Posted on 06/28/2013 8:02:10 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Who cares if Trayvon Martin called George Zimmerman a “creepy ass cracker”? White grievance-mongers, that’s who
Finally people on the right have begun to see that there may be an aspect of racism at the heart of the Trayvon Martin case – and predictably, it’s against accused killer George Zimmerman.
On Wednesday prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel, who was on her cellphone with Martin while he was being pursued by Zimmerman, actually testified that Martin told her he was being followed by “a creepy ass cracker.” But it wasn’t until Thursday that it blew up the right wing of the Internet – when Jeantel offered the badgering defense attorney Don West her opinion that the term isn’t racist.
From Glenn Beck’s the Blaze to the Breitbots to smaller right-wing shriekers to Twitter trolls everywhere, white grievance-mongers seemed less bothered by the fact that Martin allegedly used the term, than by Jeantel saying it wasn’t a slur.
For the record: I have been known to say “Jesus Christ on a cracker,” and I want to make clear I am not praying for the Son of God to jump a white person.
My God, don’t these people get tired of themselves? So much of the trumped-up racial upset on the right, generally, is about language: If black people can use the N-word, why can’t we? (Even Paula Deen tried to use that as self-defense at first.) Now we’re moving on to: If the N-word is racist and forbidden, words like “cracker” should be, too.
But “cracker” has never had the same power to demean, or to exile, or to sting. No social order has ever been devised whereby African-Americans oppress people they deride as “crackers.”
We don’t even really know where the term comes from. I’ve seen it suggested that enslaved black people invented it because of the “crack” of the slavemaster’s whip, but it was used by planter class elites to describe the hardscrabble Scots-Irish dating back to the late 18thcentury. (Both meanings could be true.) If it’s demeaning at all — and some white Southerners have embraced it — it derives from white-on-white snobbery. But like most discussions of white class distinctions in this country, this one will be preempted … because black racism!
Still, I’m not sure why Zimmerman defense attorney Don West zeroed in on Martin’s use of the term, or even less relevant, what Jeantel thought it meant. (For the record, she seemed to focus on the “crazy ass” part and said she thought Martin was trying to describe a “pervert” pursuing him, which is why she said she told him to run away.) Those shocked by the fact that she didn’t see a racial slur in Martin calling Zimmerman “cracker” might note that she also said her friend told her “the nigga is behind me,” right before Zimmerman caught up to Martin. Maybe that proves Martin is the real racist!
On the week that the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act because we’ve supposedly come so far in eradicating racism, there’s a perverse kind of political poetry in the outcry on the right over the use of the word “cracker” here. Let’s remember: a white and Latino man is on trial for killing a young black man, in a clash that began because the white/Latino man thought the black man was hanging around someplace where he didn’t belong, looking “like he’s up to no good.” But let’s freak out over the victim reportedly describing the accused as a “cracker.” Crackers, please …
Let’s try that again:
The term “cracker” used by black racists comes from the color of Saltines, i.e., white.
It’s Joan Walsh.
I’d take one but do you have it in White??
Cracker is not racist.
Some (esp. blacks) think it applies to the whiteness of saltine crackers and intend it as a racist insult.
But “cracker” really applies to the cracking of cattle drovers’ whips. Those were the original “crackers.”
Allow me to translate.
"I make my money by writing articles. I have no original thoughts, so I have to echo off the thoughts of intelligent people like Glenn Beck. This issue was 'trending' on TWITTER so I read the tweets and came up with this lame, liberal, white guilt laden rationalization for ignoring the facts of the case so I could pay my bills."
(It's always about the MONEY)
“White grievance mongers”
I love it. Just say the “N” word and see what happens to your cracka azz.
And, once again, if Zimmerman used a racial word, then it’s obvious he’s a murdering racist.
We know Martin used one, but it’s OK, because it’s not as bad as the one Zimmerman might have used.
Liberals have never met a double-standard they didn’t like.
That's exactly right, Florida Cattle drovers herding Yellowhammers using dogs possibly riding Marsh Tackies. (Not to be confused with the Florida Cracker Horse, which was also likely).
Maybe she eats too many 'white crackas'.
“So, are racist blacks whole wheat crackers?”
I was kinda thinkin’ maybe the little rye chips that come in Gardetto’s.
“What a biotch. Of course that’s not a sexist term, just a term of endearment for over-educated, intellectually poverty stricken, white, guilt ridden liberal women....”
As I am fond of saying.... not all women are bitches. And not all bitches are women.
The odd thing is that many ‘cowboy’ ‘crackers’ were Negro.
Zimmerman is clearly innocent. The left and their lemmings in the black community don’t realize or don’t care that they were being used by Obama to stir up blacks to show up at the polls. Now that the election is over, he doesn’t care, but the snowball he kicked off the mountain keeps rolling along.
His pawns are dangerous and pathetic.
Lord help me for the pretzel logic that black and race apologist put themselves into.
Hmm - Let us put Joan and her family in Detroit or E St Louis or New Orleans or Watts or Gary or Anacostia or any number of black majority enclaves and then vote.
Who cares if Paula Deen used “n****r” in a joke years ago? Black grievance-mongers, that’s who.
It works both ways. Either it is fine to use derogatory terms by both or it isn't.
Plumbers everywhere should be offended and Unite!
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