#strange fruit
Btw… Andra, Viola, and Chadwick was snubbed! But a heavy congrats to H.E.R, Daniel, Terrence J, and the Make Up Crew for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom!!! ✊☺️
Often times when I drive through a canopy of trees I am reminded of the not so distant past and the grim nature of the American Public as they crow with adoration after stringing up yet another negro. It’s like a tradition and once they are done and everyone is good and satisfied with the conditions under which a “lesser” being died, they all stop, and smile, and pose for the camera like a holiday photo.
Just cover it up, put a white sheet over it, pretend like it never happened, and change the name of the same game.
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Weird lemon contemplates a fly
Hexanchus citrus, the Zesty Sixgill Shark
Be not afraid of the weird lemon
Weird lemon is a good boi
Weird lemon wants your soul
Weird lemon serves the Swarm
Weird lemon sprouted fins
Weird lemon needed wings
I found a weird lemon and thought it needed eyes
This trailer gave me chills. Especially with Nina Simone’s version of Strange Fruit as the backing track.
For those wondering, the title is deliberate. (Birth of a Nation is also the title of D.W. Griffith’s incredibly racist 1915 silent film about the Civil War and the rise of the KKK).
At the Commodore Record Shop in New York, 1947. Note the great cover art on the Billie Holiday and Kid Ory releases.
Commodore was an American independent record label known for producing Dixieland jazz and swing. It is also remembered for releasing Billie Holiday’s hit “Strange Fruit”.
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30 Days of Pride Day 7- Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz and swing music singer, known for her distinctive phrasing and expressive, sometimes melancholy voice.
In 1939, after singing her song “Strange Fruit,” about the lynching of African-Americans, Holiday received a warning from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a government agency which lasted from 1930 to 1968, to never sing the song again. Holiday refused and kept singing the song. FBN commissioner Harry J. Anslinger thus pursued her for decades, going as far as to arrest and handcuff her for drug possession to her hospital bed while she was dying.
In her personal life, Holiday was openly bisexual throughout her career and was known to date prominent actresses of the time. Her posthumous awards include being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame, and she is widely regarded as being one of the greatest singers in history.
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