THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED (re-visited)

Written  by Poet Gil Scott Heron in 1972

Revisited by Poet Bobby C. Richardson in 2013

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED (re-visited)

You will not be able to stay home Brothers and Sisters.  You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself in thought and slip; slip out for a 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 The Apple i phone 5,6,7,8,9 and 10 without commercial interruptions.  The Revolution will not show you pictures of Obama blowing a bugle like Gabriel, and leading a charge by Reverend Wright, General Petreaus and John Kerry, to eat fried Chicken confiscated from a Chicago Sanctuary. The Revolution will not be televised.  The Revolution will not be brought to you by C.N.N. or Aljazeera America and will not star Nicole Kidman or Morgan Freeman or Wolverine or The Incredible Hulk.  The Revolution will not inject collagen in your lips to Africanize them and give them sex appeal. The Revolution will not curl your hair to make it look more ethnic.  The Revolution will not inject collagen in your butt to make it more Africanize and plumper and firmer and sexier; because the Revolution won't care. There will be no U-tube of you and Rodney King pushing that shopping cart down the block to a dead end street or trying to slide that color television into a stolen car.  Fox News will not be able to predict another winner at 8:30 or report from 29 Districts and have it un-constitutionally approved by the U.S. Supreme Court.  The Revolution will not be televised.  There will be no U-tube of neighborhood Security Guards shooting down unarmed young Black men in the instant replay.  There will be no U-tube of cops shooting down unarmed young Black men in the instant replay.  There will be no U-tube of Whitney Houston singing "I will always love you" and there will be no U-tube of The Reverend Al Sharpton strolling through D.C. in a Red, Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving for just, "Such and Such an occasion".  Reality T.V. will no longer be so damned relevant, and women will not care if Oprah or any of the new female talk show hostesses keep bashing Heterosexual men; because Black people will be too busy in the streets looking for a better day.  The Revolution will not be televised.  There will be no highlights on the Eleven O'clock news and no U-tube of female liberationists protesting and screaming, "Keep your laws off our bodies".  The theme song will not be written by Burt Bacharach, nor rapped by Gil Scott Heron or Kanye West . The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will not be right back after a few messages about a "black  horse, black ice, or black  people".  You will not have to worry about a chicken in every pot, a bail out for your bank, or Wall Street being too big to fail.  The Revolution will not be bottled like God given free water and sold for a profit.  The Revolution will not fight foreign Wars on Foreign Lands only to come back home to be drafted in Zuckerbergs' Plan.  When its' all said and done The Revolution will indoctrinate you; Because The Revolution

Will not be Televised!

Will not be Televised!!

Will not be Televised!!!

The Revolution will be no Re-run Brothers and Sisters!

The Revolution will be LIVE!!!