![]() And your church is complicit in sowing a system of injustice, our hands are not free of the blood and our hearts are not free of the hate. As we gaze upon the strange fruit that we have produced we must know in our hearts and souls that this is not random mutation of our planting, but the result of years of sowing in blood and hate. ![]() So now, as we bow our heads into the force of the whirlwind, we must know deep down that this is not a momentary aberration or accident of the changing of the wind. Your prophet Hosea warned us that if we sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind. Your servant Paul warned us that as we sow, so shall we reap. Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol, popularized by Billie Holiday:īlood on the leaves and blood at the rootīlack bodies swinging in the southern breeze
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