Week Four: Blog Response

As I started to listen to this song, I realized that my favorite artist, Kanye West, sampled this song on his song "Blood on the Leaves". Although the songs sound completely different, I believe they convey the same message. The strange fruit that hangs on the tree is the bodies of black people being hanged. As they are hung from a noose, their blood begins to drip onto the leaves. This is just another example of how blacks (and other minorities) are mistreated. This song directly correlates with Walker's story due to the fact that Myop came across a dead man, who was hung from a tree. This is the strange fruit that has ripen and fallen off of the Southern tree and is now left to rot on the ground. This song is very powerful and can be applied to modern society. In recent news, many police officers have wrongfully murdered many black people. What is troubling to understand is that they are not punished for these actions. As a result, there has been an uprising of the "#BlackLivesMatter" movement in which people have begun and continue to protest for equality. Progress has been made but in reality, I don't believe things will change unless we change. The 5% with power will continue to corrupt the judicial system and will continue to "give the blind eye" to the heinous hate crimes committed daily by the bigots of this country. For change to occur, we have to be the change; we have to put ourselves into the judicial system to weed out the corrupt people who operate it now. We can not keep limiting ourselves to being average. We can not keep being the fruit that falls off of the tree and at this point, I believe we are hanging ourselves and not giving ourselves a chance to grow. This is the only way to achieve equality within the world. I went off on a huge tangent but I hope my message was somewhat related to your question.