Gooood cracker!..........
Posted on 06/28/2013 8:02:10 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Who cares if Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a “creepy ass cracker”? White grievance-mongers, that’s who
Finally people on the right have begun to see that there may be an aspect of racism at the heart of the Trayvon Martin case – and predictably, it’s against accused killer George Zimmerman.
On Wednesday prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel, who was on her cellphone with Martin while he was being pursued by Zimmerman, actually testified that Martin told her he was being followed by “a creepy ass cracker.” But it wasn’t until Thursday that it blew up the right wing of the Internet – when Jeantel offered the badgering defense attorney Don West her opinion that the term isn’t racist.
From Glenn Beck’s the Blaze to the Breitbots to smaller right-wing shriekers to Twitter trolls everywhere, white grievance-mongers seemed less bothered by the fact that Martin allegedly used the term, than by Jeantel saying it wasn’t a slur.
For the record: I have been known to say “Jesus Christ on a cracker,” and I want to make clear I am not praying for the Son of God to jump a white person.
My God, don’t these people get tired of themselves? So much of the trumped-up racial upset on the right, generally, is about language: If black people can use the N-word, why can’t we? (Even Paula Deen tried to use that as self-defense at first.) Now we’re moving on to: If the N-word is racist and forbidden, words like “cracker” should be, too.
But “cracker” has never had the same power to demean, or to exile, or to sting. No social order has ever been devised whereby African-Americans oppress people they deride as “crackers.”
We don’t even really know where the term comes from. I’ve seen it suggested that enslaved black people invented it because of the “crack” of the slavemaster’s whip, but it was used by planter class elites to describe the hardscrabble Scots-Irish dating back to the late 18thcentury. (Both meanings could be true.) If it’s demeaning at all — and some white Southerners have embraced it — it derives from white-on-white snobbery. But like most discussions of white class distinctions in this country, this one will be preempted … because black racism!
Still, I’m not sure why Zimmerman defense attorney Don West zeroed in on Martin’s use of the term, or even less relevant, what Jeantel thought it meant. (For the record, she seemed to focus on the “crazy ass” part and said she thought Martin was trying to describe a “pervert” pursuing him, which is why she said she told him to run away.) Those shocked by the fact that she didn’t see a racial slur in Martin calling Zimmerman “cracker” might note that she also said her friend told her “the nigga is behind me,” right before Zimmerman caught up to Martin. Maybe that proves Martin is the real racist!
On the week that the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act because we’ve supposedly come so far in eradicating racism, there’s a perverse kind of political poetry in the outcry on the right over the use of the word “cracker” here. Let’s remember: a white and Latino man is on trial for killing a young black man, in a clash that began because the white/Latino man thought the black man was hanging around someplace where he didn’t belong, looking “like he’s up to no good.” But let’s freak out over the victim reportedly describing the accused as a “cracker.” Crackers, please …
Appropriate response from a crackuh: What’d you call me mo’ fo’?
Why would a black male describe a white male as a n*gga..?
Cuz n*gga means “male”.
And HO means female.
Sad huh..? But datS da TRUFF.
Ah... the author reveals the heart of her grievance - that blacks have no word that causes oppression to white people.
We need to start greeting each other with "whuddup ma'cracka?".
See how that works?
Gooood cracker!..........
This is the second article I've read this mornign that suggests white folks have dedicated their lives to finding ways of saying the N-word and getting a way with it.
Quite silly.
And that upsets them to no end.... ma’cracka.
I’m going to start my own rap group, C.W.A.
Our first CD “Straight Outta Sanford” should be out soon.
Ahh, you dog! That’ll be best new handle of the year. ;^)
... said the thoroughly white elitist snob Salon editor 1% cracker ...
Yeah, it’s come to pass that groups of black youths don’t use racial slurs against whites they want to demean or oppress - they just beat them to death, starting with a sucker punch.
Ah, it was refreshing to read my morning dose of uber intellect from that bastion of high IQ lib arts majors.
The best part was thanking my lucky stars that I had the good luck to actually get sufficient training in logic whilst at university.
Salon, take your race baiting and shove it up your smelly collective Obamas.
The sort of racism she is missing is like accidentally stepping on a garden rake that's lying on the ground and having the handle fly up and smack you in the face.
She should step on that rake a few more times until she gets the clue, then come back to class for show and tell with something worth talking about.
That might work for her, but my guess is she'll just want to ban garden rakes. Clueless is as clueless does.
Your link doesn’t go to the story.
another apologist. The comments on that article for the most part make me ill. I see so many stupid people.
But “cracker” has never had the same power to demean, or to exile, or to sting. No social order has ever been devised whereby African-Americans oppress people they deride as “crackers.” We don’t even really know where the term comes from.
If were talking about pumpernickel crackers, I'm pretty sure someone on the left would get upset.
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