Annie Lennox says online criticism leveled at her remarks about the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” was hurtful and unfair.
“It was so painful. I can’t even begin to tell you. I’m the last person who would disrespect that history,” Lennox said.
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“I’m a person who really, really cares about social injustice, and racism is so vile to me and it disturbs me, since I was a kid I’ve been distressed by this, this fact that there’s still so much injustice,” she said.
