I don’t get it, crackers are just savoury biscuits?
I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it’s an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.
In all my CRACKER years, I have never got upset about that racist term. I grew up as the minority in my area. So very familiar with all the racial slang against white folks. White bread, honky, uncle tom, colonizer, casper and etc.
Probably because you’re not a slave-owner… Honestly, I wonder who would be upset by it in earnest, since those who could actually feel targeted wouldn’t give a fugg, lol. 😅
Make no mistake it was used as a racial slur toward me. So the Black community where I lived just has a cycle of racism. Mostly low income as well. That also includes Native American community. I had more issues with them to be real.
I kept to myself growing up besides my close friends and brother. When I was in pre-school a Native American teen would beat us up. He even stabbed me in the back with a pencil. He jumped my brother while he was riding his bike. We were 6-7 at time. He threw a rock hit my head had to go to hospital. He jumped me one day so I picked up a piece of glass and ended up cutting my finger had to go to hospital.
We moved to a new low income area. Instead of just Native American beating us up and harrassing us for being white. We had now added black community. We would get beat up on the bus and have fights at school. None of this shit was provoked just us being white in a Native/Black dominated area. Fast forward after years of this shit, I learned to fight. Didn’t change situation other than me showing others that I will fight. I had a 19yr old fight me on a school bus I was 16. This was after his friend knocked one of my brother’s teeth out in the damn lunch line. Dude skipped lunch line brother said hey man line is back their boom punched in face. My brother just told the teacher didn’t even fight back (I wasn’t there) both suspended. They said he provoked the fight. I finally achieved don’t fuck with me status in the 10th thru 12 grade. I have more but you get the picture.
I have friends of all race and religions and get along with everyone. So despite all the bullshit, I maintained who I am and didn’t turn into a shit head.
So when I hear white people can’t experience racism I just chuckle.
Oh, they definitely can, irrational hatred knows no race. Thanks for sharing and I’m sorry about your very shitty experience. I have been lucky enough never to experience real racism (besides people calling me any and every racial slur online, but that’s expected playing League/surfing the chans, lol). And I’m very glad to see it hasn’t deformed you! ❤️👍
I’ve always preferred honky if given a choice of what to be called.
colonizer isn’t even a racial slur, it’s just, like, factually true
but i guess tapeworm-skinned fuckers not accepting uncomfortable facts is nothing new 🤷♀️
I personally don’t recall if in my previous life if I was a colonizer.
Uncle tom seems out of place in that list
It was used for Black and white folks. At least where I grew up.
only person i knew who ever got upset about racial epithets for white people was a jews for jesus guy. theoretical jewish heritage (if you want to get really phrenological about it (and you know how reliable that is) his dad and a couple of his siblings had stereotypical aquiline noses. everyone but one of the sisters looked good before we got to personalities, if we’re honest)), balls to the wall evangelical prepper doomer end times bullshit everything else. I’m assuming they either had been called or were overly sentitive to slurs toward jews (and i grew up in the California Bay Area, the first time I heard the K-slur was in college), but these kids had sticks up their asses and would whine about being called cracker or whitey by other white kids. which of course, encouraged worse teasing.
