Strange Fruit, Still. Still.

Strange Fruit, Still. Still.

By Shalise Manza Young“Southern trees bear a strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swingin’ in the Southern breezeStrange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees…”Strange fruit is hanging from Southern trees. It’s not accurate to say “again,” because that indicates it stopped for a time, and the reality is it likely never has.Yet it is hard to deny that it isn’t happening more frequently now. Alarmingly, disturbingly mor…