Thursday, January 3, 2008

The Automobile of a Revolutionary


I spotted this incredible car parked on Damen today. A total POS 1980s Buick painted with white and red stripes like the mythical jaguar shark that ate Esteban. No bumper stickers to be found, just one prominent decal stuck next to the rear left window. The guy's face looks like DJ Run, but the words underneath suggest an insurrectionary from the Nation of Islam. With Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" playing on my iPod, I started to picture the driver of this car as a secret agent of Black Power waiting to incite class warfare so that, as Gil says,

...Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.

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