I'm white, but I've never figured that out.... I know it's a rude, derogatory racist reference, but where does it come from?
2007-02-10 06:19:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because during slavery African American slaves would call the White man with the whip the "cracker" because the whip cracks, he's cracking the whip. So as people still say the n word which was brought up by the slave owners and all, cracker is used as well.
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2007-02-10 06:22:28 · answer #1 · answered by Natalie 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I thought they called them crackers because of their white trash ways...
2007-02-10 14:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ummm....crackers are white (except for ritz and a few others that were not out back then when the expression began to get used). i don't know...just threw something out there
2007-02-10 14:22:10 · answer #3 · answered by angie20k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crackers refers to slave owners (they "cracked" their whips). The "n" word refers to people from the country Niger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger
2007-02-10 14:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by Ashley P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had never heard of that one before.
2007-02-10 18:22:05 · answer #5 · answered by Lonely Bàstard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should go to the Society &Culture section.I really don't know.
2007-02-10 14:26:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer honkey myself...it's just such a funny word!
2007-02-10 14:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by stacia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they crack under pressure
2007-02-10 14:33:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