Strange Fruit

i'm not a vegetarian, but you just can't see the world like they do. We are just as much as animals as any other organism on this planet. The fact that we are the most "intelligent" has nothing to do with it.  Maybe they should do testing on you or your family? Oh no no that would be wrong because you're a little smarter then that monkey.... right?

"Strange Fruit" began as a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high-school teacher from the Bronx, about the lynching of two black men
Meeropol wrote "Strange Fruit" to express his horror at lynchings after seeing Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem in 1936 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine, he set Strange Fruit to music himself - Wikipedia

PS...his wife was NOT black.

not the same thing
cows are delicious

You idiot!!! How dare you compare the deaths of African Americans that were hung, burnt , castrated and beaten to Livestock!!! Insensitive bastard!

I agree! Comparing the brutalities which Blacks have suffered to animal deaths is extremely offensive. PETA had the audacity to do something similar: equate the Holocaust to livestock dying daily in slaughterhouses. You can be an animal lover, but these comparisons are severe injustices - not just to Blacks and Jews, but to all of humankind. I don't know what people are thinking sometimes when they make such remarks.

@frtw4428
Thank you!! I couldn't have said it better myself. As an African American this song moves me terribly and these idiots are comparing this injustice to bacon, ham and beef it's pathetic. And PETA I don't know what their issue is. Comparing perparing burgers to the Holocaust!! It makes me furious.

PETA doesn't really care about any animal "rights." They simply hate humanity. Their president opposes animal testing of any kind - even if it means a cure for cancer or AIDS. Incidentally, take a look at the comment made by jpmgmpj (a couple up from your first comment). It's a sad fact that lynchings still take place: the murders of James Byrd and Brandon McClelland come to mind. Hopefully racism soon ends up like the dinosaurs - extinct!

@purehermit
You are right. We always think of humans, but Purehermit is true, we kill animals just because we are hungry and THINK we need it (and that is not true)

The song was derived by a poem of a jewish man, who was married to a black woman. or so i heard. it's beautiful and yet shocking, even though we know all of this happened, seeing it like this makes it so much more real and depressing, Billie is TRULY, a voice of the ages. RIP Lady Day

Chills go up my spine...extremely eerie but very poetic. Great usage of metaphors & yet it all really happened =/