[Brookhaven]

"Sir, it refers to WHIP CRACKER as in the Masssa on the Plantation."

That's actually NOT what it refers to.

As someone pointed out earlier, it refers to early coachman in Georgia that drove the team of horses pulling the coach by cracking a whip.

If this had anything to do with slavery, do you think there would have been a negro league baseball team called the Atlanta Crackers?????

[ExSoldier]

I'm just relating what I was told and have confirmed by both the African American kids in the inner city AND their teachers. Which is very interesting because you'd expect them to be experts on their own slice of American history. I'm a Government guy. That, plus economics and psychology. Next year I might pick up something to do with criminal justice and law enforcement if I get to go over to the magnet school that's trying to recruit me.