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Where can I watch it

Me.

@@moaraps8563 Hulu

Billie Holiday embodies the traits of a true "lady". She had very close friends who were every color, not letting the utter stupidity and smallness of Harry Anslinger to turn her into a racist herself. She wins, as a great artists who changes peoples' hearts and minds, whilst Anslinger turned to word Cannabis into marijuana, to imply and allude to Mexican field workers. He was a bigot and hateful racist who is despised all these years later, whilst Billie is a queen to Jazz musicians like me and lovers of art and music

Heart wrenching

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Such a sad life, sad song. ( 2024 Australia)

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My exact thought when I seen this video.. I heard it on the radio and wanted to listen to it again.

IIRC she knew that singing this song was going to lead to the end of her career. She was right, but she did it anyway because it was right.

Um... she's literally singing.

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Yes also she is after drugs as we can see in her eyes. Heroine was helping her living and made her die in the time she's singing this - 1959 year. She died in age 44. Watch film about her, very interesting. Anyway she pass through a lot in life and this song feels pain in her mouth and mind, strange fruit (hanging people) she really saw. I also saw hanging dead bodies from the trees too on the photos, something terrible...:( So I trully understand her pain

Hi beautiful JR... Billie Holiday Is absolutely amazing singer... My condolences if I invade your privacy, it's my pleasure to meet you, How are you doing? I hope I meet you in a pleasant mood..?

thanks, this helped in my essay

Hi beautiful JR👋

She's y very high I love her she had a very sad story about her MAY U R I P

Martin smith you being creepy af

Mary Freebed oh how I agree. We have to sit and listen to the beauty of the song and the pain of the truth. It hurts and we NEED to hear it.

How did she die?

Mint Mastering Congestive heart failure.

Mint Mastering Not exactly. Forced methadone withdrawal, courtesy of the authorities, who would not let the hospital she was in give her any more. I suppose congestive heart failure was the underlying condition. In any case, it was a cruel death, and deliberately so.

Mary Freebed yes. I had a feeling the generic answer was exactly that.

Her life was absolutely heart breaking. I recommend looking it up.

Wow you deleted my comment? But not the racist one.

@@TheBlackParty Truth is never "racist."

@@gdcat777 whats your "truth?" My truth is this has always been a racist country, with racist policies, and racist people.

@Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids 'Judeo Bolshevik' is a term created by nazis, just as 'cultural marxism/communism'. Are you a nazi, friend?

Hi i dodn't know she wrote an autobiography cna you tell me where can i find it

@@evok3226 google

@@grahamcampbell6613 thanks

@@grahamcampbell6613 Do you know the name of the autobiography? I googled it and only biographies come up!

can i please have the name of the book you read? I googled her autobiography, but only biographies come up!

My music teacher played this song for the class and... ugh. Something about a bunch of white kids going "eww omg!! don't play it again!!" Made me seethe

What is lynching?

@@Jacob-uz1oq murdering a person because they are black

@@Jacob-uz1oq hanging/killing of innocent black people by white mobs

Thanks to the republicans, the truth is not allowed to be taught anymore @ school. Teachers can be sued by white parents, if the teach this history.

You are right about Billie but Anslinger was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The FBI at the time was headed by a different racist.

Malik Crim Oh, yeah. Thanks for correcting me!

Casey5693 People didn't like the truth. So called religious people who committed these atrocities couldn't accept the realization that they were actually murdering an innocent person:( and deserved to go to hell.

He wasn't the head of the FBI.. It was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics

Billie as Angel Love her voice a Phenomenon 💜🕊👼🙏

@Michelle Reid - TRUTH

'What's done in the dark will always come to light.'

Facts. I love how she laughed and told them their grandchildren would be singing Strange Fruit while laughing in their face. She was a force to messed with, beautiful inside and out regardless of the addictions she had. Her fight is what made her Billie Holiday, not the addiction.

I luv it sis tell the truth those devils cant stop whats meant to be..

God works in mysterious ways.

Yes

@@janie3117 what in the name of FUCK are u talking about??? are u even LISTENING to the song? NO! all u hear is what u fucking want to hear. this song IS about the lynchings of black people. But u go ahead and keep on trying to explain it away. Hide behind ur pulpit. Cowardly justification.

As a pink grapefruit, i still dont care what your skincolor is.

