re: #61 Charles

For example, from yesterday’s post about the racist comments at Fox Nation:

This id iot N woman needs to be hung from a tree as strange fruit. Anyone not understanding me needs to listen to Bessie Smith’s song.

Yes, this person is calling openly for Sheila Jackson Lee to be lynched.

Apparently musical satire is not much of a weapon against such people. “I love that song. It’s about one of my favorite things: lynchin’!”

Here’s a gruesome photo of the inspiration for that song.