"Top 10 Gil Scott-Heron jokes"
10) Gil Scott-Heron would have written these jokes, if Whitey weren't on the Moon.
9) The Soul of the Black Panther Era can not be fully contained by a Gil Scott-Heron album, but it sure sounds better that way.
8) Would you download The Bottle by Gil Scott-Heron if it didn't include his juice?
7) You can take Whitey off of the Moon, but you can't take Gil Scott-Heron out of afro-american beat poet history.
6) Would America's armed forces be dropping bombs or droppin' beats if Gil Scott-Heron were President?
5) If Gil Scott-Heron and the Devil had a spoken word battle before a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden, it would be televised.
4) Would the works of Gil Scott-Heron be an internet meme if a rat had not bitten his sister Nell?
3) You can dissect and bisect the Pieces of a Man, but you can't fuse Gil Scott-Heron with strict obedience to authority and the status quo.
2) Would America's economy be in the state that it's in, if Gil Scott-Heron were President?
... and the #1 war criminal joke is:
1) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- it will be shared online.
Reference: Yasha Harari for thedailydose.harari.org.
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