I know it's definately not on the same level as the "n" word, but I'm still a little offended by it.
2006-09-01 15:14:58 · 31 answers · asked by posture 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No, I'm black.
2006-09-02 11:08:44 · answer #1 · answered by glow 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not at all, I'm not a cracker. In the first place only about 1 in 500,000 people who use the term cracker even know where it came from. I'm quite confident that YOU don't know where that term originated. It has NOTHING to do with the color of a cracker and the color of a white person's skin even though most poorly-read people think that is the meaning. It actually originated in the backwoods of Appalachia in the 1700s and 1800s when poor whites could not afford yeast to add to their bread. The resulting food was a flat bread that would not rise since there was no leavening agent in the dough--hence they ate crackers. So the insult is an economic one--not a racial one. Most blacks who use this term are too illiterate to even know what they are saying--they just repeat it because they heard someone else use it. The only people this would offend are people (of any race) who are too poor to buy yeast. And since that is certainly not me, I'm not offended by it any more than I would be if someone called me a n i g g e r, s p i c, w o p, k i k e, or another ridiculous racial epithet .
None of those terms would apply to me.
2006-09-01 18:28:09 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Curious 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think cracker is on the same level as pourch Monkey, stupid lil words that have some hurt behind it.
But if I was called cracker I would laugh more then be hurt.
Yes I am a redneck but I don't judge folks on the color of the skin, but by thier minds.
2006-09-01 15:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Eastern U.S., it is not silent. In the Southwest, it is sometimes (incorrectly) silent. In Georgia, people don't use "vulnerable" because they don't understand what the word means, and so it is hard to say if the "L" would be pronounced or not. (Sorry, I'm all disillusioned about the pathetic state of public education in Georgia, today.)
2016-03-27 03:52:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blacks use the word "cracker" to associate all whites with slave owners who had used whips as a form of control.
Such words as cracker, retard, redneck, dyke, queer, kike, kraut, spik, etc, are all pejorative when used in reference to group of people by a non-member of a that group.
I find the word "cracker" equally offensive as the "n" word because they both perpetuate the racism and hatred which is destructive to unity of America.
Because these words are insulting, seldom do you hear a group, other than blacks, use them to describe thier own people. If blacks find the word ni*ger so offensive, they should not condone its use by other blacks.
Condemning one groups use of a word and not the others is also a threat to our freedom of speech.
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2006-09-02 08:21:07 · answer #5 · answered by rikenelson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 50's there was a minor league baseball team in Atlanta called the crackers.But to the question at hand the answer is Yes!It is in the same vain as the "n" word.
2006-09-01 16:50:23 · answer #6 · answered by blakree 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My ancestors were 'crackers' from Georgia and Florida but it offends me that no one knows what a 'cracker' really is. They think it is some big insult. 'Crackers' were farmers who owned mules who required quite a bit of whip 'cracking' to get them to listen. What's wrong with that?
2006-09-01 15:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the posited origins have any application to me. I feel there is also an implication of low education and/or socio-economic status, neither of which are anything that I relate to, so it really and honestly does nothing to me.
I wonder if part of that is related to my being a member of the majority and thus having no societal stereotype that teaches me I'm inferior.
2006-09-01 15:34:13 · answer #8 · answered by Huerter0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here I thought a cracker was something I broke up and put in my soup. learn something new everyday. It not what you say, but how you say it and yes it would offend me. If you were my child I would wash your mouth out with soap for saying it.
2006-09-01 15:25:17 · answer #9 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why should it offend me I luv crackers ritz are my favorite with some cheese yummy as for the n word I also love nachos especially with jalepenos mmm mmm good
2006-09-01 15:21:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah...i think its funny that there is a 'cracker' barrel...i wander if blacks get a laugh out of that esp since it is full of whites! Cracker doesjn't offend me...it makes me laugh
2006-09-01 15:21:02 · answer #11 · answered by darkmatter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