The police didnt hang Michael Brown, but they made a public - TopicsExpress



          

The police didnt hang Michael Brown, but they made a public display of his killing. They left his body lying there for all to see. The psychic toll that exerts on a community calls to mind the eerie words once sung by Billie Holiday: Southern trees bear strange fruit/ blood on the leaves and blood at the root…/ here is a fruit for the crows to pluck/ for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck. But for Brown and Ferguson, the poplar trees were replaced with a city street. It is an injustice that Michael Brown was killed. But injustice alone doesnt move people to action. His killing is one of many. But the sight of Michael Browns body being left in the middle of the street is the closest this generation has come to seeing, in real life, the strange fruit of which Holiday sang. Thats an image you just cant shake.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:36:26 +0000

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