"African Americans have a genius for subverting, perverting, and commodifying English is beyond argument. You can go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, now and hear locals dream of coming to America to live the “Thug Life.” Nigger is further proof that African American speech possesses the secret of juju, what some Afrocentrists identify as wordsoundpower, a force akin to that which novelist Frank Herbert ascribed to his character Muad’Dib in Dune who understood his name as a “killing word.” A central, philosophical question that should be on the table of every Black forum going today is, What are the limits of Black symbolic, legal, and moral victories over white power in America? Another way to ask the question might be, Whatever happened to Black Power? Or Foucauldian Power, for that matter."