Posted on 03/29/2022 5:37:10 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In this day and age, it is mainly used by black people as a derogatory term for whites they have a problem with. I see it as no different than the ‘word’ they complain about.
What’s the big deal? Obama said “the N word” on national TV. Anybody should be able to say it since then.
Now that you mention it, that is what I remember. Truth is, I never really thought about it much because the term never meant anything to me. I find the word about as offensive as “saltine”, which is my preferred type of cracker.
That becomes "brainwashing."
Good on you...my understanding is that Florida Cracker also refers to an architectural style that was popular in Florida back in the day. One of the distinct features is a sloped metal roof iirc. My aunt who moved to Florida after WW2 knew all these things, but she has since passed away.
Went to a Popeye’s near Sacramento. Actually surprised to see all the employees were black. I had no idea.
They were polite, professional and quick.
No problem.
Good chicken.
I should point out that it is noteworthy that Colton Norsworthy is not a name that can be lost on the internet.
There are probably not a whole lot of Floridians named Colton Norsworthy and that is noteworthy if your name is Norsworthy and trying to find a job that is noteworthy.
It goes back further.
“The first reference to a cracker in Florida appears in 1790, when the Spanish governor of East Florida wrote that the crackers in Florida were wild, nomadic and would not heed government authority.”
Gradually it became a turn applied to Florida cow hunters who cracked whips when rounding up the pretty much wild free roaming cattle in Florida.
I took a linguistics course once on Engish dialects, and Cracker was one of them. If I remember right, it’s mostly from the Florida panhandle.
Indeed when the race card is down for the count induce CPR.
Racism is one of the biggest money producers the left has.
Eh? Wasn’t talking about that.
Coincidentally, the American Rifleman, April 22, has an article “Cavalry Arms of the American Revolution with a slightly earlier reference ( but not Florida, rather the Colonial South):
“With rifles and sabres, these men were more on the order of what Europeans would term dragoons.
A British officer aptly described the mounted Patriot militia in the South, ‘… The crackers and militia in those parts of America are all mounted on horse-back … . When they chuse to fight, they dismount, and fasten their horses to the fences and rails; but if not very confident in the superiority of their numbers, they remain on horseback, give their fire, and retreat, which renders it useless to attack them without cavalry … . ‘ “
My Mom’s uncle who lived in Florida many moons ago called himself a Florida “Cracker”.
Exactly. This ramming race crap down people’s throats is causing resentment and isn’t solving any problems.
The Democrats have deliberately destroyed all of the progress that had been made in race relations in the decades following the civil rights movement in the 60s.
Who cares. There are endless black commentators, professors, politicians, and other assorted racists who spout “black supremacy “ all day everyday.
Thanks for that very interesting excerpt.
Not sure what he was upset about since being called a “cracker” in Florida is not an insult at all. A cracker is what native born Floridians are called, after Florida cowboys, who herded and drove their cattle through the palmettos with whips. It has nothing to do with race.
It has to do with cracking a whip, but nothing to do with slavery. It has to do with herding cattle, and a very hardy breed of horse known as cracker horses were used. There were cowboys in Florida long before there were cowboys out west, and in Florida the noise of a whip was how cattle were driven through our thick undergrowth. At one point, cattle were raised in Florida, then driven west along the same path as would one day be known as US highway 10, to be fattened up elsewhere, such as in Texas.
Indeed. It’s become the ONLY word that is taboo, the only thing that can put you in jail or righteously murdered.
Which proves again all they care about it words. Never actions. Libs care much more about some white saying THAT WORD than they care about their criminal record, or that they burned and looted endlessly.
“Spanish or creole word negro or negra”
It’s my theory that it’s an uneducated lazy bastardization of “negro”. Not much more.
Think how many times people (especially from certain regions) say a word but leave something off or let it drift...e.g., Englishmen often lazily turn an ending “a” into “er”. New Englanders unable to say “r” so leave it off, e.g., “cah” or “lawyah”.
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