[Tao Yin]

a white who might not object to being called a cracker by another white might consider Martin's use of the phrase offensive and evidence of ill intent. .

I've never heard this before or even thought this before. It is true? Weird.

[Gaffer]

I was making a loosely connected comment that this word is offensive to me, particularly if someone black uses it.

Much like anyone’s (at least anyone white) use of the N-word.

Also, further illustrating the duplicity that it apparently is okay, as evidenced by black comedians, the black populace in general, and in the media’s apathy towards such, for one black to use the N-word to another black or to anyone for that matter as long as the utteror is black.

Consequently, ripping it off from another Freeper, I’m taking that word, Cracker, and making it a White-only word (because I am white). so there everybody...