)
laurapassau123 2 days ago 2
@laurapassau123 It was a joke retard go kill yourself now.
wiccanmoonman 2 days ago
This song is so strongly visual... listening to it automatically evocates images, dark and painful images >.<...
Temarioneesama 5 days ago 5
@Temarioneesama I agree like the dark being subjected to pain by the evil light right
ThePerfectBlack100 5 days ago
So busy arguing about racism we didn't notice the weird words incredibly quiet at the end of the song..
Aaku13 6 days ago 3
beautiful
CMloveify 6 days ago
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Good interpretation, but I don't think her voice is as incredible as those of Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and even Amy Winehouse.
vintagediscodude 6 days ago
I thought the purpose of the comment section was to comment on the video playing and not to compare which race is the most racist and why. Who does that? Especially in 2012? Grow up.... Love Billie Holiday! Her voice gives me chills every time I hear her.
imsotarable 6 days ago 3
Not too many people know all their own ancestry anyway, this is an amazing tragic truthful song about history, a beautiful and talented singer love you Billie
carrolcoulter 6 days ago
youtube should just make an app where you click on a comment and it shows that whole conversation from the very beggining, i mean do you know how long it toke me to find all of these conversations?
TiaHearts98 6 days ago
There is one child left of American slaves. Do you think she's been bitter 112 years?
paulj0557 1 week ago
@paulj0557 I don't know. Is that a You Tube video. The people that are actual victims of discrimination like that are not bitter or prejudiced. People are people and everyone reacts differently. I live in Boston so the idea of lynching a black is about as foreign to me as the terrorism that goes on in the Middle East. Its like an entirely different country down South. Well it was the Confederate States of America once.
TDS4UT 6 days ago
going on ipod
zadreeko510 1 week ago
In Art Survey, we're doing a whole lesson on this song and the meaning about it. It's really awful what happened to the blacks back then.
MissJenniferVT 1 week ago 2
I feel like crying when i see how she feels what she sings...it's horrible to what happened to them... :'(
dikshou22 1 week ago
Depressing but true. A huge mark in history. If this didnt happen racism may not have existed
bluesmurf104 1 week ago 2
The word Race in itself is a stupid word,it is a lie.Race was a term coined to differentiate/segregate people.unfortunately it will always exist. I applaud any person,no matter the colour of your skin,if you choose to overcome racism.We are all victims of what we call racism,not only the people who are subject to the racism,but the people who choose to be racist,They are a victim of their own opinions and despite knowing that they will hurt other people they still choose to air those opinions.
clanat01 1 week ago
@clanat01 When people make statements like "I hate all of you. You as an entire race of responsible for this and that. You are the bad guys." You can apply that to any race or any ethnic group or religion. The reasoning for the hatred is a reaction to past wrongdoings. Hitler blamed Germany's problems on the Jews. And just because lots of people agreed with him didn't make it right.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
BILLIE HOLIDAY DIDNT WRITE THE SONG! A WHITE MAN DID! DUMMIES!
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@jasminechughes i dont get your point
abbonent 1 week ago
@jasminechughes Stop it. That song was pretty much written for her in mind. The man who wrote that song was Jewish, not white.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Jew is a religion not a race Hebrews are a race and today's jews are not hebrews
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Well Perfect Black I think it is a matter of semantics. Judaism is not like Christianity in which a person can easily convert to Judaism and be accepted as a full fledged member of the religion. In Orthodox Judaism a person must be born of a Jewish mother in order to be a true Jew. Anyone can convert to Judaism but those persons are still considered to be converts also known as the Goyem. The Jews come from the 12 Tribes of Israel that followed to Jesus Christ
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Would you consider Jesus Christ to be a Hebrew, Israelite from the 12 Tribes or someone similar to today's Jews, sort of a mix of Caucasian and Semite?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
It's always the negative comments and arguments that always have to ruin the song. Such a disappointment.
