To Catch Sight Of The Freedom Train

The lifeless bare branches and stark black on whiteness take me immediately to Strange Fruit, may the sickness of those times (our times) someday be healed.

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.

In the New Testament, there is the story of a tax collector, Barrabas, who climbed into a tree so that he might be able to see Christ. Christ summoned him down from the tree and embraced him …

The first thing I thought of was Paul Fuscos RFK Funeral Train images..and now..I ask with that in mind what do these images and this entire amtrak trip mean?

Andrew Sullivan had the same thought. Here is his post:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/01/the-hope-they-s.html

hope is a boy in a tree.

is it just me or is the second image not coming up?

yg, all images come up for me

yay, i can see now.

the tax collector was Zaccheus.
Barabbas was the revolutionary released by Pilate who wanted instead to free Jesus of Nazareth.