Second blog post

My initial reaction of “strange Fruit” is that it’s a very powerful song. I selected this song because I like the way the writer uses a fruit as a metaphor of dead bodies of African Americans hanging from trees. I also like his use of irony when he represents the south as the “gallant south”. The secondary source that really compares to the song is “The Case Stated”. Both works are talking about how common it was to lynch African Americans. The story explains how the whites are always making up excuses to murder African Americans. The first excuse was that they started race riots and then it was that they had to stop African Americans from voting. The last excuse was that African Americans were raping white women. It says that during these years more than ten thousand African Americans have been killed. It also explains how there was a great injustice in the system. As she states, “for all these murders only three white men have been tried, convicted, and executed”. They both shed light on the other because the song is showing a visual image of the lynching and the story is explaining why whites did it and how unfair the government was.