JasmineeBites 1 week ago
@JasmineeBites You do not have to read a comment that you do not like. There were many people who did not care for Billie Holiday's song. They preferred that she just sing love songs and this song was considered to be stirring up trouble. I am sorry that there are people in this world that do not share your opinions on everything. But cyber lynching isn't the answer. Is it?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
Billie died at a relatively young age, still in the prime of her life. Drug addiction and alcohol abuse did not help her health. But that should not cast a shadow on the greatness of this woman. And when she sang this song she was indeed showing the greatness of who she was. It was daring for her to sing this song and some radio stations refused to play it. It is about Freedom of Expression. So if you don't like what I have to say, don't tell me to shut up. You can choose not to read it.
TDS4UT 1 week ago 32
@TDS4UT fuck you and all white people why are you crying you were saying blacks are racist against whites well I am telling you yeah I am racist against whites and only whites
so what
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Fuck you and stop acting stupid. Hate me because I am a stupid person but don't hate me because of the color of my skin. If you want to hate me that is your choice. Just don't block out an entire race. Do I look like the King of the White People to you? I don't represent an entire race. There are German Aryans who think that I am from a lesser ethnic group and lesser than they are on the food chain. The Brits have looked down upon the Irish for centuries. Get over it.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT I am not british or German so who gives a dam I can feel how I want to feel you need to speak to your people because it is falling on death ears with me
ThePerfectBlack100 6 days ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 My point is that there is no real unity with the white race. The English hate the Irish. The French hate the Italians. The Greeks hate the Eastern Europeans. And everybody hates the Jews. If all the blacks went back to Africa or were all dead there would still be racism and ethnic fighting over who is better than someone else.
I am sure there are blacks who commit violence against blacks. Its dumb and it needs to stop.
TDS4UT 6 days ago
@TDS4UT I do not hate hebrews I only dislike the fake jews that helen thomas was talking about
ThePerfectBlack100 6 days ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Thanks for the citation. Would the Hebrews be the Black Israelites like Jesus? And the fake Jews are the European, mixed race Semite-Caucasian Jews that crucified Christ? Herod favored the Romans because he was part European himself. Jesus and his early followers were black. The Pharisees that crucified Jesus were white or mixed race. Is that correct?
TDS4UT 6 days ago
@TDS4UT yeah we all know caucasus people are from the "Middle East"
ThePerfectBlack100 6 days ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Semites are the people from the Middle East. Caucasians are from India and Tibet and migrated Northwest to Europe. Whether Jesus was a Negro or a Semite is a matter of debate.
TDS4UT 6 days ago
@TDS4UT wow that was bullshit
ThePerfectBlack100 6 days ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 What's bullshit my dude? Do you think Jesus was Caucasian, Semite, or Negro? Maybe you think I am talking shit because you have your head so far up your own ass all you see is shit. What do you need for a citation? The Bible. Talking to you is like educating a monkey. I talk to you. You throw your shit back at me.
TDS4UT 5 days ago
@TDS4UT The dude you white people call Jesus Name was Yeshu. Dr.Blumenbach who was a German scientist in the 1800's stated that the caucasus was were whites could draw the line claiming indigenous racial stock.He stated that their were 3 types of races Negroid produced the Mongoloid and they produced the Caucasoid. The woolly haired "Negroid" is what would be more exact in describing the original Hebrews they married Ethiopians Not Anglos.Yeshu seeked refuge in Africa not Europe
ThePerfectBlack100 5 days ago
@TDS4UT Jesus is a fictional character.
wiccanmoonman 3 days ago
@wiccanmoonman get a life. I'm 17. I like all Jazz and Pop (Lady gaga, Amy winehouse, Billie Holiday, Ella, Etta James) I'm a Big Little Monster. What I'm trying to tell u? This really a Good music (even with young boy like me)
G4G4M0nst3r 1 day ago
@TDS4UT I thought this song was about how white man hung black people from trees. Bloody and all, they'd have parties around it. But then again, many meanings to this song.
TheJackson4eva 6 hours ago
@TheJackson4eva That is the only meaning to the song. It is a song about lynching. Which was done by mostly southern white man to black men. Billie did not hate white people. Jazz musicians were the pioneers of positive race relations.
