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So fitting for Andra Day to perform Strange Fruit at a time when the same exact kind of energy that tried to bar Billie Holiday from performing that song is alive and well today in the vicious battle against accurate history and anti-racism. #betawards2021 #BETAwards
The thing about history is that we just keep fighting the same demons in different form… and our charge, like the scientists fighting various iterations of SARS, is to try to become more sophisticated at battling the new variants.
The people shrieking about “wokeness” and the #1619Project and demonizing their made-up version of critical race theory would in the 1930s and ‘40s have been demanding that Billie Holiday be dragged offstage and arrested for singing “that song that slandered white southerners.”
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