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To: thathamiltonwoman
"Strange Fruit" is a Communist theme. It was the beginning of the "civil rights" movement to convince blacks they were victims instead of over-comers and to drive them to revolution. Proof is that it was written by a white Communist.
14 posted on 06/18/2003 8:17:38 PM PDT by Deb (My tag can beat up your tag.)
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To: Deb
It was the beginning of the "civil rights" movement to convince blacks they were victims instead of over-comers and to drive them to revolution.

Oh please. I grew up in north Florida. The KKK burned crosses down the street from my house. The local police would have laughed at any complaint by a black against a white. There are still entire streets that show as continuous on maps, but have strange incompleted sections where they would have joined a black neighborhood to a white neighborhood. In my childhood, Jim Crow was the law, not a personal choice. We are damn lucky the civil rights movement was as successful as it was.

20 posted on 06/18/2003 8:49:03 PM PDT by js1138
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To: Deb
Strange fruit may be about lynching and not about Coommunism, (gee, we're not stupid!) but it is and has been a Communist anthem. And that's how they manage to fools some of us most of the time, I might add! (Hand wringing about "Racism" is what unites the extreme Right and the extreme Left in this country. Run for the hills, I say!) And even if it were only a pop Tin Pan Alley hit tune about lynching that would be quite pathetic, doncha think?
26 posted on 06/18/2003 8:59:46 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
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