@Stoned_Deva_
Hugs, hugs, and more big hugs, Lizzy!
College was a difficult transition for both my daughter and me. She ended up adjusting much sooner than I did.
@Stoned_Deva_ I heard this in junior high. My teacher was progressive and played this for us with the lights off. Everybody seemed to get it (a major feat in late-80s Indiana). It makes me sad that it's still relevant.
I investigated women lives in 19th century NC in college. One aspect of the research/paper was to discover how much of that history was known to contemporary women in 1977. When slavery came up in one interview with an elder Black woman, she brought up the song and how reactions in her house and community were divided over "Strange Fruit." Some believed the song was necessary; others, including her mother, didn't want to know about it.
@DemocracySpot I imagine it was too painful for some to listen to in an everyday type of setting. I feel that way about certain Bob Dylan songs sometimes. You have to be in a certain mindset and prepare yourself before listening to them. @Rand
@DemocracySpot@Stoned_Deva_ It was dangerous to even talk about it. It isn't QUITE like that anymore, but it isn't far off. We see the modern version, police and vigilantes executing black men and women with no reasonable cause and rarely with reasonable consequences.
It should be terrifying to even consider committing a crime that takes away another human being's life without EXTREMELY just cause, the consequences should be personal doom. Instead it's just another day.
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