PatrickNM57 3 hours ago
I have been asked why am I here. Of course, I am a fan of Ms Billie Holiday, one of the greatest woman jazz singers of all time. I am also here because I like controversial songs. And one of the controversial favorite subjects of mine is Racism in America. I remember hearing this song in school and now it is in my collection of jazz recordings.
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BLONDDOG20 1 week ago
I cry every time I hear this song...I can't believe what those before me had to endure...
dearest182 1 week ago
WHATS THE POINT OF THIS SONG?
Sarah43va 1 week ago
@Sarah43va She's talking about lynching's in, mostly, southern america between the civil war and the civil rights movement :)
McSFraNtic71 1 week ago
@McSFraNtic71 lynching?
Sarah43va 1 week ago
@Sarah43va I believe the "politically correct" definition is: when a group of people kill a person without giving them a fair trial. Basically people would go out in mobs, gather anyone they didn't like, and sentence them to death on trumped up charges. Many were african americans after the civil war
McSFraNtic71 1 week ago
@Sarah43va Do you not understand?
gazrobbo53 1 week ago
@gazrobbo53 i dont understand and wats lynching?
Sarah43va 1 week ago
@Sarah43va What the hell you mean, "WHATS THE POINT OF THIS SONG?" it's quite obvious from the lyrics, pay attention. Use your brain and decipher the message. To end this, I recommend that you put much more thought into your next comment regarding this song.
lightgj 1 week ago
@Sarah43va You can look up Wikipedia for that. The strange fruit is the dead bodies hanging by the neck from the trees. The Ku Klux Klan went around lynching blacks that they did not like. Sometimes a black person might be trying to organize blacks in a civil rights march or to join a labor union. Sometimes the KKK would pick out a black person at random- for no reason other than being black- and hang that person. The writer was not Billie but it comes from the agrarian culture of seeing
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@Sarah43va What the heck kinda fruit's comin out of that tree? Bares no resemblance to the leaves or the fruit. My grandmother was from Alabama, my only branch of my family living in America during the Civil War. She would say things like "this Yankee soil don't take to my pea seeds." Nana could cook anything. Peas like I never tasted in my life. She taught me how to play the piano. She had black friends because she was Southern like them. Yankees wouldn't socialize with Negroes, the coloreds.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@Sarah43va My point is that you have to see a Southern person looking at the tree and saying "Looky here. What's that strange fruit coming out them poplar trees?" Then you look closer and you see the bodies hanging by the necks. That is the horror of it. But I don't think that Billie meant it as an attack on the South, although she talks about the "strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees" and the "gallant South." Racism like slavery is not a Southern problem- its an American problem
TDS4UT 1 week ago
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mvigno2 1 week ago
If anyone wants to believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was black, they have that right. God bless them, and everyone else with brains to end human exploitation - everywhere.
MiserableOldFart 1 week ago
@MiserableOldFart But that's not what its about and it doesn't end there. Jesus is black. Jesus is a Black Israelite as all black people are. The Africans. The Jews that killed Jesus are believed to be white and as they are white are believed to be the fake Jews, not the True Israelites. Heaven is only a place for black people, sort of like the second floor balcony of an old movie theater.
