The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Song by Gil Scott-Heron ‧ 1971, Quoted by Kendrick Lamar in his Superb 13-Minute Super Bowl Sunday 2025, Half-Time Show

This statement appears in a poem by Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011), a man whose work deeply influenced social consciousness. Kendrick Lamar quoted it during his masterful performance on Super Bowl Sunday (https://bit.ly/3XmUL0L). Had Black people drawn more inspiration from Gil Scott-Heron and other activists and poets of his era, their challenges might have unfolded differently. They should be more hands-on in their revolutionary quest for deliverance from system oppression.

Moreover, if Black consumers studied and emulated the Black Wall Streets of the past, they could foster greater prosperity by building conscientious, self-sustaining communities. Close-knit communities working for the collective good could direct their economic power inward—investing in resources that create lasting financial solvency. With Black consumer spending power estimated at $1.6 to $1.98 trillion, there is immense potential to cultivate economic independence.

However, to harness this power effectively, Black communities must turn from equating material possessions with self-worth, identity, knowledge, agency, or personal power. A shift toward valuing quality over quantity would ensure that this spending power translates into something tangible and enduring.

PushBack advocates for having “boots on the ground”—actively engaging in economic and social progress—rather than being consumed by desk jobs, digital distractions, entertainment, and television. This wisdom, though paraphrased, remains a crucial call to action.

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Annotations:

1. https://bit.ly/3QylOTf. Black Consumer Spending Power: The Black Wall Street article highlights that Black buying power in the U.S. is projected to reach approximately $1.98 trillion by 2025, reflecting a steady increase that underscores the economic influence of the Black community.

2. https://bit.ly/3EWgsyp. Economic Influence in Key Sectors: Nielsen's report, "Black Impact: Consumer Categories Where African Americans Move Markets," emphasizes that Black consumers significantly influence various markets, including beauty, personal care, and media. This influence showcases the community's substantial role in shaping trends and driving economic growth.

3. https://mck.co/41wX6IW. Opportunities for Growth and Equity: McKinsey & Company's article, "The state of Black consumers: An opportunity for growth and equity," discusses the projected expansion of Black consumers' collective economic power from about $910 billion in 2019 to $1.7 trillion by 2030. The article also highlights the importance of integrating racial equity goals into consumer businesses to better serve Black consumers and address existing disparities.

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw; https://youtu.be/Xh08PtK-NoE?si=kUy0A0VZW6yoH0dm. "The Revolution will not be Televised," a song on Gil Scott-Heron's 1971 Album "Pieces of a Man". Stanza 1 of the lyrics: 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 out for beer during commercials, because/The revolution will not be televised. The second link is Gil Scott-Heron telling “His-Story" or the truth that whites whitewashed. Every line rhymes. Heron penned his creations for the most part. He created or wrote this The Revolution ~~. He was a prolific poet- songwriter; as Kendrick Lamar is today. The lyrics to the song are haunting being so true to the freedom struggle.

Celebrating Black History Month: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future

February is Black History Month, a time to honor and celebrate the rich and profound contributions that African Americans made throughout history and before the history of the USA. The distinction here is that before this was a USA, it was a colony of the British; and, except for the many Black people who were already in this land, African Americans were chattel of white slave owners. Our ancestors’ contributions though profound, were exacted from them by slavers under the symbol of the whip, chains, and backbreaking work. This month serves as a reminder of the strength, resilience, and determination that has shaped not only Black communities but our entire nation.

If America reflects on the past, Black History Month offers us the opportunity to reflect on the powerful legacies left behind by iconic figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, and others too numerous to tell. Their courage burdens of adversity and discrimination, of slavery, The Reconstruction, yoked under Jim Crow Laws, fighting for civil rights, voting rights, and much more, paved the way for freedom and justice. They encourage us to continue in our struggle, and for the progress we continue to strive for every day.

We celebrate ourselves and all those who’ve in the past and today, given us cause for optimism and faith that when we honor the past, and when we also celebrate the achievements of contemporary Black leaders, artists, innovators, and activists, we also know that activism is a rainbow. From trailblazers in science and technology to cultural icons in music, art, and literature, the contributions of Black individuals continue to enrich and diversify our world.

Black History Month is not only about reflection but also about inspiration. It reminds us of the ongoing fight for equality and justice. It's a call to action, urging us to continue advocating for change, supporting Black-owned businesses, and educating ourselves about the systemic challenges that still exist. This February, let's take the time all month long to educate ourselves, support Black communities, and celebrate the incredible achievements of African Americans. Let’s make every effort to help honor the legacy of the human rights struggle in America and promote a more inclusive future, despite what we see happening in our country today.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY - HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

As of November 5, 2024, a newly elected president has been given power and usurped power that is not rightfully his. That president has amassed a swarm of "little ones" who will do his bidding at all costs because they either love him or fear him or admire him or want to be him. He is a powerful Cult leader. What he is to Black people is an enemy. There has come an enemy of Black History Month, Black People's holidays, Black people's books, Black people's music, Black people's education, Black families, Black religion, and Black people's culture overall. 

Black people were among those who built this country; Black slaves built the White House, and Black slaves then slaved inside the White House as servants of all kinds. Today, Black people have no more value in the eyes of white (and non-white) bigots than they had during slavery, except as the value of chattel. You know, horses, cows, chickens, goats, and sheep, for example. 

