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| writing, mos def, television, war criminals, insult wavs, girl power, salon, swear, robert b. weide, bill clinton, ben affleck, livingin oblivion (ws), adam goldberg, comments, graf, rap song, grumpytroll, james legros, lyric to tupac, | The incest taboo band has been around so long, if "motherfucker" were simply about that, it probably would band have been in the English lexicon centuries ago. But this is about a whole 'nother level of verbal violence. The power of "motherfucker" as an insult among African-American band men came from far more than what it said; it was all about what it EVOKED. It was calling someone so pathetically stupid, so wretched they didn't know who they mama wuz. It's about reminding them of their people's powerlessness (and their own). (If a man can't claim/control his own family, what kind of man IS he?) It's about slavery and white supremacy, and shame and self-loathing and rage turned inward and then projected outward again at "your own kind." |
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| I'm glad SOMEBODY finally did. Thanks. [edit] "the cynical destruction of the black family"? Historically, it graf was a vicious taunt, a damning insult -- and a veiled allusion to the cynical destruction of the black family under the brutality of chattel slavery. graf Does someone have a source for graf that? This page is starting to read as some kind of newspaper column. --Puffy jacket 05:10, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC) Well, whaddya know?!! A comment. You'll be pleased, Puffy -- maybe not -- that I've edited that phrase. I struggled with it from the beginning/didn't like it. It bothered me every time I read it -- but for different reasons. I didn't want folks to read it and think it implied forced incest was a common practice during slavery. A source? I doubt one exists. I sought to provide some historical context in my earlier comments in this section inre the cultural significance of verbal aggression and its various uses -- most notably in this instance, the practice of "signifyin'." |
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