You don’t think music presents ideas??

“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”

“You that never done nothin’ But build to destroy You play with my world Like it’s your little toy You put a gun in my hand And you hide from my eyes And you turn and run farther When the fast bullets fly”

“I was on a heavy tip Try’na cross a canyon with a broken limb You were on the other side, like always Wondering what to do with life I’d already had a sip So I’d reasoned I was drunk enough to deal with it You were on the other side, like always You could never make your mind”

“This plot is bigger than me, it’s generational hatred It’s genocism, it’s grimy, little justification I’m African-American, I’m African I’m black as the heart of a fuckin’ Aryan”

My boyfriends mon said to me once that she thinks all sci-fi and fantasy books should be banned.

I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to argue but I basically just met her.

I know a few people like this. It’s so weird to be proud that you don’t read. I even had this one weirdo say to me “I vowed to never read another book after University” and I thought, well this is the most r/iamverysmart thing I’ve ever encountered offline.

Really?

You’ll probably like them fine enough then. They aren’t ever purely romance. They usually have some sort of suspense or thrilling aspect to them.