Blacks had value only in terms of money from slave labor. This administration will prove what they deem to be the value of Blacks - the educated, the non-educated, and the in-between alike. Yet most Blacks know there are symbols right now of white bigots' valuation of Black skin: the most atrocious one is mass incarceration in for-profit prisons. These are private tools for keeping Black families divided, Black children are always vulnerable to losing a father or a mother to the local, state, and federal prison system or collectively, the Criminal Justice System. 

This tool of oppression was instituted after the Civil War to continue keeping Blacks in bondage. Following the Civil War, "mass incarceration" primarily refers to the disproportionate imprisonment of African Americans in the South, largely due to the loophole in the 13th Amendment which allowed for "punishment for a crime" as an exception to slavery, leading to the creation of "Black Codes" and a system of convict leasing that effectively re-enslaved freed Black people through criminalization and forced labor; this practice is considered a significant root cause of modern mass incarceration in the United States today. 

Mass incarceration is still possibly the main method of destroying Black communities and Black families and creating most single-mother households. On the other hand, Black women are overrepresented in the US prison system, with a higher incarceration rate than white women. This disparity is rooted in systemic racism and structural inequalities.  For-profit prisons are continually being built. The enemy is, in addition, working on the evil idea of sending American citizens to foreign lands to be housed in those for-profit prisons. We should be aware of that. We should be the first to stand against it before the enemy of all that is good and right makes it known that it is a done deal.

https://bit.ly/3EQk0SH Black male incarceration vs. white male incarceration

https://bit.ly/3CTgLJS Black incarcerated women versus white incarcerated women

https://bit.ly/4i1hhnJ Extreme sentences harm Black women

https://bit.ly/42R11BE Incarcerated women and girls

“Slavery by Another Name” by Douglas A. Blackmon (the author follows the lives of ex-slaves as far as possible, documenting the raw brutality of this type of master-slave relationship)

https://bit.ly/4gYnal3 The US leads the world in the number of prisons; Texas leads the states

https://bit.ly/3X3LEC1 Trump exploring deporting US citizens to El Salvadorian prisons

An American Senior Citizen's Resolve to Persevere in the Trump Era of Terror

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/president-donald-trump-executive-orders-list

As a senior citizen, I could panic about the executive orders that affect my cohort group. However, I can't become sick by things not in my control. If I worry about what I see now, and what is coming, I cannot pray. If I worry, I can't pray. So, I pray. Prayers of faith result in works so faith is not a dead thing. We need to be alert and willing to fight for what we've lost. We must care enough rather than allow lethargy to disable our will. We need the willpower to overcome all antagonists that oppose the right way. Collective willpower can be a steel wall against the fascist acts coming against us - all at once. We must have the will to fight for the right way. We will all be lost if we don't. That's the bottom line. Wake up. Get up. It's the right thing to do. Or be lost.

Trump's War on HIV-AIDS and Other Victims

 

We have entered the Dark Ages - again. Freedom freedom, where are you? Freedom, Freedom, I need you.

"Freedom
Tryna rain, tryna rain on the thunder
Tell the storm I'm new
I'm a wall, come and march on the regular
Painting white flags blue
Lord forgive me, I've been running
Running blind in truth
I'ma rain, I'ma rain on this bitter love
Tell the sweet I'm new
I'm telling these tears, go and fall away, fall away
May the last one burn into flames
Freedom
Freedom
I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose
Singin', freedom
Freedom
Where are you?
'Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves
I'ma wade, I'ma wave through the waters
Tell the tide, "Don't move"
I'ma riot, I'ma riot through your borders
Call me bulletproof
Lord forgive me, I've been runnin'
Runnin' blind in truth
I'ma wade, I'ma wave through your shallow love
Tell the deep I'm new
I'm telling these tears, go and fall away, fall away
May the last one burn into flames
Freedom
Freedom
I can't move
Freedom, cut me loose
Singin', freedom
Freedom
Where are you?
'Cause I need freedom, too
I break chains all by myself
Won't let my freedom rot in hell
Hey! I'ma keep running
'Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"
Excerpt from "Freedom" by Beyonce.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/multiple-health-agency-websites-hiv-contraception-comply-executive/story?id=118335484&fbclid=IwY2xjawILqd9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQNOeVWgGNHZKJq0JHo0FEA1HFzSIsmPzOL25DgIRqolqixbNAfg6_Akxg_aem_Un9facZP4Cm606OjezvNDw

Israel's Eighth Decade of Living on the Stolen Land of an Occupied Palestinian People

Israel's Eighth Decade of the Creation of the State of Israel

 Israel's approaching its end, it's said. Modern Israel is in the third "Eightieth Year Curse" or its Eighth Decade of existence as a State and illegal occupier of the land which Gentiles and converted Jews (Gentiles) stole from the Indigenous people of Palestine or Caanan. Its lethal occupation of the Palestinians curse has been a curse to themselves.

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220512-the-curse-of-the-eighth-decade-and-the-end-of-israel/

https://mizrachi.org/hamizrachi/the-curse-of-the-eighth-decade/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-religious-significance-of-israel/

Israel Massacres 40-41 people in a tent city it deemed safe for desparate, displaced people to go.

Israel has indeed, again and again, defied all the supposedly "official humanitarian and political agencies. Sunday, Israel dropped bombs on a civilian tent city that Israel declared a safe zone for displaced Palestinians.

Now, Israeli demented "heads" try to save face because they are wary of the ICC and IJC, since its lapdog, the United States President Joe Biden, has not bribed the prosecutors into dropping the charges. This would be tragic because Israel already has the rights from the international community (rich, white people) to further its Genocide of the Palestinian People. 

Israel has killed 36 Palestinians so far