The News with Dan Rather: April 30, 2018

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Dan Rather reporting on Korea’s path to peace, what role the US will play.  Sean Hannity’s real estate empire. Montgomery, AL opens The  National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

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  1. Thank you Wynsong for the lyrics to Strange Fruit. It is a song I’d heard only the name of before this broadcast, and I had no idea Billie Holiday sang it. She sang it in a very chilling, deeply fearful way, as if the ghosts of so many victims were possessing her as she sang.

    I challenge Kanye West to sing this song.

    I know Eminem, Ro Khanna and so many others from so many walks of life would have no trouble singing this song, save for the great sadness it would bring to their justice and inclusivity-filled hearts.

    This broadcast by Dan Rather brought tears to my eyes. I wish my late mom and dad could’ve known that Walter Cronkite’s successor was this understanding and empathetic.

    But to be honest I’m glad they left this world before 2016, because that election would have killed them faster than you could say Bull Connor.

  3. Thank you Mr. Rather for ending your program with that sorrowful, haunting song. It was hard to listen to, and I hope it will remind us we still have a long way to go to overcome the bitter racial hatred that once prevailed in this country.

  4. This is show is a great addition to TYT. Thanks, Cenk. And thank you so much Dan. Keep it up!

  5. Here are the lyrics to Strange Fruit:

    Southern trees bear strange fruit
    Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
    Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
    Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

    Pastoral scene of the gallant south
    The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
    Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
    Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

    Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
    For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
    For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
    Here is a strange and bitter crop

    Songwriters: Lewis Allan / Maurice Pearl / Dwayne P Wiggins
    Strange Fruit lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

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