Emmett Till and the stench of political mendacity

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Emmett Till and the stench of political mendacity

Thu, 03/05/2020 - 12:23
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“Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leave and blood at the root / Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.” WHEN BILLIE HOLIDAY SANG those words in 1939, she evoked the forlorn pain of black America, living constantly in the shadow of the lynching tree. She sang of the ugly, dark hearts in white men who hung that “strange fruit.”…

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