[torchthemummy]

I'm a slow typer. The accompanying story does a general breakdown. What isn't noted is it is a black guy that is rightfully upset but then cedes the moral high ground by calling Richards a "cracker" and "whgite boy." Ironically this was one of the few instances where I would agree in a black guy calling a white guy a cracker. Obviously the n-word is worse in a historical context while "cracker" is indeed a racist word (and I hate both) but in this exchange I see the "cracker" label being justifiably used to counter. Wow. And what a bummer.

[higgmeister]

Richards is not, nor ever will be a Cracker.

Cracker is a term that identifies a region of the South, along the coast, from the Carolinas through Georgia to Florida.

When I grew up, being a Georgia Cracker was a good thing.

The term comes from the fact that all we had to live on was hardtack bread, otherwise known as a cracker.

In recent times Yankees have tried to turn the term into a negative racial stereotype.

[arthurus]

I am a southern citizen and the only people I have ever known to take offense at "cracker" are blueblood women who turn up their noses, not at the word but at the person using the word because of his obvious lack of breeding.

[stainlessbanner]

Cracker refers to rural Southerners in FLA/GA, and the interesting character called the FLA cowmen. Most folks in the South laugh it off or accept it as a friendly description. Part of the Southern culture is humor and colorful tales - folks not from the South do not understand the use of Cracker.

[Osage Orange]

Cracker is racist??

Man...where have I been.