Word: muthah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with this production. In 1961, I don't think black people understood as fully as we do today the difference between anger and hatred. Genet uses the word "hatred" constantly in this play. Anger is the kind of thing Ed Bullins is writing about, and Leroi Jones, with "eighteen muthah-fuckahs" and "I'm gonna kill yoah ass" and all that. Which is perfectly valid, and thef're absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi...
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