Inspired by the incredibly powerful “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” By Gil Scott-Heron
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
The Revolution will not come with cute and inoffensive hashtags
Audience tested by right-leaning independents and critical age demographics
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
The Revolution will not filter for the sake of November
It will not have carefully thought out tie-ins approved by the Leadership, carefully vetted,
Designed to roll off the tongue, soothe your nerves and ease your fears
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
The Revolution is not about living your best life
There will be no pictures of kittens or fun memes
There will be no control on who Tweets what or when
You will not stop the enemy from taking things out of context
Making up lies
Causing confusion
Acting in bad faith
Repeating the same debunked disinformation over and over
No change of hashtag will stop Fox News or OANN
From Owning the Libs and pwning the powerless
Tucker Carlson will not be fair and balanced
Laura Ingraham will not care about your hashtag
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
Sadly, Brother Scott-Heron was wrong
There will be pictures of pigs shooting down brothers
All over Twitter and Instagram
You will see brave sisters clubbed, groped and tazered by police
On YouTube or wherever you stream user content
You will see old people, young people, black, brown, white
Every color of the Rainbow and every sex and gender
Standing up to a tide of Blue in the black smoke with
The tear gas and the flash bangs and the rubber bullets flying
And you will see it over and over and over and over
Black people are in the street, demanding a brighter day
And they are not alone
The Revolution will not be focus grouped
The Revolution will not be artistically backlit, or retroactively gaslit
You will not hear about it from teaser trailers or viral videos made by commercial studios
You will not get woke from The View or set free by The Five
The Revolution will not be convenient to binge watch
The Revolution is not a dinner party
The Revolution is Black Men, Black Women, Black Children
All Shouting “I can’t breathe, and You WILL GET THE FUCK OFF MY NECK RIGHT NOW!”
The Revolution will not be tone policed.
The Revolution will not use polite language.
The Revolution will not be focus grouped.
The Revolution will not be focused grouped
The Revolution will not be focused grouped
The Revolution is hashtag live!