Posted on 05/13/2008 5:36:19 AM PDT by Nextrush
They called the police for an investigation about racial slurs from 13 year olds? Wow. I guess the parents were too busy? /s
What better way to put the verbal abuser down than by thriving?
That is very sad. I’d never heard of such a thing. Good on you for standing your ground.
As I said in my post there are Many, Many interpretations of the term “Cracker”. Yours about cracking the whip is one of them. I posted another.
As I said in my post there are Many, Many interpretations of the term “Cracker”. Yours about cracking the whip is one of them. I posted another.
Nope. Google it. It came from a term for braggarts in Scotland and Ireland. Also, some say it came from Florida cowboys who herded cattle by whipping them. The crack of the whip sound, the employer of the whip then became a cracker. And others say it came from slave masters who would whip their slaves. Finally, some say it came from the food of colonial poor people, cracked corn.
Mostly I heard it used to describe poor, slovenly white trash. In my state (Alabama) there was a lot of class stratification, and "cracker" was more often a term used by richer, landowner whites to describe poor sharecroppers and hillbillies.
We only have two more weeks and she’s only got to ride the bus three more times. I pick her up at school the majority of the time. What I have noticed is that almost the entire bus system is geared for the black population and the majority of the drivers are white. We (whites) have our taxes subsidize the blacks.
I have no other choice...there are no private schools within 25 miles of my business. Homeschool is not an option as a single professional parent with a business of my own.
By the way...If you could afford full-time babysitting before she entered school,why not now? Also, children who can read are able to educate themselves with not much more than the help parents are already giving supervising homework. Homeschoolers routinely do this.
Please don't reject homeschooling because you are single parent. Many single parents homeschool. Contact your local homeschool organization leaders. They may be able to put you in contact with homeschooling single parents.
With this stuff going on these days, I’ll be teaching my kids to fight as soon as they can walk.
Obviously the police officers in this department have not experienced the pleasure of being a white pedestrian in certain ethnic areas of Detroit; or any other major city for that matter.
You prove out where it comes from and you could have a Ph.D.
The likeliest theory is that it comes from an old word that means "braggart" or "provincial loudmouth." You can see the same root in "wisecracker."
Other theories: poor Whites ate cracked corn; or they cracked pecans for a living; Spaniards called Englishmen "Quáqueros," or Quakers. Some associate the word with the crack of the cattle driver's or slave master's whip, but the word was in usage for a very long time and apparently didn't originate with slaves.
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