The Revolution will
not be Televised
2014 the Summer of
Discontent
You will not be able
to stay at home and play with your video games, my brother
You will not be able
to download the latest porno flick and simply lose yourself
You will not be able
to roll up a blunt and poor a glass of Ciroc
Text your boo thang and
let her know you’ll be through in 45 minutes
Because the
revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will
not be televised
The revolution will
not be brought to you by Puffy/P-Diddy or any other hip-hop artist
Or will be hosted by
DJ Drama
The revolution will
not show you pictures of Obama with cool shades on dapping up Jay-Z and Beyonce
with Michelle standing off in the cut nodding here head to “Partition”
The Revolution will
not be televised
The revolution will
not be brought to you via satellite in HD with subtext and a Spanish
interpreter and will not have guest appearances by Kevin Hart or a tribute to
T.D Jakes or a special appearance by Rev Al or Jessie
The revolution will
not get you to Heaven but will accept your contributions.
The revolution will
not make you popular
The revolution will
not make you slimmer if you commit to a plan of 5 days a week and 2 hours a
night, Family.
There will be no post
of you taking a selfie next to a burnt out storefront or an overturned vehicle
for anyone to like on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
There won’t be any Google
analytics to help you get to the top of a web page or trending topics for you
to Tweet
The revolution will
not be televised.
There won’t be a
Happy Hour with a roped off VIP and bottle services or valet to park your car,
Uber and Lift won’t be available to drop you off. You won’t be able to use acronyms like lol, lmao or ijs to
describe the time you are having to your BMF or BFF.
The revolution will
not be televised.
Real Housewives of Atlanta,
Love and Hip Hop or Scandal wont be so damn relevant because it won’t matter
who slept with who or who got shot.
Folks will be rioting
in the streets because they will know the names of who got shot (Michael Brown,
Timothy Stansbury, Oscar Grant, Aaron Campbell, Alonzo Ashley, Wendell Allen,
Eric Garner, Jonathan Ferrell, Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis) - the pain and
the blood will be more real than any housewife in Atlanta and the love will be
so deep that not to start a revolution will be the least of the scandals that
people will be worried about.
There will be no Fox
News commentary to slant the views of what went on or Don Lemon to tell the
world they called me the N word and no hash tag to start a trend or motherly
looking white women to say it could have been my child.
The theme song won’t
be “Happy” or contain folks singing
and dancing with smiles on their faces, instead James Brown’s the “Big Payback” or Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” might be playing in the
background
The Revolution will
not be televised
The Revolution will
not return right after a message about
Christian Singles or
E-Harmony.
You wont have to
listen out for jingles that say they would like to buy the world a Coke and
fill it with perfect harmony or even tell you to have a Coke and a smile. It won’t contain the most interesting man
in the world, but might have images of angry people both black and white
The Revolution won’t
be safer in a Subaru or in the suburbs or allow you time to comparative
shopping for his and her matching Glocs
The Revolution will
put you in the front seat and disrupt all your creature comforts.
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 family;
The revolution will be live.
Dr. Irvin PeDro Cohen
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