[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm waitin' for the heckler's appology for using the "C" word.

I never understood why black folks user the word "Cracker" to denigrate any white person.

Isn't the origin of the word a reference to people from Georgia?

Call me a cracker all you want. I ain't from Georgia. Means nothing to me.

[bannie]

I never understood it, either. However, I don't have a chip on my shoulder, so you can call me anything you want.

Calling me something doesn't turn me into that thing.

[WireAndWood]

"I never understood why black folks user the word "Cracker" to denigrate any white person. Isn't the origin of the word a reference to people from Georgia?"

I believe it originated as an anti-semetic slur, a reference to matzoh crackers. Thus, in addition to the anti-semetic racial hatred involved it bears the moral equivalence of referring to blacks through use of a comment about fried chicken or watermelon.

I also heard Richards' apology, and from the pauses in his speach I got the impression that he was simply choosing his words with extreme caution. He intended that the sincerity of his apology would be unquesitonable. He was tyring to make it perfectly clear that it was NOT supposed to be comedy. Hollywood audiences are so tasteless, though, that they laughed anyway.

I would have LOVED to see Richards apologize by reading word-for-word one of Jon Carry's wussy-snobby non-apologies after the 'US servicemen are stupid' comment - preferrably the very first one.