Sam Greenlee: "He Had a Dream." [Non-Violence Has Made Black People Just Like Butter]

From "Poetry & Other Raps"

By Sam Greenlee. 

He Had A Dream

I wonder what he thought in

that 

flashing, 

fleeting, 

pain-filled

moment when he must have 

realized that turn the cheek 

don't work when you been

slapped by a .30-.30 slug? 

Non-violence has made Black people just like butter – you just cut into them with your knife, and there is no response just reaction with no repercussions. And millions can be killed and demeaned without any resistance, because resistance would be violence. [MORE] and [MORE]