A black group (New Black Panthers) threatens to kill "crackers" and "cracker babies" (cracker is a term for native Floridians which came to be used as a pejorative for all whites, just as did "redneck" which originally meant southern tenant farmer with a sunburn), and the threat is ignored by the media, the Department of Justice and the NAACP. Rush uses it to draw attention to the deliberate oversight and the irony and they are all over it. The media are sooooo slow.
I link to a Floridian librarian who calls her blog Florida Cracker--these are people proud of the name. That's the problem with pejoratives, isn't it? It used to be unacceptable to use the word black when referring to Negroes, or gay or queer in referring to homosexuals. Now black is preferred over Negro, and everyone uses gay--the word when embraced by the group, becomes acceptable. Cracker is a pejorative when the NBP uses it, but not when a Floridian refers to a Floridian.
Rush Limbaugh calls Steinbrenner a "cracker" | HardballTalk
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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The Brits use the term"cracker' to mean good looking...as in"when she was young she was quite a cracker!" I assume they mean it that way...wish people would leave reading meanings into perfectly good words...most of us have enough trouble trying to speak correctly these days-watching this or that-not to offend-and by being careful come across as not very well spoken.
I'd never heard that, so thanks for the update.
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