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A comment. You'll be pleased, poem Puffy -- maybe not -- that I've edited that phrase. I struggled with it from the beginning/didn't like it. It poem 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 poem 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'." The incest taboo has been around so long, if "motherfucker" were simply about that, it probably would 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 men came from far more than what it said; it was all about what it EVOKED.
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