The Murray Forman reading relates to the poem “When the Revolution Comes” by The Last Poets as they each discuss a black persons role/space in a society in comparison to perhaps an individual of “European descent”. When Cornel West describes how he had been trying to hail a cab for some time, and a  woman of European descent had caught a cab easier and quicker than him simply based off of her appearance, and acknowledged this by stating “This is ridiculous, is it not” to West, yet still proceeded to take the cab is a major connector to the piece “When the Revolution Comes” by the Last Poets as in the piece they say, “Understand the beginning to be the end and nothing is in between but space and time that I make or you make to relate or not to relate to the world outside my mind, your mind, speak not of revolution until you are willing to eat rats to survive. When the revolution comes”. This speaks volumes as they’re essentially saying that such inequalities are due to the fact that we as a society and integrated races, cultures, etc., don’t take the time to relate and collaborate with one another despite our differences. You can not “sympathize”, saying something is “ridiculous” and still use such discrimination and accept it for your own advantage.