Hell is the place for Jews and white people. We are the devils. The answer is to kill us. Bless that?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
Instead of saying "don't be mean to black ppl, don't be mean to white people", you should say don't be mean to PEOPLE alltogether, cause that is what we are
Lilyfloss 1 week ago
@Lilyfloss What the definition of Racism in America has become is "don't be mean to black people." It does not include whites. It doesn't include Jews. That is the hypocrisy of it.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
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@TDS4UT what ever white devil you was looking for a black man who is racist against whites and only whites and you found one fuck all white people
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Maybe that would be the answer for you. Now I have been told to watch my language here. But maybe the answer for you is to date a white girlfriend, marry a white wife, and have a few mixed race babies. My ugly face won't convince you. But maybe a sexy white girl might.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
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@TDS4UT shut the fuck up.Did I say anything about slavery and end the Nazi and klan before you try to change people like me minds because as long as they exist I exist so like I said I am racist against white devils and only white devils suck it up with your racist ass on a video talking about balcks being lynched and crying about the white mans problems
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 There were white slaves. There were whites who were also lynched. There were black slave owners. There were blacks who were members of the klan. How long are you going to blame your problems on whites? Its not my fault you didn't get where you want to go in life.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT u out your damn mind
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 And your not the first person to tell me that. But I'll bet you dollars to donuts that when people said you would see a black man as President people would say that you were out of your mind. How about seeing the slaves free? If we have black men going around with chips on their shoulders hating whites and wanting to kill them that's not what Dr King had in mind at all. If you won't listen to me- listen to him. That man died for you. This is how you thank him.
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TDS4UT 1 week ago
If I were to post comments on YouTube like "I hate blacks." "I hate niggers." "You niggers are the devil" and to join other white people on a page and say "don't waste your time talking to that nigger devil. They are evil." I would be accused of cyber bullying and racism.
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TDS4UT 1 week ago
Why is it that blacks refuse to accept that blacks can be racist? Calling themselves nigger isn't racist but the use of the word nigger is not limited to blacks alone. But blacks say that even when they beat on another race, it cannot be racism because they do not have any economic power. And its always the white man's fault.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
what amazing song, what awesome poetry to describe one of the most brutal times in American history. Billie you were ahead of your time, today 2012 you are so current. thank you for your talent.
RBRodas 2 weeks ago 2
@RBRodas This song was written by a Jewish man. That was at a time when blacks and Jews were fairly tolerant of each other. Now the belief is that Jesus was black and that the white Jews, the Zionists, killed Jesus the true Black Israelite. The crucifixion was seen as a type of a lynching. I find it rather sad that many blacks today only relate to Jesus by his skin color and his teachings are of no use for today's blacks.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
Straziante, quasi insostenibile interpretazione. Stupenda. Perchè al mondo ci deve essere sempre tanto dolore?
sonopaolotorre 2 weeks ago
studied the african american civil rights movement when i was 16 and it made me want to do History at university. I'm doing a module on it now at uni & I hope to do my dissertation on it. just got a First on the first essay towards my final degree grade. her passion and her pain in this song is what i saw in the words i read from books.. and in other music like this. beautiful, brave, heart wrenching. you can't explain to people the pain you felt but you can give them an idea of it through music
xProudxIrishxGirlx 2 weeks ago
@xProudxIrishxGirlx I would advise you to check out some of Sydney Portier's early movies. He did one where he was a union steward and he went South to work. At first he swore off getting involved in the union but he saw that the workers down South were exploited. He also saw much more severe racism down South. Its a great movie for that time period. I think Portier did more than one race issue movie.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT sounds interesting i'll look it up :)
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@TDS4UT There have actually been several lynchings in the past 10 to 15 years alone. It is still done in the south especially. Nobody talks about because they either don't care or they want to cover it up so people will believe that there isn't still racism.
ellorac09 1 week ago
@ellorac09 That's a bunch of bullshit. Name a lynching of any black within the past ten years? And please do not include convicted criminals being executed as "lynchings." Because those have been reported on the news, 24/7. What people believe is that there isn't any racism of blacks against whites.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT First of all I wasnt trying to challenge you. Every race has someone who doesnt like them because of their race. I wasnt trying to deny that. All I was trying to do was bring awareness to the fact that it does still happen it just happens in the dark. Im only 20 and I know of 5 different times when someone was lynched in my lifetime. One of them was a friend of mine and he was only 15. He wasnt a criminal or anything. That was only 7 years ago. So now you know how young people can relate
ellorac09 1 week ago
@ellorac09 And you can't even name one of them. I see. Well I know of at least 50 times over the past 12 months in which black racists have perpetrated racial attacks against white people. So don't give me that bullshit about how blacks cannot be racist because they don't have any power.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT I hate white people so what at least I do not hate every other race on the planet like whites do I just hate you pale face mother fuckers
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 I have to tell you, for your own good, that hate is not productive. You're losing the ability to recognize real evil when you assign a look to it. Character can't be seen with the eyes, don't be fooled. Your hatred will betray you.
