A strange fruit hanging from trees?

 Well, this is not my favorite song, but the first time I listened to it I couldn’t stop imagining and thinking how hard it was life for color people in the States, especially in The South, in those days.

This song was first performed by Billie Holiday, an Afro-American singer, in 1939, but in this video is Nina Simone who performs. It was written as a poem and talks about the racism in the United States and the cruelty that color people was subject of.  The hangings and the killings in those days were so often that watching bodies hanging from the trees was quite normal, the fear of those who were object of that violence and hatred was many times overlook by the law.

Hate and violence against those who are different to us is still part of our society today, the world hasn’t learned a thing, the unjustified hate and discrimination is still issue nowadays. When we are going to stop?