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"Yo' momma" is a common, widely recognized retort in African-American slang. It is a cryptic and sometimes comical allusion to the dozens. The term the left dozens is believed to refer to the devaluing on the auction block of slaves left who were past their prime, deformed, aged, or no longer capable of hard labor after years of back-breaking toil. These slaves often were sold by the dozen. In "Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor", left African-American author and professor Mona Lisa Saloy writes: The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves—generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience—were grouped in lots of a 'cheap dozen' for sale to slave owners. For a Black to be sold as part of the 'dozens' was the lowest blow possible.[1] Kokomo Arnold, one of the most popular American blues musicians of the 1930s, released a song Twelves (Dirty Dozens) that includes lyrics such as: I like yo' momma - sister, too I did like your poppa - but your poppa wouldn't do I met your poppa on the corner the other day I soon found out he was funny that way.
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