Once upon a time, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” used to be from trees with green leaves, a trunk and branches growing up from the ground splattered with red.
Today, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” is hanging from man-made trees with blue reflected all around.
But look! Isn’t that the old white cloth under the blue?
And aren’t those tall pointy white hats pushing out from under the official issued uniform?
Really strange and awful fruit, rapidly spreading the disease of racism all across the country.
Being covered up by fear – that fear keeping those who could act from doing so.
Why! Oh God, Why!
This strange fruit is is Black and female –
the fear is that riots will invade those lovely, green, middle-class communities.
Rather let the strange fruit multiply and just hang there in silence. Much better than to act. The sacrifice of the few for the many.
But doesn’t that spread? isn’t it happening more rapidly?
Terrorism?
Not from the Middle East!
White – Male – Conservative – with strings into the groups of old
The Klan, the Citizens Council, the neoNazi …………………….why bother with a list, you know the names
This isn’t simply racism – this is Racism and Sexism.
Life is becoming ever more strange and silent.
The silent majority is back and in control!
Let the media slip in little bits and pieces to make it sound less awful; less threatening; let us not place blame where it belongs, but obfuscate.
Won’t that protect those of us who count?
Homicide, murder, reduced to a paid vacation, sometimes called Administrative leave – which happens before exoneration.
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