Enough - Gil Scott-Heron

It was not enough that we were bought and brought to this home as the slave locked in the bowels of a floating *************thouse watching those we love eaten away by plauge and insanity flesh falling like strips of bark from a termite infested tree bones rotting turning first to brittle ivory then to resin
That was not enough
It was not enough that we were chained to leg irons black on black with a piss stained wall forced to heed nature's call through and inside of tattered rags that strained our privates and evidently years of slavery did not appease your need to be superior to something like a crazed lion hung up on being the king of his corner of the cage backs bent under the wieght of being everything and having nothing minds too like bomerrangs curving back into themselves kicked and carved by the face straining smiles that saved my life
That was not enough
Somehow I can not believe that it would be enough for me to melt with you and integrate without the thoughts of rape and murder I cannot conceive of peace on earth until I have given you a piece of lead or pipe to end your worthless mother*******exitence imagine your nigh*******ares of my sneaking into a vieled of satin bedroom and attacking your daughter wife and mother at once ripping open their bowels ***ually like a wishbone imagine that magnified a million times when you realize that the blinders have been stripped from my eyes and I realize that slavery was no smiling happy fizzy party your ancestors raped my foremothers and I will not forget I will not forget that Yale or Harvard or Princeton or In Hell because you are on my mind I see you everytime my woman walks down the street with her a*s on her shoulders I see you everytime I look in the mirror and think about the times that I would pat myself on the back for not being too black afterall I think of you morning noon and night and I wonder just exactly what in hell is enough everytime I see a rope or gun I remember and to top it all of you ain't through yet over fifty you have killed in mississippi since 1963 that doesn't even begin to begin all of those you have maimed hit and run over blinded poisoned starved or castrated I hope you do not think that a vote for John Kennedy took you off my *************t list because in the street there will only be black and white there will be no Democrats Republicans Liberals Conservatives Moderates or any other of the rest of that *************t you have used to make me forget to hate
There ain't no enough there ain't no surrender there is only plot and plan move and groove kill there is no promise land there is only the promise the promise is not vowel until we have been nerve gassed shot down and murdered or done some of the same ourselves look over your shoulder mother******I am coming