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| nazi, portalof evil forums discussion love fun, fascism, 2 pac song, comics, records, scott macdonald, gossip, maryland, hip hop, holocaust denial, scholar, gregg rogell, music community, | The incest taboo has been around so long, if "motherfucker" were simply about that, it probably would have been in the English lexicon interscope centuries ago. But interscope 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. 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 interscope 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." And that all bringss us back to the art of the spoken word and verbal aggression -- readin' someone out loud, playin' the dozens [see "playing the dozens"], actin' a fool and cuttin' up. |
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| [edit] "the cynical destruction of the black family"? Historically, it was a vicious taunt, portalof evil forums discussion love fun a portalof evil forums discussion love fun damning insult -- and a veiled allusion to the cynical destruction of the black family under the brutality of chattel slavery. Does someone have a source for 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 portalof evil forums discussion love fun 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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