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

mediaite ^ | 6/27 | tommy christopher

[HereInTheHeartland]

Costco has a very good whole grain variety of cracker that I like.
Combined with their spinach artichoke dip and a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale; I'm happy.

[JoeProBono]

[American in Israel]

Tired of the media pissing on my leg and telling me its raining. Creepy ass commies.

[liberalh8ter]

I live in Florida and try to avoid the mall at all costs. Where I live the Florida Cracker history lives on so even if we did have a mall and I were to shout it out, everyone would most likely look at me and ask if I was trying to sell a good cow horse.

[dagogo redux]

Heck I named my white rooster “Cracker” as a prideful nod to racial solidarity.

[BobNative]

Cracker Pejorative

Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a sometimes pejorative expression for white people, especially poor rural whites in the Southern United States.

Wikipedia

[Vehmgericht]

PLD called Ms. Jeantel “a racist pig.” PLD did you mean this as a compliment or an insult? I was under the impression that “cracker” referred to plumbers. Ms. Jeantel my be illiterate but she is an accomplished etymologist. Of course “cracker” is a complimentary term. Much like “crazy-ass” it is a term of respect. People often misunderstand the context. Context is everything. Hymietown is an endearing term for New York City. Now to Paula Deen. She is lucky she is avoiding jail time. She violated (albeit many years ago) a modern taboo. Taboo words a magic. In a post-Christian world magic will play a more prominent role.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

A whole mess of white people like to get worked up about the word “cracker,” some in the mistaken belief that this will somehow result in permission to use the n-word.

Pure BS.

[SamKeck]

I wonder how many times she’s said the word ‘cracker’.

Well, she does have a few "cracker" recipes available on the Internet ... most notably her "Georgia Cracker Salad" recipe on the Food website.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/georgia-cracker-salad-recipe/index.html

[az_gila]

Perhaps a better reference in this case is the Urban Dictionary.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cracker

Almost all of the definitions - many pages of them - state it’s a racist term.

[sauropod]

Lemme see if I get this straight...

Jeantel was at Gatorland, heard the same explanation Tommy Christopher did, and thus used the word in that sense?

Uh-huh.

[Reddy]

More proof that liberalism truly is a mental disorder. These people contort themselves into pretzels in order to defend the indefensible. Everything they derided about gwb is defended when zero does it. Libs would defend zero if he were able to achieve total compliance using the same means that Hitler used.

Psychopathy.

[Reddy]

I had to take a shower after going to that site. Unapologetic, generational racism on display from the left.

[Reddy]

Zimmerman is 1/8 black is considered white. zero is 1/2 white and considered black.

Your get labeled according to what advances the liberal cause.

[rockrr]

You’re absolutely correct. But remember that “He who controls the language shapes the debate”. We on the right tend to be conformists when using language. Words have meaning and uniform acceptance of the plain meaning of things is essential to a civil discussion.

But the left has no respect of language or of others. They use language to divide, not unify. Remember Alinsky’s rules for radicals?

* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

This is how they disenfranchise their opponents and they use fluid definitions of words in its execution. The use of “Cracker” is plainly pejorative and everyone knows it but they scratch out an alternate meaning and attempt to shame us into accepting a pejorative as a compliment.

* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

This (IMO) should be our response. Just like their overuse of the race card to shame and silence their opponents blew up in their faces, our ridicule of their rationalization of “cracker” serves the same purpose - it robs them of a tool that they wish to bludgeon us with.

[lastchance]

The author has been hit by a meteorite made of stupid gasses and rocks. The way Martin used it in the context it was used was an insult. Blacks of his class and demographics don’t mean “Cracker” as a shout out to old Fl cattle drive crackers.

[lastchance]

Have you ever seen the “Cracker trail ride”? I live near Fort Pierce and it comes through down town every year.

[lastchance]

There are still some true Floridians left in that area, but most would be out west or down Homestead way.

[Ditto]

I reside in central Floriduh and the term “cracker” is used here to identify a native Floridian. Evolved from the ranchers who used whips to corral their livestock.

Lots of blacks are native Floridians and I'm sure many of them used whips to heard livestock. Are they ever referred to as crackers?

[N. Theknow]

So.....a honky must be someone who raises geese?