Thursday, February 23, 2017

"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday

I was dismayed to hear about "the president that shall not be named" rescinding the transgender bathroom policy that the Obama administration put in place.  So FRUSTRATING!!

I saw two videos from The View this morning, the first one where they discuss it and I completely agree with Whoopie's rant:

YouTube (The View):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOmDjFMRUgY

The second one they have Gavin Grimm on the show and Lavern Cox on the phone (see my post on Feb 16th).

YouTube (The View): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUCf58Nlhk

#StandWithGavin

I got sucked in by some troll and wasted an hour and a half writing some (hopefully intelligent) reply trying to explain our challenges.  Wendy Jean pointed out it was likely a waste of time.

Anyway, SueZQ mentioned similarities to the Civil Rights Movement and I was thinking about that and this song came to mind.

The "history" video made me SICK!  A part of U.S. history we should ALL be ashamed of!!  But what is frightening is that we have racist and sexist people in the administration now.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007rzSOI
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mO92ll_q0k
YouTube (history): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98CxkS0vzB8
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52ElU5tQNo

Note: this song was also mentioned in the Samantha Bee video I posted in my January 26th post at about 5 minutes in:

YouTube (Full Frontal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1AvNnJRMts&t=5m3s

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