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to think we have the video with the audio is insane.

SAD SAD SAD!!!! THAT HORRIBLE HISTORY AND INJUSTICE HAS TO BE RIGHTED.

Who’s here because of Kanye’s “Blood On The Leaves”?

We can build heaven or we can build this horrific scenery... I know it wont reach the author, but, thank you for such a lovely made reminder of what our brutallity can reach.

😢

One of the saddest and most hauntingly beautiful song to ever exist.

En roue libre les coms

😢 gut wrenching 💔

This breaks me every time I can't even see when listening to this everything becomes a consistent blur!!! It's the only way I can describe it! IS THERE NO JUSTICE!?!?!?!?!?

Who is here for blacksad part ll

This song makes me cry I have cut down several pieces of Strange Fruit my granddad one of them

Very disturbing. It upsets me beyond, that these murders actually happened.

It is a rare talent, and she is one, that can make something so dark sound so classy. it makes it more powerful to me due to it being such a rare combination.

For the ones who don't know, this is a song called strange fruit, the recording of this footage was from 1939. It was about black people being lynched for no reason, and she got arrested for it.

Magnifique et horrible à la fois

I got an m16 on my body I told that nigga to FREEZE I got a badass bitch tell that hoe to get on her knees FREEZE damn that’s crazy as fuck now there’s blood on the leaves 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's haunting I'm Jewish & I remember my great grandmother telling me stories of family members being harassed by white supremist & kkk she lost 2 of her brothers to lynching

I often wonder why blacks didn't return to Africa after they were freed by President Lincoln.

quand je lit ces paroles, on comprend que les années d'obscurantisme était proche, surtout la partie: "Car ces cafards, de vile race, Sont nés pour être inquisiteurs…" ou la partie "Salir nos enfants et nos femmes !" , "Vous réclamez des libertés ? Il n’en est pas pour les punaises !", "Pas de pitié pour les jésuites !" Bref tous ces mots ont été utilisé aussi en Allemagne quelques années plus tard contre une autre communauté religieuse. Sur les camps d'extermination il y avais gravé: le travail rend libre.

This song has a touchy feeling ❤I love it

“Kill all the white man” is another good song by NOFX this song just makes me want to listen to it

What a meaningful song.Billie Holiday wonderful woman.

Wow

Deep and real

this made my heart ache

thanks

Wow Kanye brought Kanye and it’s winning time brought me here never new the meaning

Snowfall brought me here

A Jewish American poet and teacher, Abel Meeropol happened upon a photograph taken by Lawrence Beitler of two black men named Thomas Ship and Abram Smith taken in 1930 in Marion Indiana, who were beaten and murdered by a mob after being arrested for murder of Claude Deeter and raping his girlfriend Mary Ball the night before. The local police cooperated with the mob (estimated in the thousands) as they first broke the two men's arms and hung them . Abel Meeropol wrote a poem called 'Bitter Fruit' which was published in a New York magazine. Meeropol himself retitled it and set it to music around 1937. He, his wife and a black singer Laura Duncan played it at Madison Square Garden. We don't know for sure who introduced the song to Holliday, but she first performed it at Cafe Society in 1938 and recorded it in 1939. Holliday did NOT help write or compose as was claimed in her autobiography.

She saw it with her own eyes. My ppl have been thru too much 😔

Il avait tout..compris.... Cher Beranger .......inoubliable comme tes mots sur nos maux Aujourd hui pire ....qu..hier.... 1er janvier 2022 ..C est irréel....

This is such a fun song! I just covered this if you'd like to check it out :)

I just found out what it means before I heard it on blood on the leaves by yungchris

This song is scary

Billie Holiday really was the mother of the civil rights movement. She protested the stark injustices perpetrated upon black people in her songs and performances. Ms. Holiday did not fear the racist white people of her era.

And you idiots on Tik tok making dances to this song 🤨

When I see this, I feel proud to be a Serb. The Constitution of the state of Serbia, written and adopted in 1835, says: Every man who steps on the soil of the state of Serbia with one foot immediately (if he is a slave) becomes a free man and no one can take that freedom. .. 1999 America bombed my country with aviation that has not been recorded in the history of warfare

wow

Abel meeropol wrote this I was surprised a Whiteman wrote this I bet alot of people don't know that

This is such a sad song sung by a such a sad woman. Ugly and beautiful.

It's not enough to just feel sad for these people...we must puah our government to make them whole again. Its not write what happen to them and they've paid a far dreadful price to be free then any other American. There's no way to make things right with the victims of slavery who have suffered and passed, but we can improve the situation of their decadent who still suffer the curse of slavery, hatred and discrimination till this very day. There's groups formed to hate and kill them that our protected by our federal government under the guise of free speech. I say if your free speech infringes on the freedom of another person freedom...that speech is not free. Hate speech is paid with blood.

bitch i be killing these beats damn i got a m16 on my body i told dat lil nigga to FREEZE

I heard this song in the movie Traffik then went and looked it up wow it really made me cry instantly

most of us came from yvngxchris 😂🥷🏾

We also need to look back even further,... When man would chop off the heads of those "thought" to be breaking the law of the land,... and placing their heads upon stakes, that surrounded the compounds of whomever was the local one in power... Used to scare off anyone even contemplating ever going against them!!! Sitting there,... AS WARNING.... That IF ONE CHOOSES TO GO AGAINST THEM, THAT THEY WOULD ALSO FIND THEMSELVES BEHEADED.... AND PLACED WHERE EVERYONE COULD SEE!!!

Man can be so vile... *** Here's some American History: 4,000 blacks had been lynched... with 1,000 whites also having been lynched. Why did folks hang people? Why'd they choose that method? •BACK IN THE DAY... Royalty used the guillotine and too, had just an Ax Man to do the deed... •In Western Days, Blacks and whites (both) had a special platform built for them to be hung on... with the towns folk [as audience] looking on, as the "criminals were hung for whatever crime they had supposedly committed... And too, blacks and whites were also BOTH lynched... hung in a nearby tree, whenever there was a crime committed that the supposed victims felt didn't require THE LAW to intervene... A VIGILANTE style of "justice", one might say... Check out Thomas Sewell's stats... He also wrote on: ••• THE 1st LEGAL SLAVE OWNER: "The first legal slaveowner in America was a black man, and at the time of the Civil War, 1/3 of all the slaveowners in New Orleans were freed blacks! Also, many freed slaves were gifted land, homes, and even businesses by their prior "owners"... Helping them in their new lives as FREE MEN. With the fact that they had then chose to [more less] take their old Masters place, in becoming slave owners themselves, is quite the loaded question...❗️

Strange Fruit!

I Just need to clear my mind now its been racing since the summertime

Trump, CPAC, and the RNC has sown this fruit in Atlanta.

I had absolutely no interest in Billy Holiday, mostly because i do not like jazz, until i saw the trailer for The Hulu Movie about her life...its a bit more interesting than i thought. I at least like this version of this song.