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd I am not a devil simply because I am white. So I am a pale faced mother fucker. I am sure that Billie is rolling over in her grave somewhere seeing the comments from this dumbass racist.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT why do you and others have to use such language?
lucas12345381 1 week ago
@lucas12345381 What language is that? I have come to know what I am called. Peckerwood. Cracker. Paste Face. Honky. I can go on and on. I hear the N word used every time I take a train or a bus. "Hey nigger, what's up?" I say it even as a point of reference and you have a problem with it. Dr Dre made a fortune on the N word. Got a problem with him too?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT The best I can tell you is to resist the urge to explain yourself to people online. The people who matter to you know your character and people who are open to knowing you will learn who you are as well. The rest... ef 'em. The best that you can do is to be sure that you don't let someone else's issues change who you are.
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd I am accused of hating blacks. I am not here because I hate blacks. You do not have to be black to understand that there is discrimination in America. We are a melting pot of many cultures. It angers me that somebody in the klan or some Nazi group tells me that I need to join them. It also angers me when I am hated because I am white by some blacks. If we cannot have a democracy in America we can't build it anywhere else. The mess is in our own backyard. The mess of racism.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Then why are you purposely seeking out people who hate you? You're not making much of a case and you're fighting a losing battle. People are people. You can show them through action what it's like to not be racist, but you can't harangue them incessantly and expect immediate change. As long as there are at least two people in the world, there will be prejudice. Let it go.
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd On election day, I was cut off coming out of the grocery store. A black driver yelled at me "voted for McCain, didn't you?" America has become polarized between black and white. The race war is coming.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@katdaddimd I learn from my enemies. Believe it or not, there is some truth to what these haters have to say. They have just become twisted as to what the problem really is and what the answer is. I understand where the hatred comes from. Slavery was wrong. The racism that followed was wrong and continues today. But the answer is not to blame a race for the problem, nor is the answer to hate a race for the problem. Two wrongs don't make a right.
TDS4UT 1 week ago 15
@TDS4UT In other words: don't take it personally.
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd It is interesting to find out how people's minds work. What makes them tick. If I ask the black teenager why he stares at me with a frown he could have a hand gun under the pocket of his hoodie. If I have a discussion about racism at work, I could lose my job.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Or he could just be upset generally and not even noticing you. He could just have his cell phone in his hoodie. AND, most people don't want to have discussions about racism at work. Stop bringing it up.
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd What I have learned is that these black racists believe Jesus to be black and the Jews who killed Jesus were "fake Jews" and either mixed race or Caucasian. What seems to be the only redeeming quality about Jesus for these black racists is Jesus skin color. What I have also found is that white supremacists believe Jesus to be white, an Aryan. Both groups are obsessed with Jesus skin color and could care less about his teachings.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Tons of people, be they so-called racist or not, is obsessed with what Jesus looked like- why do you think there are so many renderings of him? This is where
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@katdaddimd excuse the typo- meant to say "are obsessed"
katdaddimd 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Thats bullshit too. What about the Jews? They are not white. And the Asians. And the Latinos. "The Sand Niggers got Malcom." That was a quote by a black guy after Malcom X was assassinated. The Sand Niggers. Well I guess it's okay for blacks to call someone else a nigger, even someone of a different race. "Mother fucking Irish just a bunch of White Niggers." So Muslims are Sand Niggers. Irish are white niggers. Diversity at its finest.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT who said the "sand niggers" got malcom give me the person and what forum that was said white devil. Secondly the fake jews are what they look like and Irish fuck them and all other white people deal with what I said bitch yeah I am racist against whites and only whites so what
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Jesse Jackson said "we all know it was the Sand Niggers that got Malcom." Louis Farrakhan also refers to Muslims as "those sand niggers who killed our Brother Malcom and are just Jews with sheets on their heads." Do you believe that Jesus is black and that the fake Jews killed him? Do you believe that the true Israelites are black?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 AND WHO CARES LOL HATER HATE ON!
