THE SKIN THAT I'M IN

Strange Fruit

by Abel Meeropol

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop

 

Welcome to another web edition of THINKING OUT LOUD, and I'm your host, E. L. Pleasant. Thinking Out Loud, this is what every minority black person that makes up to and over one hundred thousands a year think of you and me.  That we’re holding on to and living in the past which is why we can’t move forward, when in fact, our past is the reason we are where we are and because of people that think like them.  These are the people that can live where they want see your kind and then say there is no racism and we don’t need affirmative action because we can go as far as our minds can take us, they did.  Maybe if we had taught our young of our past they would think twice before calling each other nigga/nigger and even have respect for one another.  The white men and women have done his and her job well with our help and yours, the so call wanna be and not reminded that they look like us for you know who you are every time you have to look in the mirror.  Those were our people and a part of us that hung there while they laugh and thought so little of our lives being nothing more than property to them, and we are to forget that these are the same people and pretend that there are just a few bad apples among us. The Bible said, “You would know them by the fruit they bare,” and what I see is no way strange to me.  For THINKINK OUT LOUD, I’m E. L. PLEASANT

 

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