{"id":1401,"date":"2011-05-31T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-05-31T22:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T20:16:19","slug":"the-revolution-will-not-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised\/","title":{"rendered":"The revolution will not be televised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dice mi amigo Leon Black:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only heard the news of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gil_Scott-Heron\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Scott Heron<\/a>&#8216;s death today. The revolution will not be televised, still one of the best tracks ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Esta es la letra (en espa\u00f1ol <a href=\"http:\/\/lapizynube.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/revolution-will-not-be-televised.html\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You will not be able to stay home, brother.<br \/>\nYou will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.<br \/>\nYou will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,<br \/>\nSkip out for beer during commercials,<br \/>\nBecause the revolution will not be televised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The revolution will not be televised.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox<br \/>\nIn 4 parts without commercial interruptions.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon<br \/>\nblowing a bugle and leading a charge by John<br \/>\nMitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat<br \/>\nhog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not be televised.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution will not be brought to you by the<br \/>\nSchaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie<br \/>\nWoods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not get rid of the nubs.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not make you look five pounds<br \/>\nthinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no pictures of you and Willie May<br \/>\npushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,<br \/>\nor trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.<br \/>\nNBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32<br \/>\nor report from 29 districts.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not be televised.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down<br \/>\nbrothers in the instant replay.<br \/>\nThere will be no pictures of pigs shooting down<br \/>\nbrothers in the instant replay.<br \/>\nThere will be no pictures of Whitney Young being<br \/>\nrun out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.<br \/>\nThere will be no slow motion or still life of Roy<br \/>\nWilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and<br \/>\nGreen liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving<br \/>\nFor just the proper occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville<br \/>\nJunction will no longer be so damned relevant, and<br \/>\nwomen will not care if Dick finally gets down with<br \/>\nJane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people<br \/>\nwill be in the street looking for a brighter day.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not be televised.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no highlights on the eleven o&#8217;clock<br \/>\nnews and no pictures of hairy armed women<br \/>\nliberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.<br \/>\nThe theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,<br \/>\nFrancis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom<br \/>\nJones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not be televised.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution will not be right back after a message<br \/>\nbbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.<br \/>\nYou will not have to worry about a dove in your<br \/>\nbedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not go better with Coke.<br \/>\nThe revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.<br \/>\nThe revolution will put you in the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,<br \/>\nwill not be televised, will not be televised.<br \/>\nThe revolution will be no re-run brothers;<br \/>\nThe revolution will be live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dice mi amigo Leon Black: Only heard the news of Gil Scott Heron&#8216;s death today. The revolution will not be televised, still one of the best tracks ever. Esta es la letra (en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed): You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The revolution will not be televised<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[722,721],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divagaciones","tag-revolution","tag-scott-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}