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To: ConservativeStatement

If somebody calls me a “cracker”, it is the same as if they called a black person a “n-——”.

Do I care?

No.


20 posted on 01/05/2012 8:33:38 AM PST by Haiku Guy (We don't need to Occupy Wall Street... We need to Occupy K Street!)
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To: Haiku Guy
It's only the same thing if they don't know anything about the Triple A Atlanta Crackers and Negro League Atlanta Black Crackers baseball teams named as such for the whip cracking muleskinners who loaded and offloaded trains in Terminus/Marthisville/Atlanta at the siuthern end of the Appalachians. Not to mention the Scots crackers who were called such from their expression “Let's have a wee crac” Meaning a bull session with jokes cracked. And fittingly for this story, there is a hardy breed of small horses called Florida Crackers. Call me a cracker anytime, I grew up watching the Crackers play in Ponce de Leon Park in Atlanta.
27 posted on 01/05/2012 8:49:04 AM PST by dblshot (Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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