Brian asked
Or we could marry the two questions and ask why
Chester Himes could get away
using "nigger" over and over again in 1959's THE
REAL COOL KILLERS, but had
to substitute "raper" for "fucker" when having
his African American
characters speak to each other, thus having the
unlikely words
"mother-raper" appear over and over again in
their Harlem vernacular.
Perhaps because the word motherfucker, when used
by African-Americans, contains a hidden meaning which is
'white man'.
John
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