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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scott-Heron

Maybe this should be in the EWW, but I couldn't wait another week to post this.

Because things have been all sorts of messed up lately I thought I would post this video, along with the lyrics/poem to go along with it.

I think it is very relevant to what's happening in the media today, especially with all this cops vs. black lives, black lives vs. all lives matter, LGBTQ vs Black Lives Matter, people turning on each other at every corner, etc.

The Television Will Not Be Televised: the title in itself is amazingly powerful, and I believe that this song/poem should be watched/read at least three (3) times in a lifetime.

Please give it a listen, message me via Contact Koral and let me know your view/opinion/thoughts on the song/poem/current world issues.

(see lyrics/poem below)

You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag And skip out for beer during commercials Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In 4 parts without commercial interruptions The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws Confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theater and will not star Natalie Woods And Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal The revolution will not get rid of the nubs The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner Because the revolution will not be televised, Brother

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 Or report from 29 districts The revolution will not be televised

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the instant replay

There will be no pictures of Whitney Young Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkens Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving For just the proper occasion

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hooter ville Junction Will no longer be so damned relevant And women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane On search for tomorrow because black people Will be in the street looking for a brighter day The revolution will not be televised

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be right back after a message About a white tornado, white lightning, or white people You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom The tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl The revolution will not go better with Coke The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath The revolution will put you in the driver's seat

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised Will not be televised, will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run brothers The revolution will be live

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