​@janie3117 Um it is ALL ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE DF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????? She even says it is in the SONG Yes, she's saying her heart out and soul because she Witness her people being hung from trees by white people. Watch the damn movie AND ACTUALLY LISTEN to the lyrics why do yall Insist on either taking from us or making things about yall that are not. And if you are black saying this shame on you.

It's not your fault it wasn't shared with you. How I discovered this song--Billie singing it--at age 12, I will never forget. I knew nothing about it before I listened to it. I thought she was singing "black bonnet swinging..." It took me three listens for the reality to sink in. One of the most "educating" moments of my life. Yep: heart torn to shreds.

It truly is so heartbreaking 💔😢🥺 This world is filled with so much evil and pain, I long for the day when Christ will reign on the Earth and take it all away. ❤

@@maggiecarreirothey smiled in the postcards of lynchings. It was definitely an evil time before gangsta music/promoted genocide.

@@BapeGangMember that makes me sick to my stomach 💔 how are people able to be so heartless? So void of empathy 😢

Then they wouldn't be able to stop the police from killing Blacks, it would now be law

HUH? Could you please elaborate on this? No offense! Just wanting to learn!

@@hanako7144 Sure, if the anti lynching bill gets passed, then when the police kills black men the way they do with impunity, they could be charged with lynching, but the bill hasn't been passed so lynching still goes on. Hope you've learned

@@hanako7144 One of Billie Holiday's most famous songs was "Strange Fruit" which was about the lynching of blacks. The FBI didn't want her to sing it and used her drug use to dog her and to send her in prison. In 1937, there was an anti-lynching bill in front of Congress and it didn't pass. Today, there is an Emmitt Till anti-lynching bill in front of Congress and it still hasn't been passed.

I know I was literally left with my mouth opened when that was mentioned towards the end of the movie. Smh.

What were your classmates reactions?

Shauna Tate some were shocked but they felt the anger and pain that she did

Emma McGurk good on them for being willing to listen. Most American whites tune it out /refuse to know

Good choice. This performance and song is one of the most important historical moments ever. It is raw and she makes you feel every word.

Good for you

Yes please people look bak at atrosities of the past 2 move forward with kindness and respect 4 everyone regardless race creed coulour so yup lets let every one smile

Thank you

Ok. Sounds good. Thanks for the recommendation.

Currently reading and came to see her sing it.

The us vs Billie Holiday is a movie now too

I came here right after finishing the book and I'm glad someone already mentioned it :). Such mindblowing to hear her life story from that angle!

Funny thing is I heard about this when I was like 15 when my grandparents was telling me about it. And me being young, dumb and ignorant not caring that much about it. Now I'm 42 and I cried like a baby a few times watching the movie. Only if my grandparents could see that.

Another thing they refused to teach us in school. I never knew about it either.

I agree about reparations, but that they should have been paid generously during Reconstruction to those who were actual former slaves

@marilyn devon Not like it hasn't happened in every country ever...

@@FragginWagon76 and is still happening in some countries...don’t buy Hershey’s, nestle, Mars products.

Ashley Williams I couldn't imagine everything she had to go through. Addicted to heroin. Doesn't get worse than that. Pain in her eyes. You could tell she wasn't happy.

Understand the lyrics. Strange fruit is a very powerful song about the hangings black people suffered. Of course it was personal. Can't think on something more personal...

her voice I was so beautiful, but I am sure the pain see her people being hanging at the tree, it's more personal them her , heroine...

Man it's like her eyes are watching everything she's singing about, and she's trying not to look right at it

Her father was jazz musician Clarence "Pops" Holiday. While on tour he developed pneumonia while in Dallas, Texas. Because of the Jim Crow Laws he wasn't able to get the medical attention he needed in Dallas. As a WWI vet the VA Hospital had to take him but by then it was too late and he passed away in the Jim Crow ward on March 1, 1937. Lady recorded "Strange Fruit" two years later as a protest of the way her father was treated and how he died. She always sang the song as a tribute to her father and in protest of the way African Americans were treated at the time. So the song did have a personal pain for her.

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@@nathanielrichardson9817the south is still like that. They have their own police state ever since they wanted to secede from the union

Factss

They really did. I never knew about this song until a dancer in my trooper wanted to perform to it. The old manager said no but I never knew why. He told me and I listened to the song and how fucked up it was that the manager disallowed it. Some things never change

I discovered it after listening to Andra Day's cover of it. She's talented and does justice to it, but I came here to affirm that Billie's original was still the real deal. Fun Fact: I didn't know that Billie was black.