brandys78 1 week ago
@brandys78 so cracka why leave a comment
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ellorac09 Jump of a bridge devil. Yeah so what. I am racist against white supremacist I have caused you mother fuckers much pain So what bitch, you must have thought this was a one sided thing People like me to equal out the racist skin heads and klans men.We are reacting Before you say it, yeah I am racist but only against white devils and no one else but white devils so what big deal
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 There are probably fewer members of the Ku Klux Klan today than there are black members of the New Black Panther Party. I am not a klansman. In fact have been harassed many times for people assuming that I am a "nigger lover." Down south I am called a Yankee. I am told that people like me up North are responsible for freeing people like you. And the whites who owned black slaves also had Irish servants. Don't blame me for slavery just because of my peckerwood skin.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@ellorac09 My bad I was not talking to you
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 Was this the peckerwood cracker that you meant to be talking to? I am here, Huckleberry. You got something to say to me then say it. With Obama as President that's one less thing for the Grape Soda jerks to whine about. Its slavery this and it's racism that. Its all white people's fault. Stop smoking crack, and watching white chick porn all day long. Go out and get a job. Yo momma eats kitty litter.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT And I forgot to mention the fact that there are no black members of the KKK. That's just stupid. KKK members do not associate with blacks let alone date and marry them. Again, stupid. You said yourself that you can't relate and don't know anything about it so maybe you should stop commenting on something that you don't know shit about. I'm not some angry black person who is out to get the white man I just don't like when people downplay racism because they are ignorant and blind to it.
ellorac09 1 week ago
@ellorac09 Do not try to get that devil to see your humanity why people always trying to get water from stone fuck his pain You see how he feels about ours
ThePerfectBlack100 1 week ago
@ThePerfectBlack100 You're the devil. You're the racist devil. I'll be you rape all the white women and kill every white man that enters your neighborhood. I'd hate to be a little kid getting bused into your racist neighborhood to be cut up with your stiletto or beaten with a pair of brass knuckles you gangster. You have about as much humanity in you as a gorilla. Too bad Billie was not alive to slap your face. You are no better than a klansman with a tan.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@ellorac09 Racism is not defined as white hatred for blacks. There is racial violence going on every single day of blacks attacking whites simply because of skin color. And blacks say they cannot be racist because they do not have the power. We've got a Black President now. How much more power do you need? Every job in the US is now under an affirmative action quota including the Presidency. Do we need to make Obama a dictator before you admit your racism?
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Please don't think just because President Barack Obama is in the office in the United States of America that it erases the fact that racism exist. Racism is alive & it's like a cancer... It kills everyone!! Even the person caring it... slowly but surely. You may not see it or haven't experienced it, but I have and I'm 28yrs old & I pray my child, my niece, & my nephews will never experience it.
kshay578 1 week ago
@kshay578 Even if blacks took every single white person in America and stuck them into the gas chambers that would erase racism. Racism like cancer effects many races. Blacks will attack other blacks who are friendly to whites, or who marry a white spouse and treat them as if they have done something wrong.
Before Obama was elected many blacks said "a black man will never be President." So now that's no longer true. Obama would not have been elected on black votes alone.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@TDS4UT Obama is half white, a little back and the rest arab....that is from what I have seen and read. Some people say that Obama is the reason we are going down hill as a country. I don't think that is exactly true although that may be a little bit of the problem. If we don't get to work and save our country we are going to be in a worse mess before the year is gone.
lucas12345381 1 week ago
@kshay578 I have heard many insults thrown in my face. Peckerwood. Cracker. Paste face. Nigger Lover. Nigger lover? That is what I am called in Oklahoma and Alabama. I am also called a Yankee in a derogatory way. "Y'all set the niggers free." So although blacks blame me for slavery, Southerners blame my Yankee ass for freeing the slaves. Funny that.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
@kshay578 My girlfriend has friends who are a bi-racial couple. He is black. She is Jewish. One of those "fake Jews" that were mentioned earlier. They have a son who is about 18 months old, a little boy who is mixed race. Now that boy doesn't know yet about racism. He knows me as a big boy like his dad. He loves my girlfriend. He is too little to understand racism but in his innocence he teaches a lesson to all of us.
