The "C-Word" Is Just As Offensive As The "N-Word"

Even in our supposedly enlightened era, bigots and racists think it's acceptable to use the word "cracker" to describe so-called "white" people or to use the word "nigger" to describe so-called "black" people.

Truly, the use of either word is equally unacceptable. If you find yourself among people who are using either term, you should probably distance yourself from them as quickly as possible.

Racism and bigotry have no place in society but, unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of people who insist on using derogatory terms to describe the color of a person's skin.

Even the use of such terms as "white" or "black" are increasingly being seen as derogatory as more and more people come to realize that those terms hold a connotation of racism and discrimination based simply on a person's skin color.

Perhaps one day, we will enter a more tolerable era when the use of such terms is considered an indicator of a lack of intelligence and a sign of ignorance. But, with the current crop of race-baiters in our country (and around the world), I don't see an end to racism and bigotry any time soon.

 

You're so naive that it is down right cute sometimes!

There are multiple explanations of the etymology of "cracker", most dating its origin to the 18th century or earlier.
One theory holds that the term derives from the "cracking" of whips, either by slave foremen in the antebellum South against African slaves, or by rustics to guide their cattle. Those white foremen or rural poor who cracked their whips theoretically became known as "crackers."

Another whip-derived theory is based on Florida's "cracker cowboys" of the 19th and early 20th centuries; distinct from the Spanish vaquero and the Western cowboy. Cracker cowboys did not use lassos to herd or capture cattle. Their primary tools were cow whips and dogs.

The term "cracker" was in use during Elizabethan times to describe braggarts. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning "entertaining conversation" (One may be said to "crack" a joke; a witty remark is a "wisecrack"). This term and the Gaelic spelling "craic" are still in use in Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this... that deafes our eares / With this abundance of superfluous breath?"

An alternative theory holds that the term comes from the common diet of poor whites. The 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica supposes that the term derives from the cracked (kernels of) corn which formed the staple food of this class of people.

Another possible origin for the word cracker, especially referring to whites in Florida in Georgia, is the presence of cracks in the skin around the eyes from squinting in the bright sun in the days before sunglasses.

Your assumptions seem to be pulled out of your ass again.

 

Here is something that you probably will find racist but is absolutely provable. Whites are better than other darker skinned people at one very specific thing. Killing. They are the undisputed champions of mass murder whether it be the Crusades, slavery, WWI and WWII, Genocide of Native Americans, I mean the list is unending. We be the champs. Yaaaaa us! We're 1.

 

So, you've given us the possible origins of the term. So what? There are origin stories for every derogatory term. What does that prove? Are you saying that calling someone a "cracker" is NOT derogatory?

 

Define "whites".

Wars are seldom fought because of racial conflicts. Most wars are fought for political or economic reasons, not racial reasons.

Let's look at our country's wars since its founding:

REVOLUTIONARY WAR - Political (dissolution from Great Britain)
WAR OF 1812 - Political/economic (territorial expansion)
MEXICAN WAR - Political (territorial expansion)
CIVIL WAR - Political (states' rights)
SPANISH/AMERICAN WAR - Political (political independence)
WWI - Political (political alliances)
WWII - Political (political alliances and the direct attack by a foreign nation)
KOREAN WAR - Geopolitical (democracy vs. communism)
VIETNAM WAR - Geopolitical (democracy vs. communism)
PERSIAN GULF WAR - Political and humanitarian (protection)
AFGHANISTAN WAR - Non-political nor economic (direct attack by elements within the nation)
iRAQ WAR - Defense (reported harboring of WMDs).

Your argument concerning the Crusades falls flat since it was a religious campaign, not a racial one. Also, you would have to agree that slavery wasn't necessarily a racial issue since it wouldn't have mattered to the slaveowners what color of skin the slave had. In fact, it didn't. Slavers came in all shades of skin color as did slaves. The Native Americans would have been killed regardless of skin color since they were simply in the way of settlers. Andrew Jackson would have seen to that.

 

Racism and bigotry have no place in society but, unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of people who insist on using derogatory terms to describe the color of a person's skin.

 

Your point is.....?

 

Derogatory terms don't really bother me, after all, didn't the person using the terms just raise their hands in public and admit to being ignorant, stupid, and frothing at the mouth from the ill affects of a really nasty mind virus. I see it as more self degrading, than insulting. What really bothers me are people, sorry, I'm being way too forgiving, er, a**holes who talk the PC talk but block the doors and pigeon hole good honest decent people every chance they get.

 

Shut up Cracker!

 

Racist.

 

Wrong "c-word".

As for "cracker", I've been calling white people that since All in the Family was on the air, and it's spelled "cracka", btw.

Cracka.

 

No, not according to the etymology of the word. All you have to be is a southern slave master, which I'm sure you are in your heart, so I think you are pretty much a cracker.

At no point is the term cracker ever defined as having anything to do with skin color. That was your silly assumption which I already pointed out was pure foolishness by yet another southern cracker. So shut up cracker.

 

Shut up, racist.

 

See #3:

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Then just what is this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)

 

Little Joe and his puppet obviously see nothing wrong with using derogatory terms to describe a person's skin color. That fact alone proves they are racist.

 

Skin color? Silly parrot! Can only regurgitate what he's heard. Rahhh! That's why you're a rightie, you can't learn even when the information is right in front of you. Dumb cracker!

Wait a minute! Crackers, parrots, I get it now. Polly want a cracker?

 

Thank you but I already posted that. Where does it ever say skin color had anything to do with the term cracker? White people were the slave owners that is why the term was used for them not as you crackers assumed because crackers a re white. Dumb crackers.

BTW Southerners are to closest thing to crackers we still have today.

 

You're just digging yourself deeper, Little Joe. I always knew you were a racist from previous comments you've made, but now you've removed any doubt. It's good to not be you.

 

Listen here you cracker, ignoring the fact that you thought that the term had something to do with skin color doesn't make it any less true just because you are ignoring it. We can all read your OP. Denial isn't going to help at this point. Dumb cracker!

But I'm digging? Too funny! Keep ignoring your own OP. That'll work for ya especially when you have the other crackers in on the denial.

One more time from your OP:

Racism and bigotry have no place in society but, unfortunately, there seems to be a never-ending supply of people who insist on using derogatory terms to describe the color of a person's skin.