Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Rare Live Footage of one of the firtst
anti rascism songs ever.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• singers
• billie
• holiday
• strange
• fruit
• antiracism
• black
• white

[TDS4UT]

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]

@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.

[G4G4M0nst3r]

@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)

[warren4570]

@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.

[Stawiarz1234]

@wiccanmoonman what the hell is wrong with you?

[wiccanmoonman]

@laurapassau123 It was a joke retard go kill yourself now.

[laurapassau123]

@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)

[wiccanmoonman]

@TDS4UT Jesus is a fictional character.

[wiccanmoonman]

The video and sound quality sucks!

[ThePerfectBlack100]

@Temarioneesama I agree like the dark being subjected to pain by the evil light right

[Temarioneesama]

This song is so strongly visual... listening to it automatically evocates images, dark and painful images >.<...

[ThePerfectBlack100]

@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