Do you know where the word "Cracker" came from?

Question

cracker was a term made and used by white people to describe themselves. they even had a baseball team called the Georgia Crackers(look it up). Southern Racist called themselves Southern Crackers. When a black person uses the word "cracker" they are referring to a racist white person. we did not make this word up. A Cracker in the South was a Slave master who’s only responsibility was to oversee the overseers while the overseers would oversee the slaves. A Southern Cracker was said to sit on his porch wearing an all white suite and a white hat rocking in his rocking chair and drinking lemonade. He was so rich that he even had slaves just to wipe his sweat. They called themselves cracker and they called us the "N" word.

What do you say???

Answer 1

I say then whites can call themselves crackers, but blacks can't. Blacks can call themselves n***** but whites can't. Then nobody would be racist, or we all would be. Just realize a word does not have power over you and then the word will disappear. The only race is the human race and I am so disappointed in some people. Does that make me a racist then?

Answer 2

Wrong. Crackers is an old southern term. But, slaves did start it. When the slave owners decided that a slave did something wrong, what happened to the slave?? They got whipped with a leather whip. If you haven't ever heard something get whipped with a leather whip, when it hits it makes a sharp cracking noise. So, the slaves started referring to the slave owners as crackers. The people who cracked the whip. I saw this on the history channel.

Answer 3

Cracker....In the old days when slavery was okey...usually the owners themselves use to place punishement on the slaves by wiping them with the nasty 7 tails wip...So the owner that caried the wip and walked around with the wip....the slaves use to warn each other that the cracker was around....Was called Cracker...because as the wip was unfolding to hit the target was doing the Cracking noise.

Answer 4

I'm a Florida Cracker. It goes back to the 1800's when the they had to crack whips to get cattle though the woods, here in Florida the woods are full of brush and hard to get through. That's where it came from. I'm proud to be a cracker, born and raised here.
As far as the white version goes, probably because we are white like Saltines I guess, I'm proud to be that kind of cracker too. Cracker isn't that insulting, if your insulted by a word, you need to get over it.

Answer 5

I was told that it was about slavery. That the white slave owners cracking their whips.therefore white people are called crackers. Honkey came from after slavery when white people would terrorize the blacks by driving by and honking their horns (along with stoning their houses and burning a cross on their lawns) the word honkeys came along.

Answer 6

OH, its not an insult...thats why its so useless against them. I have never made a white person cry saying cracker though they've made me cry saying the N word.

Answer 7

Well cousin, we are all shades of the same color. Artists call this color "burnt siena". We are all one big unhappy family. Too bad, considering we all come from the same place!

Answer 8

You make a valid point. White people are known to assign words of degradation to other racial groups.

Answer 9

I say that if someone called me a "Cracker", I would literally crack up laughing. Thanks for the history lesson.

Answer 10

i like crackers, they go great with tomato soup and grilled cheese.