@@shefalig93 chile they probably whitewashed her in any in color pictures they had. I'll give a listen to that version too

We should not have black history month!! Every month is not black history but American History of what was done to black people!!! What a sad song!! Billie was fearless!

It’s amazing to me that our US government and white people during this time period have done so many atrocities to my people… then decades later instead of this being taught in school as history we get told that it’s “marxism” and blah blah blah by white supremacists that want to erase history and hide atrocities committed against the black community.

You can only barely see it because of the disrespectful text.

@@lelandjordan7947 largest lynching in America was of Italians. But they got over it and kept their heritage whilst joining in with society.

@@Dude0000 this simply isn’t true. but go ahead and choose to be ignorant i guess.

@@Dude0000 “largest” and “most” are 2 words you should learn to differentiate today

And still simply evil today.

@@maiat5643 Still...💯

Nope I mean it was dumb to silence her but they did that because she was a worldwide star and the US was fighting the cold war and trying to get in the good graces of 3rd world countries recently liberated from colonialism and were fighting a propaganda campaign against the Soviet union and communism. Btw a communist wrote this song too.

@@kw1199 "Strange Fruit" originated as a poem written by Jewish-American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings. They silenced her because they didn't want her shining a light on the demonic lynchings that were occurring in Amerikkka. Period.

@@maiat5643 😘

My history teacher actually played this so yeah

Analyzed this in English class, but we listened to Nina's version

It definitely does

We actually analyzed this in my American history class, one of the only things I remember because it hit me hard.

@@tymolo883 same here! we dissected the poem first then listened to this song. i was in 8th grade. currently in my 3rd year of college and i still think about this a lot.

Me! I'm sitting here watching Lady Sings the Blues. I've seen The United States vs. Billie Holiday 😥😥💔💔 What this woman went through is absolutely DISGRACEFUL!

Took a loooong time for me to build up the strength to watch this live performance, knowing just how pained and somber her expression would be. It's hard.

Omg mine😢😢😢😢😭

Every time

I literally cried listening to this

Andrew Lynn only if you’re Richard KuKlinski

I must be dead. My heart isn’t aching. Then again I’m not sure I have one anymore anyways. Billie Holiday was terrific though.

@@sweaterwearingsquirrel9302 who hurt you....

If it didn’t make your heart ache, check your pulse....and your privilege.

It's not that sad

Nina Simone's is extremely eerie and painful.

She wrote it

A Jewish man, Abel Meeropol wrote it after seeing a photo, he was a teacher who lived in NY

YES AND NO-ONE SHOULD EVEN ATTEMPT TO SING IT..THIS IS LADY'S SONG STAY WELL CLEAR

No-one sang ANY song like Billie

must have been an awesome teacher; hope the principal supported him

@@Dana9437 he was a beloved teacher in our school and would play pranks on the other teachers and do weird shit in cooridors

I had a similar experience, I first heard this in my American History class when we covered the Civil Rights movement and it took everything I had not to cry my eyes out in the middle of class.

Exactly what my teacher did too, and it made me so sad reading the stuff blacks went through

@@seannoel8615,I grew up during the sixties and Lived the injustice that was part of their Live's, I would have cried too!

Oh she snapped fasho

En français (in french) : Les arbres du Sud portent un fruit étrange, Du sang sur leurs feuilles et du sang sur leurs racines, Des corps noirs qui se balancent dans la brise du Sud, Un fruit étrange suspendu aux peupliers. Scène pastorale du vaillant Sud, Les yeux révulsés et la bouche déformée, Le parfum des magnolias doux et printannier, Puis l'odeur soudaine de la chair qui brûle. Voici un fruit que les corbeaux picorent, Que la pluie fait pousser, que le vent assèche, Que le soleil fait mûrir, que l'arbre fait tomber, Voici une bien étrange et amère récolte !

Thanks for writing out the lyrics: I appreciate it!

Hello Shannon How are you doing today?

that is the most well written, dark poem/song I have ever read.

Don't feel bad about it. Make tomorrow better than yesterday.

