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Posted: Tuesday July 11th, 2006 17:51 |
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I watched Out of Sight starring George Clooney and Don Cheadle recently, and I remember one scene where Don tells a thug to "kick this cracker's ass".
Now why did he say that? I thought a cracker was something you ate! When compared to the numerous terms and words we've endured, is 'cracker' ok?
Have you heard the word used like this before?
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Posted: Tuesday July 11th, 2006 17:55 |
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Because of the "crack" of the whip, my brotha.
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Posted: Wednesday July 12th, 2006 22:34 |
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term for poor white.....
majority of white men in colonial countries were poor....didn't own property ....etc..
planation owners looked at them as they were little better than the ensalved Africans.....
they hated their position in life and took it out on the only people who were below them on the totem pole.....the Africans....
they were the overseers on the plantation....and the ones who had daily contact with the africans....beating, whipping, etc our people
Thee is similiar term for them in every former slave colony....thiose who really know about history of slavwery are aware of what these terms were in country they are from..
in Haiti they were petit blanc..or ti blan..little white people.....
the rich whites were called grande blanc....big whites....
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and 2deal2....if you are offended by derisive term that Blacks use for whites...hope you get over it...and get real.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 00:57 |
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I hope your asking out of curiosity because it seemed by the way you was asking that you were offended or indeed disgusted by the term cracka. if you look at the long list of named we get abused with and look at how we are treated and the unhuman way our ancestors were treated then i'm sure you will see that any name we come up with for "them" doesn't even come close to even being offensive in comparison.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 12:43 |
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I am asking out of curiosity! I've never heard any Black people in the UK call a white person 'cracker' and don't even think white people here would 'get it'. I hear in US Black music and movies so I just wanted to know. I'm not white and it doesn't worry me at all.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 14:08 |
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The term cracker has its origins in Florida where early Floridian cattle ranchers/slave owners used to crack whips to herd their animals.
I can tell you that 95% of Blacks use the term with no clue as to its origin, just as they mindlessly call eachother n*ggers in public places, on TV and Radio.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 14:50 |
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Bacoo wrote: The term cracker has its origins in Florida where early Floridian cattle ranchers/slave owners used to crack whips to herd their animals.
I can tell you that 95% of Blacks use the term with no clue as to its origin, just as they mindlessly call eachother n*ggers in public places, on TV and Radio.
Making an assumption I see.
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 20:08 |
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Bacoo wrote: The term cracker has its origins in Florida where early Floridian cattle ranchers/slave owners used to crack whips to herd their animals.
I can tell you that 95% of Blacks use the term with no clue as to its origin, just as they mindlessly call eachother n*ggers in public places, on TV and Radio.
What is the source for the first part of what you wrote...?
Florida doesn't seem like it would be the origins of the term..for obvious reasons...
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Posted: Thursday July 13th, 2006 20:22 |
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2deal2 wrote: I am asking out of curiosity! I've never heard any Black people in the UK call a white person 'cracker' and don't even think white people here would 'get it'. I hear in US Black music and movies so I just wanted to know. I'm not white and it doesn't worry me at all.
yo..man stick to your guns.....your first post was pretty clear...."is it ok for us to use the term?"
don't act like you didn't write that...
there is a term used in uk..that I just read about a few weeks ago here...person used it when talking about how poor whites were wearing the burberry pattern and upsetting the elitist snobs who owned the company....they said the term was roughly synonymous with "redneck".in america....so there you have it...cracker, redneck about the same term....asthe british term .
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Posted: Friday July 14th, 2006 01:43 |
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there is a term used in uk..that I just read about a few weeks ago here...person used it when talking about how poor whites were wearing the burberry pattern and upsetting the elitist snobs who owned the company....they said the term was roughly synonymous with "redneck".in america....so there you have it...cracker, redneck about the same term....as the british term .
it's CHAVS....
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Posted: Friday July 14th, 2006 13:01 |
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| Cracker is nothing in comparison to all the vile words whites have used against us, but I still think we should not use the word cracker as we would just be on their level, which is the lowest form of mankind.
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Posted: Friday July 14th, 2006 13:02 |
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Bacoo wrote: The term cracker has its origins in Florida where early Floridian cattle ranchers/slave owners used to crack whips to herd their animals.
I can tell you that 95% of Blacks use the term with no clue as to its origin, just as they mindlessly call eachother n*ggers in public places, on TV and Radio.
I love your little video thing with the robots LOL !
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Posted: Monday July 17th, 2006 01:06 |
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DtotheJ wrote: Bacoo wrote: The term cracker has its origins in Florida where early Floridian cattle ranchers/slave owners used to crack whips to herd their animals.
