{"id":288,"date":"2007-09-03T03:49:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2007-09-03T03:49:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T07:49:57","slug":"288","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/288\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/suecoestrangefruit.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicwitness.org\/coe\/enter.htm\">Sue Coe&#8217;s<\/a> insightful interpretation of Michael Vick and his admittance to killing pit bulls and involvement with dog fighting. <\/p>\n<p>By calling this woodcut, <em>Strange Fruit<\/em>, she draws a parallel between the lynching of black people in the segregated south of the United States with how Vick hung pit bulls who were considered unfit to fight. She asks us to see that there is a continuous line in oppression regardless of the victim and their species. <\/p>\n<p><em>Strange Fruit<\/em> is a song that condemns American racism. Billie Holiday&#8217;s version is the one that most people are familiar with. The Grumpy Vegan prefers the one by Robert Wyatt. The pathos in his voice hauntingly reflects the songs&#8217; lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Oscar Wilde also wrote in <em>The Ballad of Reading Goal<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For oak and elm have pleasant leaves<br \/>\nThat in the spring-time shoot:<br \/>\nBut grim to see is the gallows-tree,<br \/>\nWith its adder-bitten root,<br \/>\nAnd, green or dry, a man must die<br \/>\nBefore it bears its fruit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Image reproduced with permission of the artist.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Sue Coe&#8217;s insightful interpretation of Michael Vick and his admittance to killing pit bulls and involvement with dog fighting. By calling this woodcut, Strange Fruit, she draws a parallel between the lynching of black people in the segregated south &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/288\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26,34],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-interbeing","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}