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Amen to that we cry and. Complain over the silliest things today...what all people were going through in her time our problems are so very small. I feel u and I'm going to do better.💖Good luck!💖

Same smh as a race we needa do better shit is looking sad , I pray for my generation

progress isn't linear, keep improving yourself and get what you want out of life, your ancestors love you

Her eyes aren't looking at the audience, or at the room at all. Her eyes are looking at those strange fruit, staring in terror.

@@littleredruri their eyes were watching the gos

Yeah I know makes me hate white people that aren’t clearly not racist. For any person to do or allow these things done to any other person is something I can’t relate to

She wasn't there during slavery

@@sargonlebanni2669 no shit, but you think lynching stop when slavery was abolished? Do some research love.

And yes ma’am we are!

Especially when Yeezy used this book for “Blood in the Leaves” .... kids didn’t even know how deep the meaning was while they just singing a hook

Yaaaay! Now its the song of the century!! Hall of Fame!🙌🏿

@@matalynnwhite1006 He didn’t use her version though he used Nina’s version

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me too, how she died infuriated me

@@comrade7324 same here!

what extra credit? Might wanna watch too

@@dayanaraicaranom2190 they have one called Billy Halliday Vs The US Government

I'm so sorry your family had to go through that and that you still to this day or haunted by it I'll never understand the mindset of the white people back then I'm white but I would never ever ever I think about wanting to do something like that I just don't understand why they wanted to I don't know if any of my family was involved in anything like that but I do know for my grandma that I have a great great aunts that helped with the Underground Railroad and her house so that makes me feel good to know that at least. Again I am so sorry or what happened to your ancestors it makes me cry to think about anything and happy life that's why it's so hard for me to watch videos like this and other videos from even the fifties and sixties it's just so hard to watch makes me ashamed to be white

@@lorisanford8515 ,your not alone!😢🙏

Surviving horror is a daily struggle, talking abt it is almost impossible for most survivors. It equates to reliving the horror.

@@isabelleelkhoudri6495 ,it does for me,Molested from 7-9 year's old! I am now a 64 year old Man......I haven't forgot!!!!!!!!!

They never talked about that ish ..u right.. They were trying to forget

Soooo true

True. But this song is very creepy cause it true & couldn't ignore it on Tales from the hood

I have no soul but I get chills what does it mean

Wait actually

Hate to be that one person, but about 50% of people aren't capable of getting chills while listening to music. Just doesn't happen. Though fortunately, I'm not one of those people

There are too many comments that have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of "Lady Day" or music in general. How is it that so many nitwits turn everything into B.S. political crap?!

Was thinking the same.. fuck racism

michael wertzy you’re dull... this whole song is political.

Rachelle Revis >>> and they wonder WHY she done drugs ? REALLY , she had to use something to just show up DYING INSIDE everyday

michael wertzy - Because it’s directly, closely connected with the topic of the song and the reason Billie Holliday sang it! Trump is an overt white nationalist and a dangerous monster who has made life *worse* for people of color. That’s how the inconvenient topic of politics comes up.

Stunning performance by Andra Day!!! Check out a powerful, haunting classical/blues mix of Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit by 3 Mo' Divas. This arrangement and performance is no joke!!! Go to Showbiz Stories channel. Simply amazing.

I’m watching it now

It was really good

I just finished watching The United State vs Billike Holiday!! I was phenomenal. I recommend Everyone watch this movie.

@@mzbabygirl32 I watched too and loved it. Especially the end when she gave Harry Anslinger her finally thoughts. Andra Day slayed! ❤️👏🏾

@Lady Chakra This was in 1959 and by this time Lady Day was sick and dying. Most of the musicologists would listen to Lady Day singing this song and say that her voice was gone. I don't necessarily agree, but it did get heavier and deeper. One of my favorite albums is Lady in Satin which was released in 1958, and, as it turned out, was the last released during her lifetime.

Beautiful voice for sure ..but guys when i found out this song is about people being hanged....my god.

I’m with you, José. I know exactly what you mean.

Everytime she sings this song I feel my stomach in knots like I want to cry. She is the only one that can do this songs lyrics Justice!

@@stephanieramos7648 Have you heard Jill Scott and Nina Simone's interpretation of Strange Fruit? If not, listen to both of them. They give a totally different interpretation.

