National Poetry Month - Day 28Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised
9 years ago
Arrbyy
I'm with William Blum on this. "Gil Scott-Heron, now a ripe old 60, wa interviewed by the Washington Post...WP: What do you think now? Did we have a revolution? GS-H: Yes, the election of President Obama was the revolution.Oh? So that's it? That's what we took clubs over our heads for... tear gas, jail cells, and permanent police and FBI files... published a million issues of the underground press? To get a president who doesn't have a revolutionary bone in his body? Not a muscle or nerve or tissue or ogan that seriously questions cherished establishment beliefs concerning terrorism, permanent war, Israel, torture, marijuana, healthcare, and the primacy of profit over the environment and all else?..." -pgs 318, 319 of "America's Deadliest Export: Democracy"
9 years ago
leedsmanc
Ron Burgundy himself provided the accompaniment to this.
9 years ago
Liam O'Toole
A new elite no STUPID
9 years ago
Liam O'Toole
This shit probably makes no sense to you
9 years ago
Liam O'Toole
explain ?
9 years ago
Andrea Llewellyn
Wait a min..... That flute...... That tone.... Is that HUBERT LAWS?????
9 years ago
alan hathaway
To all the young souls marching nightly against police brutality, Your revolution will be televised. Young people are in the streets. March ON!
9 years ago
Jason Kreitzer
Different from any version of this that I've heard before, where he was using the vocal style that Michael Franti used on "Television, The Drug of the Nation" by Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy back in 1992.
9 years ago
Serge Casimir H. NYAMBO
To Ferguson black community: no lootings and shouting. Just apply these words.
9 years ago
Shane Elder
This brother had a keen understanding of media and hegemony. His poetry is still relevant, still prescient, still right on. The revolution will not be texted, will not be tweeted, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be live.
9 years ago
Alan Bombria
This needs to be reposted every now and then. The revolution will not be televised.