If you settle to give
your seat to a white man
in the front of the bus
just call it--common courtesy,
especially when he's got a bad leg or can't see.
But if he beats you with his cast iron cane,
demands for you to move
and when you don't, spits in your face
and calls you a nigger-bitch,
then, and only then, you know momma was right.
It's time to take out your earrings and go out with a fight!