Strange Fruit: Voices Of A Lynching Analysis

The podcast “Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching” was an intimate account of the events that took place nearly eight decades ago in Marion, Indiana. The audio began by recounting recent events that when thought about, evoked the same feelings today, as they did in the past. The story first focuses on the events that took place in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention is focused on the lack of compassion there was for a human body in the case of Michael Brown. Emotions are stirred up by evident lack of progression that has been made as a nation.
As the story begins, a man named Clyde was shot with three black boys present. Clyde later died at the hospital while the three young men remained in custody. When the news of Clyde’s death began to spread, an angry mob formed outside of the jail that held the three boys. The intentions of the mob were to make the boys pay for their crime without trial. A rumor began to circulate that shots would not be fired into the mob for fear of hitting innocent women and children. When the members of the mob were made aware of this, they were empowered. No longer fearing adequate repercussions, the mob delivered their biggest, and strongest men to the front. Armed with sledgehammers, the men began to administer powerful, and successive blows to the wall of the building. With each hit
There is a saying in the Bible about knowing the tree by the fruit that it bears. Usually thinking of fruit trees you may picture something you enjoy, such as apples or peaches. When apples or peaches become replaced with the bodies of a specific race, I do believe they can be considered strange fruit indeed. These lynching of African Americans happened over eighty years ago, but with the recent tension in society it can feel like only yesterday. The only difference from the past and the present is that the strange fruit is now laying in the