I can tell you that 95% of Blacks use the term with no clue as to its origin, just as they mindlessly call eachother n*ggers in public places, on TV and Radio.
What is the source for the first part of what you wrote...?
Florida doesn't seem like it would be the origins of the term..for obvious reasons...2X
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Posted: Monday July 17th, 2006 22:53 |
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| Calling a white person cracker is really nice compared to the words that we have attached to our race.
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Posted: Tuesday July 18th, 2006 00:32 |
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| I don't recall for sure, but if I think how my ancestors thought when they came up with the usage of term, it is because some may appear to be "white, salty and one dimensional squares", they also like to sandwich such delights as cheese, peanut butter or various delectable (not to me) meats by Oscar Mayer.....sike,no. I have a more practical and universal term that I rarely use, of course many people can and act like a person with this mindset. Everybody knows it, all you have to do is remove two letters and add the very first one.
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Posted: Tuesday July 18th, 2006 00:50 |
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2deal2 wrote: I watched Out of Sight starring George Clooney and Don Cheadle recently, and I remember one scene where Don tells a thug to "kick this cracker's ass".
Now why did he say that? I thought a cracker was something you ate! When compared to the numerous terms and words we've endured, is 'cracker' ok?
Have you heard the word used like this before?
It has evolved into a degrogatory slur for whites. It is ugly … and we shouldn’t use it. But I might point out that for a race to maintain its self respect under such difficult conditions almost requires a little bit of revenge and malice. Knowing how to repay the enemy in kind is almost a presupposition of self respect and self preservation.
I genuinely believe that by the 21st century the “race problem� will be solved … don’t take it too personally if you are a white who has “good intentions� toward blacks. With mutual respect we can get along. But we have a ways to go…
Just as the conflicts of preceeding centuries are out of our minds and old enemies are now friends ...the same thing will happen in the coming years. It has got to be based on mutual respect though.
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 02:49 |
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I get angry at white people all the time, and I call them derrogatory racist names. I'm pretty sure they do it to us, but that doesn't make it right
Common names are:
Cracker
White Trash, Trailer Trash
Honky
Pig
Powdered bytches
etc.... Do Africans in the UK have names they use to insult their whites? I just want to know out of curiosity.
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 03:47 |
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DallazMami wrote: I get angry at white people all the time, and I call them derrogatory racist names. I'm pretty sure they do it to us, but that doesn't make it right
Common names are:
Cracker
White Trash, Trailer Trash
Honky
Pig
Powdered bytches
etc.... Do Africans in the UK have names they use to insult their whites? I just want to know out of curiosity.
I think they call them "Bluefoots", which I never heard of the term until I came on this site, but I can see why they are call bluefoot.
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 04:16 |
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| lol, okay. What does blue foot mean?
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 04:20 |
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DallazMami wrote: lol, okay. What does blue foot mean?
LOL, I guess it's just referring to their veins that you can see in their pale a$$ feet.
My dad also told me while he was in the Vietnam that white boys were called rabbits because many white people got buck teeth.
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 04:20 |
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DallazMami wrote: lol, okay. What does blue foot mean?
LOL, I guess it's just referring to their veins that you can see in their pale a$$ feet.
My dad also told me while he was in the Vietnam that white boys were called rabbits because many white people got buck teeth and big dumbo ears.
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Posted: Saturday July 22nd, 2006 04:21 |
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| lol! That's funny, I get it now.
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Posted: Sunday July 23rd, 2006 17:06 |
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| Yes I've heard the term cracker used many times in life and it always sounded stupid to me and I never used it because its not mean enough compared to all the terrible racist names they have for blacks. Cracker was generally for all white people, white trash was for the poor whites. Alot of whites I seen don't even get mad when they hear it because cracker is so stupid it doesn't sound like an insult, now if you call them a white devil or something then they would be mad.
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Posted: Monday July 24th, 2006 21:03 |
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I hope your asking out of curiosity because it seemed by the way you was asking that you were offended or indeed disgusted by the term cracka. if you look at the long list of named we get abused with and look at how we are treated and the unhuman way our ancestors were treated then i'm sure you will see that any name we come up with for "them" doesn't even come close to even being offensive in comparison. I feel you on this comment about all the things Blacks are called and how Blacks are treated... being called a "Cracka", isn't half bad... Although I must admit I didn't know how the term "Cracka" came about... I thought it was due to the pale complexion of Whites, but now I know.
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Posted: Monday July 24th, 2006 21:07 |
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I guess it's just referring to their veins that you can see in their pale a$$ feet.
My dad also told me while he was in the Vietnam that white boys were called rabbits because many white people got buck teeth. LMAO at the above comment... I didn't know what Bluefoot meant neither, until you explained it.
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