In 1972 Gill Scott Heron wrote this masterpiece poem/song. I just reread it and while its 25 years old it seems as relevant these days (2000 election also) then ever. I thought years ago it was more militant but perhaps now it speaks more about self empowerment.


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,
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 Theatre 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 television 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 in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in 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 Hooterville
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
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a 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.

I'm sorry. I don't see anything in there about the Knicks.

Knicks playoffs games will not be televised.
They won't be played.

Posted by eViL:

Knicks playoffs games will not be televised.
They won't be played.

You got it man! I was wondering who was going to tie it in!

I think Dolan, the whore he is will realize no knick TV revenue!

There will be know slashing and dashing, no Clyde, The playoff games will not be televised!
Isiah will not be spiffy in his euro cut suites, The playoff games will not be televised!
Francis will not wince and over play his bumps and bruises to get out of games, The playoff games will not be televised!
Marbury won't scowl, The playoff games will not be televised!
Balkman won't look like he is having fun, The playoff games will not be televised!
Kenny the Jet will be silanced, The playoff games will not be televised!
Pat Ewing will have to got to New Jersey to watch, The playoff games will not be televised!
The Bulls will play deep in the playoffs and then have our pick,The playoff games will not be televised!
Nate won't understand a thing Im saying, The playoff games will not be televised!
Larry will make more money than Isiah, The playoff games will not be televised!
We'll wish for starphuchs and other dreams,The playoff games will not be televised!
This bud won't be for you, Imus can sleep late, and Cube will whine, The playoff games will not be televised!
Progress is not as evident as it is subliminal, The playoff games will not be televised!
Mo Almond, Mo Pete, Mo Better, The playoff games will not be televised!

They will not be televised, because they will not be played!