The words are abstract and simple, yet have an enormous amount of meaning. Billie is a truly strong and amazing woman, but it's a shame that she passed away at such a young age. She would be so proud to see her impact on us today.

Woke Goy, your assertion regarding this performance done by Ms. Holiday is so badly misinterpreted that I’m genuinely shocked by your reply. This song has nothing to do with Ms. Holiday’s personal life, which I won’t argue, was harsh. That aside, this song was written as a poem by a Jewish man whose name was Abel Meeropol in 1937. This gentleman was so horrified by pictures of black men being lynched in the south that he wrote a poem called “Bitter Fruit.” In 1939 Ms. Billie Holiday took those lyrics renamed the song “Strange Fruit,” and that’s the essential evolution of this song. I encourage you, Woke Goy, to listen to Ms. Holiday’s rendition of this song again, the lyrics of this song are quite straight forward.

@Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids You need to shut the hell up little boy. Coming in every comment section trolling. You weren''t alive in those days and I can tell by the way you talk, you are probably not even 30 years old and sit on your ass bitching about your mama didn't cook your food cause that's the only trouble your "intitled" little ass has ever had in your life. Shut up and go back to nursing on your mamas breasts. You don't know nothing.

@Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aidsare you always such jackass. Do you hate black people?

@Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids the song is literally about lynching. Wtf are you blathering on about?

Black men werent the only ones being lynched 😒

i know.....she isn't singing it ...she is living it.

She's eyes I can't tell anything

Yes you can

@@dennisleporte2327 she lived a hard life

@@shanettacane7101 - 'Lady Sings the Blues' (1972) movie about her life. Diana Ross portrayed Holiday. Cast includes Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor - the piano man.

PHAT BEATZ I think Nina Simone did a great job

listen to jacques brel ;)

@@scalpassociation2424 jacques brel??

Nina Simone blessed this track 💯💯💯

Jeff Buckley did a great cover of this song.

Rosa, we are still in the day and age of lynching. So, when you speak of it as a thing of the past, you speak prematurely.

@@cherylguest7415 Lynching and murder is still happening but our ancestors came a long way to make shit happen like being able to sit at any restaurant without being ridiculed, not going to the back of the bus and so on. We still have a lot of work to do but none of that work is in vain.

@@juicywater7868, Amen to that my sister!!!

@ Rosa F that's a very profound statement you made. It shows your awakened consciousness and your wonderful sense of gratitude for who and why you are. Continued blessings.

It’s changed from lynching to police murdering black people

AMEN my Buffalo Brother... "say their names"

Emotions all over the place reading the lyrics

So sad I'm glad I wasn't born in those days because they'll have to kill me too

Lyrics are metal af

Well said.

im fucking sobbing

Thank you

Great analysis, but using filthy language is very disrespectful and just plain inappropriate to the memory of Billie Holiday and the song.

Billie Holliday. The greatest of them all!

Jonnie M : You know her now and you won't forget. Love to you...

Same

Your a black American you ain’t African my guy

I looked this up because of a "dark history" video I just watched(Bailey Syrian). I had no idea who she was, definitely never heard the song before. She really was a fighter 💔 heartbreaking song on so many levels for so many reasons.

@@DMoney643 are you slow? “African American” isn’t a nationality, it’s an ethnicity. Stfu

You were born the same year my brother and father in law was born. His mom named him after her. I told my husband.

@@shaheedahevans2871 that sounds very confusing

I am 52 and my grandma who passed in like 76 said she witnessed a lynching of a black person.

@@djjackson6276 That's messed up.

But they claim harsh racism was sooooooo long ago if ppl alive can still remember it wasn’t that damn long ago

Hmmm. She died somewhat shortly after this. As soon as you mentioned Hoover the first thing I thought was that maybe he helped that to happen.

And he had black ancestry..He hated himself

@ESONIA KNIGHT Yes.....he was hiding all of his secrets in plain sight....Just a Mess!!!

He's buried in capitol cemetery in DC. I have made a point to spit on that man's grave.

Josh McDonald J Edgar Hoover’s grave is an excellent gender neutral bathroom to use if you’re on a long tour of the cemeteries in our nations capital

It was so sad she was a strung out heroin user, but it was said She abused heroin to numb the pain of what she seen of black men being lynched and nothing being done about it, brilliant song with a brilliant meaning.

