Strange Fruit Tone

Strange Fruit By Abel Meeropol published in 1999s. Strange Fruit a poem written by Abel Meeropol, was written about an experience that probably none of us have experienced before. This Poem was based on our world where people like us hated the colored, and blamed them for no reason. Abel Meeropol a poet and a social activist was disturbed by a picture of two African American teenagers who were hung (lynched) on a tree. Abel stated that he was haunted for days, he stated how cruel and how fast racism had spread in America U.S. This picture motivated Abel Meeropol, he was so shocked about those people who smiled in the picture so he wrote the poem trying to make people understand that what they did in the 1930’s was wrong, and hateful. My overall

I think Billie was trying to sound a little dramatic because of the way Abel described the bodies of the hanged people, she was trying to make everyone feel emotional, and have the feeling of what Americans did to the colored their fault. The emotion that the speaker uses as he talks is hatred, he demonstrates by the lyrics that he hated the way Americans (white people) treated the colored he wanted people to see what Americans did when some of us weren’t here. The poem/song relates to Abel Meeropol history for the most part, prior to his adopted sons. Robert Meeropol and his older brother Michael Meeropol were Abels sons, behind their story Robert and Michael's Mother(Julius Rosenberg) and Father(Ethel Rosenberg) were executed in 1953. Julius and Ethel were sentenced to death for sharing atomic secrets to the “Soviet Union”, prior to their death of being "the first husband and wife to die in the electric chair." Later then when the kids were 6 and 9 years old Abel and his wife quickly fell in love with them and adopted them before anything happened to the. This is kind of similar to the poem because as in the article only two of the african american teenagers died and one got saved because of a kind person “which they call the angel”

This poem is both disturbing to the author, Abel Meeropol and to many of us. In this case I believe that most who have seen the images have been haunted for a day or two and wish that none of that (racism) had happened in America. During that time Racism hit America very badly, Americans hurt the colored people, they hanged them, and let their innocent blood stain every little leaf and root, not to mention that they left their bodies to rot and left it so the trees can let go of them and make of them a strange fruit. With this in mind we can all learn that racism was highly common in the “old” days but I believe that we should all appreciate that it is not highly common right now and if it’s still around in some cities/countries/states then they should read /listen to this poem and learn more about it so people can understand the horrifying meaning in racism. This Author, Abel Meeropol was very successful in achieving his goal from this message to point out that racism was stopped and that racism or discrimination won't be acceptable in