Motherfucker

An epithet that goes back to slave days. Back then, the man in power, the slave owner, was as likely as not, a rapist who took advantage of his position to sexually assault slaves. If you were a slave, it was probable that he was raping your mother on a regular basis--hence the term. To call someone in power a motherfucker is to cast light on the genealogical ties that connect their current abuse of power with the history of power imbalance and abuse in this nation.

Rolling Thunder #1 (Summer 2005)