So heartbreaking💔

so sad. smfh

just putrification of dead bodies......wasn't your's now was it Skippy?

so strange fruit is another word for a body ?

It's OK white girl. You can hurt but my word don't ever feel guilty for something you did not do.

"im angry that ive never been aware of this" me too damn :( .

So many Scotts enslaved, raped, and murdered over the course of hundreds of years by the English and literally noone today talks about it anymore.

@@grapeape888 The English have a cruel history of how they got power from around the world.

@@ikhlasyassinn nobody in U.S culture talks about or cares about what happened to the Scotts or the Irish because they're white. It seems like slavery only ever happened to one race, in one place, America.

Ur grandfather brave man and survivor

We need to do so much better in this country. What has really changed in 100 years? People don't get lynched anymore, sure, but what other indignations have minorities been forced to endure even since the end of Jim Crow? I'm almost ready to give up on America and let it burn itself down. smh

A s o b want that lynching law back in Mississippi 😭😭😭😭 😡

​@@LeCharles07 "What has really changed in 100 years?" Bro wtf are you on. The injustices of today in no way compare to the injustices of the past. To say that nothing has changed is to discredit not only the victims of the past, but also those who sacrificed so much to change our society for the better. You are spitting in the face of those who worked for what we have today by giving up and letting America burn to the ground. I'm gen z and it is clear that my generation is significantly more inclusive than the generation of our parents. My parents hold more bigoted views than I do, and the same is true for the majority of the population. Yes, racism and indignations still exist, but we are on a positive path. There is no quick fix to solve the problems that currently exist. It will take time for things to get better, and things will get better as long as our access to information does not become more restricted. We have set up the proper institutional regulations so that it is a disadvantage to be racist in today's society. Racism will be weeded out in a Darwinian-esque, survival of the fittest fashion. But evolution takes generations, and that is what we need to wait for. Things will never be perfect, it's impossible, but things are already better than the media makes them out to be. The media clearly profits off perpetuating racism. I believe there should be a focus on racism, but less so than what we have now so we can focus on other issues. It is the most provocative topic which is why there is such a focus on it. It's entertainment, bringing companies profit, distracting and preventing us from focusing on any other societal issues. When is the last time you have seen the media praise America for its progress on racism? You don't see that, when it is clearly the case if you simply base it on the fact that those with more racist viewpoints are old and dying off. I do not understand how people are unable to see through this, and it is saddening. I am about the most privileged person in America if you were to judge me based on the my upbringing as a straight, white, rich male - but I suffer from 2 mental disabilities that have made me a constant subject of misunderstanding and ridicule. One of my disabilities is extremely rare. I had not even heard of it until this year. It is so rare that there is no one for me to talk to about it. Practically no one I can relate to, even on the internet. There is no one fighting for me. There is no one spreading awareness for what I have. Yet I am told that I am more privileged than most people in America, even by other family members. Is this really the case, or does the media have people believe this is the case? However, there are many victims of racial discrimination, so it of course should be prioritized over my disability that affects maybe less than 1 in 10000 adults, even if my struggles are more debilitating. The prioritization of race does not upset me, but the misleading coverage of it does. I am certain that things would be better if the majority of media companies took one of the 5,000 hours on covering racism and focused it on other problems such as mental disability. This will not happen until truth becomes more profitable than provocation. If people are to falsely believe that racism is not diminishing, then there may be no hope for the less populated, oppressed minority groups such as those with mental disabilities. People will come to realize that racism is dying off, but it is a tragedy that the media is slowing this process. I don't see a significant changes in the view on my disability in the next decade or 2, but I can only imagine a future where there is more understanding . That is not going to happen until people are more satisfied with racial standings in America. So have hope for black people - you will be giving hope to all other disaffected groups and individuals. Maybe I'm saying we should give up on racism. Maybe if people were to give up on their ideas of race, less people would care about it. That may be a good thing.

True

blah blah blah that song yvngchris made was hard asf

Yvngchris is black so how does he not have respect for black people? and the song was not hateful nor did he know what it was about

@@deathsmelody9452 you can be black and racist towards other black people. I’m not saying anything about yvngchris but you can be black and racist.

@@whirlyturtles718 yeah true

Thing is, white America has absolutely no idea WHO they enslaved! There is gonna be a heavy price to pay in the end!

