Will Liverman performs as Malcolm X in ‘’We’re not askin’ Massa to sit at a lunch counter,” an act II aria from “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”
TRANSCRIPT
Were not askin Massa to sit at a lunch counter.
We want self determination.
We want to get our people off of dope, off alcohol, off the welfare rolls.
We must rebuild the Black family and our communities, ravaged by despair.
We need to look to our Brothers in Africa, taking back... ...their plundered countries, tellin Massa what time it is.
We need to work, we need jobs, and we need to create them.
‘Cause we know if Whites are forced to give us their jobs, therell be war.
Therell be war.
- A bloody race war.
- Bloody race war.
We want freedom, justice, equality.
Black people down south sit in, and rednecks sic dogs on them -- Bomb their churches.
Now, who are the law-breakers... ...who are the violent ones?
Muslims dont expect anybody to give our people freedom.
We want to stand up against racism, all Black people-- Together!
