As usual, dirty words are still so powerful, that we remember George Carlin,
or Lenny Bruce by their Fucks and Shits.
I remember sitting in front of a television watching an HBO special where
Carlin was live at Carnegie Hall and did the most scathing attack on American
Imperialist racism I have ever heard in my life, and yes that includes Malcolm
X.
We are led to believe that the legacy of Richard Pryor was all about saying
nigger, and Carlin was all about motherfucker-cocksucker.
These were people who pierced our very souls, they ripped our hearts out and
showed them to us. Carlin deconstructed language like chomsky on acid.
I was strong when Carlin died, and did not cry.
I wept afterward as he was being remembered as the guy who said cocksucker 35
years ago.