I understand the word to be from Florida ranchers cracking their whips to move cattle.
So..........latinos are crackers too?
Prosecution and allied media have spent how much time, attempting to depict racial animus on the part of George Zimmerman? Yet here we have not just an admission but actual use in open court of term that really is racially derogatory, but it’s dismissed, explained away. If racial animus provides a pretext for attacking, it provides a pretext for attacking, but the attacker would be Trayvon Martin, consistent with what George Zimmerman has claimed all along.
Yeah, especially when used with the "creepy-ass" modifier, that just tells you that it's "non-derogatory".
Right?
From the article: “Initially, cracker was not a pejorative term, but Ferris says it has become one, the equivalent of redneck.”
I put it to anyone out there that ‘cracker’ is a good bit more of a pejorative term than ‘redneck’. I’ve been called a ‘Saltine’ in the Bronx. ‘Redneck’ would have seemed like jocular repartee, in contrast.
“So Traydmark could’ve been charged with a “hate crime” had he survived his encounter? Who here thinks that ever would’ve happened?”
It’s pretty evident that all those ‘hate crime’ laws were intended as ‘rights for me, but not for thee’. Time to flip the script on them, seems to me.
Traydmark......funny....very funny...kudos...
I'll only accept a white person using that word and not take it offensively. It is only for us
Let’s be real...in this day and age, it’s a synonym for wmf
” . . . some in Florida use the term in a non-derogatory, colloquial sense.”
I just wish they didn’t think we are so stupid. Of course “creepy ass cracker” is a racial slur and everyone with even half a brain knows it.
Does anyone remember the Atlanta Crackers? They were a baseball team in the Southern League.
Being a life-long privileged white male in the South, I have another view on the use of the N-word and Cracker.
When a white uses the N-word, they are saying “the best you can do in life is be a slave” with overtones of the target being a very stupid farm animal, not a full-fledged human.
When a black calls a white “cracker” these days, it is a very weak curse that either rolls off the back of the white or misses entirely. I have friends who laugh at the use, thinking it far less offensive than “redneck”.
One friend recently said that the N-word is a hand grenade and “cracker” is a Nerf ball, and when whites ignore the curse or act perplexed, it just make the Nerf ball thrower even madder.
I always thought that the term “cracker” originated as a term to the white’s who “cracked the whip.” I always laugh at those that use the term as a slur about white people, in reality it is nothing but an admission by the user that he/she is nothing more that chattle that needs to be motivated at the crack of a whip held in the hands of the person they are trying to deride.
Hispanics are crackers, too? Who knew?
Who gives a crap about the origins of the word cracker? What does that have to do with what was meant on the witness chair? Is anybody seriously doubting that it was and is racial in nature. This idea that most blacks are not racial is BS!
Judge: “Bailiff, I want that man charged with impersonating a cracker!”
- Dr Detroit
I don't believe this.
It would appear that Rachel did not interpret the comment as a “crazy-ass cracker,” but as a “crazy ass-cracker,” a whole different kind of pejorative.