‘Cracker’ Means Something Entirely Different In Florida: A Source Of ‘Pride’

mediaite ^ | 6/27 | tommy christopher

[hummingbird]

"He’s a crackah beaner!!"

HA!

"Zimmerman" sounds Jewish. So, he's what: "crackah, beaner, (what?)"?

*snicker*

[Humbug]

This article perfectly illustrates the complete lack of intellectual integrity that is unfortunately shared by many on the left and as such is doing much harm to the country. But at least it is getting the ridicule it richly deserves over at the site where it was published.

Here's my favorite (by GlenWishard)...

I can imagine the exchange:

MARTIN: I think I see a cracker.

RACHEL: A cracker? Are you sure the gentleman is not a vaquero?

MARTIN: No, he does not wear a sombrero, nor does he carry a lasso. Therefore I believe him to be a cracker, quod erat demonstratum.

RACHEL: Oh, how wonderful. A living symbol of the rich cultural heritage of Florida.

[hummingbird]

"This is going to be one sick trial."

Yes, yes, yes.....

[mc5cents]

Miami is considered South NYC..............

or North Havana...

[moovova]

I’m feeling a new custom t-shirt order coming on...

I wonder if I can order it and get it in time for the extended family picnic in July. I love lighting up the liberal side of the family.

[OESY]

In reference to a native of Florida or Georgia, however, it [cracker] is sometimes used in a neutral or positive context

However, here there is no "neutral or positive context". So, why would the reporter tommy christopher write "It’s possible he [defense attorney Don West] just assumed the derogatory meaning, but you’d have to ask him why he would do that, why he would assume that two Florida residents could not have been using a Florida-specific colloquialism.

Well, maybe it's because the modifier "creepy-ass" created a negative context, or maybe the reporter just assumed that being a dumb-ass reporter is a source of pride in his profession.

[hummingbird]

"at your next family gathering you can call your family creepy ass crackers and feel a source of Pride"

Our family is family-proud so you can call us "creepy ass cracker hillbillies".

We get such warm feelings from that!

*snicker*

[Ghost of SVR4]

[dfwgator]

Cracka, please.

[hummingbird]

"Hi. The term "cracker," came from the state of FL when FL produced the second most cattle in the country. The term is closely associated with "redneck," because the cattlemen cracked their whips to herd the cattle, and had rednecks from staying out in the FL sun."

OMG, I forgot about "rednecks"!

As a cracker hillbilly who has lived in New Orleans and oil-rich Texas. what does that make me now?

I have to get all of this straight.

Will Ancestry.com list any rednecks or cajuns in my family? Or, just the cracker, hillbilly parts?

*snicker*

[BitWielder1]

So if I call someone a [N-word], I can claim I'm merely complementing him on his lovely tan?
Lead balloon right there.

[PapaBear3625]

Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a sometimes pejorative expression for white people, especially poor rural whites in the Southern United States. In reference to a native of Florida or Georgia, however, it is sometimes used in a neutral or positive context and is sometimes used self-descriptively with pride.

The key word is "SELF-descriptively". A white person can call a fellow white a "cracka". A black person calling a white person a cracka is equivalent to a white person calling a black person a "n-word".

[hummingbird]

Your post - funny!

BWAWAWAWAWAWA......

<8^}

[RobertClark]

He explained that Florida cowboys used whips to herd cattle, and to scare away gators, and were called “crackers” because of the sound of their incessant whip-cracking.

This ignorant, lying woman can neither utilize conversational English nor read. Yet, we are expected to believe that she is well studied in Florida history and understands the intent of a name utilized for Appalachian cowboys? I've heard everything now. This is what disingenuous white liberals like to do - make excuses!

[hummingbird]

Is that the Chappelle sketch about the blind man who didn’t know he was black and thought he was a white person? He was a racist KKK member?

[hummingbird]

"Cracka, please."

"Cracka Power"!

I need a t-shirt or baseball cap with that on it. But, I won't wear it if I go to Florida to see Disneyworld. *snicker*

[BykrBayb]

A Florida cracker and a creepy ass cracker are two different things.

[hummingbird]

" Could it be that in TM's thug mind, any cracka that would be following him would have to be crazy? That's the way I take it."

It is possible that young, St. Trayvon meant this. We will have to take the scholarly, young miss' word for it.

Go to Florida, maybe a Mall and yell "cracker". Just for fun to see the response..."I don't think so"...who knows what response you would get.

P> Probably not so good.

[hummingbird]

"Dick Gregory, a black comedian and one-time Presidential candidate, once said, “The word nigger means shiftless and lazy. So there are black niggers and white niggers.”

The late Senator "KKK Grand Kleagle" Byrd caught all kinds of grief for explaining "black niggers" and "white niggers". Maybe he used "nigras" instead of "niggers" but he did make a distinction between white ones and black ones.

You know Byrd...the "conscience" of the senate...something like that.

A Kennedy-like fellow for the South.

[KeyLargo]

Crime
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