TDS4UT 1 week ago
Doing this in art survey. Hate the song, BOT what it means.
TheInnovaBoss 2 weeks ago
writing a thesis paper on herr
MsPhillyGirlz 2 weeks ago
this woman is such an inspiration. although im white, and this sing is about racisim towards blacks, it just shows how anyone has the right to stand up for what they believe in. this woman has showed me how to live life in a strong positive way and not let anyone put me down :)
cutieEOM 2 weeks ago
what a woman
CrazyZombieChick69 2 weeks ago
Billie was first introduced tot he song at Cafe Society in the mid to latter 1930s. She didn't immediately take to the song. It must have taken such courage to sing it then. They are such powerful lyrics.
We are all so rewarded with this live performance. Bless her soul.
793willieb 2 weeks ago
i cant listen to this without tearing up. . paints such a vivid picture. .
pruddibadass 2 weeks ago
jim norton
filthyfew77 2 weeks ago
Jimmy, you make a valid point. I'm utterly disgusted to how awful music has become.
mrmitch 2 weeks ago
@mrmitch hey buddy, there has always been good mixed with the bad. I remember the music from the 1960s. some of the best ever as well as the stupidest came out of that era. It is all up to you what you choose to listen to. Billie's music is real and immortal.
793willieb 2 weeks ago
Who is this? We want Britney and GAGA... Not this nobody!!! Jimmy quit messing with us
socalpimp1974 2 weeks ago
JIM NORTON
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JaimeLaBonneMusi 2 weeks ago
I love how this kind of old things, great thing, just keep going through the time. I hope in the future sometimes, the blues, jazz and this kind of music comeback strong how was in the '20, '30, '40 and '50.
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TheJazzWorks 3 weeks ago
THIS SONG CREEPS ME OUT. I FEEL BAD THO. IM A BLACK PERSON AND ITS SAD :( MY DAD SHOWED ME THIS SONG AND POEM A FEW WEEKS AGO. :(
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Klassick1 3 weeks ago
Nice :)
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OttoLund 3 weeks ago
to the 259 people that don't like this... you either made a mistake or you have no sense of excellence...
DanielScottCampbell 4 weeks ago
They think kim kardashian marriage was controversial or "risky" Try being an african american women, singing about lychning on national tv infront of white america, an isssue widley known but never mentioned. Her career and her life was put on the line when she sang this song. Now THAT is risky
melissawellsback2bz 4 weeks ago 71
@melissawellsback2bz Wow. I never heard this song until @jimnorton on twitter talked about it. Your comment really is dead on. What an amazing song.
ChipHugger 2 weeks ago
@melissawellsback2bz
Sure was. It's still an amazing song and performance. And a reminder how some things have unfortunately NOT changed....
MuscleDaddyCMH 2 weeks ago
Billie Holiday was an incredible, unforgettable, iconic talent. This post is about her, not our views on class, race, religion or society. We should all thank Mousieur Baudelaire for taking the time to post this amazing video. I think Ms.Holiday would be most disappointed by most of these comments.
wvanderwahl 4 weeks ago 14
Can we all shut up and listen to the music? Jesus.
booskityluvable 4 weeks ago 4
She's a G
donessful 1 month ago
TDS4UT needs to shut up
Hellowkittty 1 month ago
so the strange fruit are dead black people hung from a tree. thats sad
haloguypop311 1 month ago
@haloguypop311 Maybe the strange fruit were hanging testicles? This drunken, promiscuous, singing slut sure did partake of the strange fruit from the hanging testicles every chance she got.
