we all just don't call each other names?

Won't be accepted well here.

Better band too although Cracker is quite good.

I can say I've never heard a white person or black person IRL use that word. Only on DU do I see it often.

My son's uncles have taught him not to use the n word (even with other blacks), or cracker, or redneck, or any word that is offensive to a group of people. We should all be like that.

Called cracker by a black person and I suggested the name calling not get started. It may not offend me, I am what I am but the derogatory names are not nice.

if they choose to fight that particular battle.

Where do you expect such behavior to lead?

Maybe that will get their attention.

No idea.

and NO, I'm not offended by it.

I am offended by OUTRAGE BY PROXY trolls who want to be offended FOR me.

Uh, no. Just go away. I'll fight my own battles, thanks.

All you ever wanted to know about Crackers but were too intimidated to ask: http://www.florida-backroads-travel.com/florida-cracker.html

Just don't call me a Republican. That's the real mortal insult.

Call me cracker, call me slut ------ just don't call me republican.

They were just goading him into using the N word. Everyone hated him and hoped he would blow up soon and he did. Security escorted him out. But for a year after that they kept calling me Honkie and everyone laughed.

they have a right to complain, and a right to be offended.
I am not offended by that term, but I rarely get offended by names---they're just names.
But other folks certainly have the right to be offended by terms such as "cracker".

Discuss.

since he's a male.

Discuss why your answer has been "yes".

Forced to get ID they cant afford to get so they can vote?

...in most cases, that I've heard it, it's a lot like saying "You Bastard!" Depends on how you say it.

You bastard...you stole $2,300.00 from me! Consider our friendship over.
You bastard..you actually got a date from that beautiful, intelligent woman? You lucky dog!

Again, the word doesn't bother me. NOT the same as the N word or a lot of other derogatory words.

...said Cracker was at Publix asking where the Ritz crackers are...

With a song about Florida Crackers. Since there were few competent performers in the area, someone had the songs prerecorded and played them back while local "performers moved around on the stage. The guy playing the Cracker cowboy thought he was good with a bullwhip and insisted on popping it - but he never managed to do it at the right point in the music. So we'd hear the prerecorded whip crack and the live whip crack.

That was when I first heard about Florida Cracker cowboys.

One of the things we found in my parents' house was a tape of the songs. I should transfer them to digital - but I wonder if anyone has pictures or film of the performances that could be put with the music.

which, while having a similar pronunciation, is very different from the actual "C-word".

I think that is the difference.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This is subtle underhanded way of using a racial epithet under the guise of asking about its use. If a white person were to have a thread "Do black folks who object to the term...." Hate speech is hate speech and needs to be uniformly treated. DU community standards need to be upheld here.

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Proud to be Juror #6 here.

Between "I like cjeek dgg" and "CreekDog is female", I think it is unfair that CreekDog gets to be part of no less than TWO DU memes.

I'm boiling in jealousy.

They may be delicious but I put my foot down on eating them.

Screeming Meemie beat me to the obvious single entrendre.

But he doesn't like wet willies. Nibbling good - wet willies bad.

I hate wet willies too. Grody.

Things you can only imagine.

Or is that supposition itself (at best) stereotyping? As I understand it, it originally referred to the dialect common in north Florida and south Georgia; in any case, since it applies only to white people from that area, it implies something about skin color. Thus: "by it's a term used to describe someone who is racist" are you not expressing prejudice based on skin color?

On both.

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and I'm one hell of an old cracker at that

But then I was offended when someone early on called me homey, I'd never heard that word used before either. Not even sure how to react with either to be honest with you all but for some reason homey set me off

Its hell living under a rock for years like I must have

If I remember correctly, the word was almost exclusively used for poor white farmers from Georgia, although I am unsure why that was.

In more recent decades, the word has taken on a more pejorative meaning: racist, ignorant, etc.

Interestingly enough, young people I encounter often aren't even familiar with the word, having never heard it in this sense. Is it a word that will disappear with changing demographics--disappearance of rural farmers, or will it stick with us in the popular lexicon with its current negative connotation?

I have never heard anyone else be called a cracker, either.

If I envision someone calling me a cracker, my reaction is a smile, light laugh.

I think calling someone a racist, would have more impact on them, than calling them a cracker. Just my honest opinion.

Was named Georgia Crackers.

Not sure whether that was clueless or playfulness.

I always thought it was pretty damn funny.

Have never felt any threat at all by being called a cracker/cracka.

Dead Honky

I have met several "native" Floridians who have referred to themselves as "Crackers". Ok, whatever.

The word cracker being used by anybody in person. I've only heard it being used in old sitcoms like Sanford and Son. :p

Either way i agree with the first poster that we shouldn't call each other names.

When I talk about eating crackers at lunch time, I don't want anyone getting pervy ideas.

but I look more like a biscuit.

They called themselves "transplanted crackers" but were really Georgia Peaches. My mom, the oldest of 10 kids, was born in Georgia as were 2 of her siblings then my grandparents moved to Miami where the rest of my aunts and uncles were born.

I, personally, have never been offended by being called a cracker, even if it came from an African American... which it had many times. Miami was a melting pot from the late 60's until... well... now. I grew up with a diversity of friends who were white, black, cuban, mexican, greek and italian. I never thought of them as anything more than other people and my friends. I never thought about race, nationality or anything else. We just played together, hung out together, eventually got high together and always had each others backs. Hell, I had 2 italian friends who lived on the same street as I did, and they nick-named themselves "Dag" and "Dago". Dago was full italian & Dag was half. They would ignore you if you called them by their real first names!

Peace,

Ghost

In America racial slurs about whites have no effect since minorities aren't running most companies.