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George Lopez show uses racial epiphet on air (its ok its agains white people)
self | 10/24/2003 | self

Posted on 10/24/2003 5:12:38 PM PDT by longtermmemmory

Just a quickie observation. ABC's George Lopez show just showed two white guys getting into a fight in a bar. The mother/sister/mother in law (?) actress goes "I wish I had my video camera. I could sell this as 'crakers gone wild'."

I have alway been under the impression that the phrase "craker" was the same as the word "niger" (education use here).

I will never know since I was just passing through as I was putting a DVD on.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: black; craker; hate; hispanic; latino; nig; slur; speech; thoughtcrime; turass; tv; white; word
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Just giving a heads up. I wanted to log it in a thread incase the issue ever comes up again.
1 posted on 10/24/2003 5:12:39 PM PDT by longtermmemmory
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To: longtermmemmory
You must have missed the Emmys...he was much worse, and in additon, not very funny.
2 posted on 10/24/2003 5:15:58 PM PDT by LWalk18
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To: LWalk18
correct. I am among those which the networks are wondering where I went. Obviously ABCCBSNBC have yet to find FR.
3 posted on 10/24/2003 5:17:56 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: longtermmemmory
I have alway been under the impression that the phrase "craker" was the same as the word "niger"

Generally, "cracker" is used to describe someone from Georgia. It does not carry as much weight as the other word you listed.

4 posted on 10/24/2003 5:20:28 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help)
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To: LWalk18
nothing much was on tv one night, so i decided to give this show a try. the son joined the boy scouts. the rabid conservative scout leader encouraged them to learn about fire arms from their parents. the son came home and wanted to learn more about guns. Lopez told the kid all about how terrible guns are. this made me want to puke.

just another show on ABC that i cant watch.
5 posted on 10/24/2003 5:27:48 PM PDT by sylar
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Generally, "cracker" is used to describe someone from Georgia. It does not carry as much weight as the other word you listed."

I never heard of the Georgia reference but it's been my experience living in Texas that cracker is the polar opposite of nigger. Of course, I could be wrong.
6 posted on 10/24/2003 5:27:56 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: longtermmemmory
I have alway been under the impression that the phrase "craker" was the same as the word "niger" (education use here).

Well I don't think so. Niger is a country in Africa.

7 posted on 10/24/2003 5:30:49 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (PEACE - Through Superior Firepower)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Main Entry: crack·er
Pronunciation: 'kra-k&r
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 chiefly dialect : a bragging liar : BOASTER
2 : something that makes a cracking or snapping noise: as a : FIRECRACKER b : the snapping end of a whiplash : SNAPPER c : a paper holder for a party favor that pops when the ends are pulled sharply
3 plural : NUTCRACKER
4 : a dry thin crispy baked bread product that may be leavened or unleavened
5 a usually disparaging : a poor usually Southern white b capitalized : a native or resident of Florida or Georgia -- used as a nickname
6 : the equipment in which cracking (as of petroleum) is carried out
8 posted on 10/24/2003 5:31:38 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
"Generally, "cracker" is used to describe someone from Georgia. It does not carry as much weight as the other word you listed."

Is it really just Georgia? It is definately a Southern epithet, and having grown up in NYC and never having left the NY metro area, I can guaran-damn-tee that no Hispanic 'round here would EVER use the word "cracker" other than to refer to a snack-food item.

I'm also pretty sure that no black people from around here would use to describe a Yankee white person, but I could be wrong. I'm thinking they'd say "honkey".

Nigger is a pretty bad word, worse than these others, on that point I agree. At least in the modern era. It is like Kike, very derogatory, no humor in it, no bon hommie at all. Except of course when a black person says Nigger, that can be kind of humourous. But nowadays we would spell that Nigga, so maybe it's a different word altogether.

But as for Hispanics, oy vey? Who wrote this script, valley girls and guys no doubt.
9 posted on 10/24/2003 5:31:41 PM PDT by jocon307 (New tagline coming soon......)
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To: longtermmemmory
"correct. I am among those which the networks are wondering where I went."

You and me (we) both, I wish I watched CBS so I could stop watching them, but alas...

10 posted on 10/24/2003 5:34:40 PM PDT by gorush
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To: longtermmemmory
I support free speech, but it has to be a two way street.
11 posted on 10/24/2003 5:35:35 PM PDT by Flyer (You get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
I never heard of the Georgia reference but it's been my experience living in Texas that cracker is the polar opposite of nigger.

Only if you let it bother you.

12 posted on 10/24/2003 5:37:08 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?--Dick Cavett)
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To: jocon307
"nigger" definitely carries more weight now, than slurs against Whites.

The trouble is that it is the exact same thing intellectually and morally. I think that is the point many people are trying to make. In other words it carries more weight because some groups are more equal than others.

13 posted on 10/24/2003 5:38:48 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
It doesn't necessarily bother me but the double standard certainly does.
14 posted on 10/24/2003 5:39:42 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Texas_Jarhead
I agree.
15 posted on 10/24/2003 5:40:48 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?--Dick Cavett)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
With this type of mentality you don't need to be part of a boycott to simply not want any part of shows that are based on hate.
16 posted on 10/24/2003 5:55:18 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
Just like Ghettopoly is the polar opposite of the game Careers!
17 posted on 10/24/2003 5:57:24 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: jocon307
From Random House Webster's Unabridged - see def. 4 & 5
Capitalized is the Georgian usage.

crack·er (krak'ÆÃr), n.
1. a thin, crisp biscuit.
2. a firecracker.
3. Also called crack'er bon'bon. a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends.
4. (cap.) Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. a native or inhabitant of Georgia (used as a nickname).
5. Slang (disparaging and offensive). a poor white person living in some rural parts of the southeastern U.S.
6. snapper (def. 5).
7. braggart; boaster.
8. a person or thing that cracks.
9. a chemical reactor used for cracking. Cf. catalytic cracking, fractionator.
–adj.
10. crackers, Informal. wild; crazy: They went crackers over the new styles.
[1400–50; late ME craker. See CRACK, -ER1; (defs. 4–5) perh. orig. in sense “braggart,” applied to frontiersmen of the southern American colonies in the 1760s, though subsequently given other interpretations (cf. CORN-CRACKER); for crackers crazy, cf. CRACKED, -ERS]
18 posted on 10/24/2003 6:03:12 PM PDT by FormerlyAnotherLurker (to sleep, perchance to dream - Maybe I'll read some Ann Coulter first)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
Your wrong. Georgia crackers have been around for a long time and it's not really a slur.
19 posted on 10/24/2003 6:04:56 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
The Crakers in Niger are deeply saddened.
20 posted on 10/24/2003 6:06:20 PM PDT by humblegunner (Kuala Lumpur!)
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