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
you at it again you virgin loser ?
according to you every woman's a slut - kid , you've got issues
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo You follow me around youtube, my own personal butt monkey, licking my asshole after every shit I take on your whore mother, and I am the one with issues?
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
i just enjoy fucking arrogant aggressive idiots like you up. You're pretty fucking tough from behind your shitty fucking keyboard , dumbfuck.
"For ANYONE that posts as much as you do on the net, it's an easy layup to get your IP address. Then of course, anyone who has friends in law enforcement can look up your home address"
That sounds like harassment to me. Internet harassment aka cyberstalking is an actual crime ya know.
Try doing some research , dumbass™
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo Actually, it's advice. There are people out here beyond cyberspace, in the real world; treacherous, crafty, resourceful people, who can do exactly what I described. You mst be very very carefuly when you sit with your faggot ass behind what you THINK is a cloak of anonimity, that you THINK you cannot be accountable for what you write on the net. You must THINK.. "do I want this guy at my doorstep" before you threaten and disrespect because it has happened and can happen again.
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
says the dork who spends all day making threats to anonymous posters on the net - dumbass - look at your last dozen or so posts - you want proof ?
fuck me , you really are thicker than pig shit
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo Arrogance? I've told you 10 times exactly where you can find me 365/7 between 7 and 9 AM and you've shown absolutely no interest in repeating your disrespect face to face. You haven't shown up yet, when the fuck are you coming? Who owns who, you fucking wuss. You're nothing but a little fucking girl with a whore of a mother and a fag of a father
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
-you've shown me your location , where you hang out every morning and even your name 'V'
and i'm the one who's easy to trace ? LOL
thx for that
..
thx for playing my game , shame you're fucking useless at it , like everything else
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo Of course I want you to show up, Fag. That's why I only told you 10 times where you can find me. I want to see if you have the balls to sign a waiver and step into the ring with me. Then we can play a real game, with your whore of a mother as the fucking monkey in the middle, jizz pouring out of her foul cunt..
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
Yawn
Can't you think of anything vaguely original apart from puerile childish your mom jokes ?
You really are a sad excuse for a hum a being.
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
Also V isn't your real name , is it ?
I know what is though SM
You silly fucking little child.. I told you not to mess with me ...
Now don't you have some piano to practice you lame owned cunt ?
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo You know nothing, you stupid schmuck. When are you coming to Syossett to throw down, you fucking wuss.
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo You don't need to play these guessing games, fucko. Just show up with your whore mother and I'll show you my ID while I'm loading up the bitch for you.
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@flappospammo PLUS, you left quite a trail on the internet as to who you are and where you are. You don't realize that yet, you stupid fuck. For ANYONE that posts as much as you do on the net, it's an easy layup to get your IP address. Then of course, anyone who has friends in law enforcement can look up your home address. You should do well to remember that when you start a blood feud with unknown entities. There MIGHT come a day when you are accountable for your words, I can assure you, fool.
Virtuosic1 4 weeks ago
@Virtuosic1
Kid , you're out of your fucking e-league , messing with me.
Believe me. LOL
You sound rattled.
You = OWNED™
flappospammo 4 weeks ago
I stand corrected. that was the story I was told as a child. Never read up because grownups always tell the truth:-)
Echerokee 1 month ago
I wonder how Billie would react to what is going on today. Bill Cosby said some pretty nasty things about what is going on now. I wonder if the New Black Panthers are going to go around with nightsticks at the voting precincts to beat on minority voters that refuse to vote for Obama. You talk about things that happened 60 years ago but deny what's happening today. You can't blame it on Fox Jews and deny it exists. Racism is not limited to white attacks on blacks.
TDS4UT 1 month ago
True down deep in the kidneys... The greatest interpreter from the cerebellum to the heart and then settles down deep into your soul. I love you Billie Holiday for teaching me about music as inspired by God,the true Composer and life giver. Your voice is simply pain and joy. Happy to feel and cry for you. I love you Billie
goodlookingantonio 1 month ago in playlist billie holiday blues