The term "cracker," came from the state of FL when FL produced the second most cattle in the country. The term is closely associated with "redneck," because the cattlemen cracked their whips to herd the cattle, and had rednecks from staying out in the FL sun.
Almost every black person who is a native Floridian knows what they mean, and that the terms are derogatory.
That dog don't hunt.
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To be honest, I grew up in northern Alabama in the 60s/70s, and never heard the term cracker used. I’m guessing it’s more of a Florida term.
I grew up in Michigan during the 60-70s (and, then, I stopped gropwing up!).
“Crackah” was a purjorative terms used by militant negoroes to insult pasty, white (pink) caucasians regardless of their understabnding of racism.
IOW, crackahs are rayciss from the day they was born and will never “progress” to an appropriate understand of the relationship between blacks and whites in the USA.
Short summary: It is a law of natural physics that negroes cannot be racist.
Yep.
The people here who don’t know what they are talking about, and seem to think it refers to slaves and slave owners, should read a bit.
Perhaps they could try:
“Cracker. The Cracker Culture in Florida History”, Dana Ste. Claire, University Press of Florida, printed 2006, 255 pp,
One sentence: “ ‘Cracker’ has long been a racial slur used by African Americans as a contemptuous term for the Souther white.”
(p 35)