In his short story the professor , langston hughes has portrayed in an ironic tone a docile and servile black professor who behaves humbly before the white .
At the closing rally of marxism 2009 , with all the seats eagerly taken but the air stale as ever in the main hall , the swp 's national organiser martin smith interrupts his speech to read a short poem by the radical american writer langston hughes called dream deferred .