Because they didn’t want to be reminded of the inhumane acts they committed

@@fatmooselips3110 correction. Continue to commit!*

They were scared of us. There has always been hatred towards blacks everywhere. They went through all of this pain in suffering for us to not handle in the future

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Hello nora How are you doing today?

Damn she died the same year this was released?!?

@@blairwright2693 no Billie sang this song from an early part of her career, that is when she was able to, mostly in smaller venues like clubs and jazz bars , when she tried to sing it at other places where there were white people in the audience is when she would get stopped by the law ...Anslinger and his gang made her life hell because she would still sing it wherever she performed until it got to the stage of the corrupt 'law' planting drugs on her and getting people to set her up, even her husband..and basically made life for her unbearable until she stopped singing the song at her shows. Them bastards had her cuffed to her hospital bed when she was gravely ill and refused to take them off , therefore she died cuffed to the hospital bed and if that wasn't bad enough they also planted heroin and drug paraphernalia on her after she died , all in order to smear and stain her reputation and character more than they already had. Disgraceful f*cks it sickens me to think about what they put her through

This is the saddest story indeed. What a wonderful woman

I am so sorry for your ancestor's pain.

That was very poetic and I feel the generational trauma, too.

God love you... I have no such heritage and yet from the moment I heard this 47 years ago I sobbed and still to this day feel every injustice when hearing it. We are all ONE. Much love to you.... and all x

@King Farmer ...I sadly understand completely. At this point I hardly watch movies and documentaries about slaves cause I get so emotional. So angry and sad. I hear this song and I can feel the scene her voice paints for us. And when I think about how she died I feel grief.

@@mellowillow Perfectly stated; totally track with you on this and am on the same "page." Heart-wrenching....

yes it is bruh lol for me

Uhh it just did for me

It showed up first for me

Idk what you’re looking up but strange fruit is even one of the suggested terms when I just type in “strange” It’s possibly the most significant song ever written/performed. I have a history degree and I can confirm that a LOT of really well-respected historians consider this 3 minute song to have been one of the earliest sparks in the civil rights movement, it was added to the national archives as a song of great significance, and it was named TIME’s song of the century in 1999 (even though, ironically, TIME called it NAACP propaganda back when Billie Holiday first recorded it)

All depends on what A.I. thinks you’re interested in……. Big brother is indeed watching

Or even better... stop entertaining them and stoo producing sweat...

So unfortunate

stop being so violent and all will be fine.

@@joejones9520 yall invented violence and racism soooo...

The only enemy is anyone being immoral. And I don't just see this from non-blacks.

YES! BLACK POWER! To the pale face, your day is coming. Yah hears our cries and sufferings.

@@tperkins9411 an eye for an eye will make things much better won't it?

Stop whinihhhng. All you get are fobs like that fob talking about "revenge". Like they ever will get revenge. I as a White Male can tell you... We own everything and will always own everything. Even Feminism is ours now. A law is going through allowing men(thanks to my kind) to compete in women sports... We literally OWN THE WORLD!!!!!! And you cheer when a "White male becomes a feminist or blm actavist..." Yeah, ends well for the White Males and you do nothing but "cheer". Sad world....

With respect and in love, Are you doing anything about "feeling the pain and being sorry for us still going through hell"? Are you at least talking to "your family, friends, co workers about intentionally being anti-racist? Are you speaking up around racist talk or jokes in your community? Are you intentionally befriending a Black person to show solidarity in a tangible way? Are you supporting Black owned business? Giving towards a Black child's college? Are you speaking about the unfair justice system and systemic racism in the fabric of this country? Not as a debate, but as factors. Black people can not solve an issue we didn't create. We need sensible people like you to get in the fight of awareness and resolve. I appreciate your comment. Bless you.

@@annettemylove1415, I decided to take my time to respond to you. The way you came at me was from a place of negative energy which I don't usually waste my time on. I would rather maintain having a high vibration frequency which is needed especially for the spiritual war we are in currently. However, are you seriously questioning me? If you are, I need you to tell me why I owe you an explanation as I don't understand what your intentions are. I didn't get any respect and love from your comment directed towards me. On top of that, what have you done yourself as you didn't give any specific information or details on what you have done. So keep it civil, respectful and honest if you want to have a productive mature discussion with me. As I don't engage if I am being patronised, antagonised or disrespected in anyway. I hope you can clear up any misunderstandings if there were any.