Those type of people also migrate from the north. I know I grew up with a number of them, the confederate flag in upstate NY types, and many are now in Florida. In fact some went to become corrections officers... imagine that.
White trash is the other one I can think of. And, like those others, it just doesn't bother me. If someone called me any one of those, I'd have a hard time not laughing because they are pretty weak insults. Like calling someone jerkface. I guess there's malicious intent, but you could say so much worse to someone.
People like you make it insult enough for me just to be another white person. There's nothing a black person could say that would make me feel more shame than knowing that you exist.
You're right. I'm white, but even so I surely should have called you cracka. My apologies, my cracka...
Agreed on the second point. On the first, I certainly wasn't trying to imply that the word drove the racism, but rather that the earlier use of the word was tied to a whole lot more wealth building (and really to nation building) than the more recent usage in rap. I think we're splitting some pretty fine hairs here…
I love you.
Shoot, you, uh, beat me to that.
The officer wrote that Pierce couldn't keep his balance, at times had trouble following directions, wobbled, and swayed.
Fair enough. I thought "invented" might be disputed, but I stand by the fact that slave owners and Jim Crow southerners have derived more from that word than anyone. Particularly when you count the sense of superiority that racism, and racism alone, gave white sharecroppers who couldn't admit they were in the exact…
I'm sorry for everything you must have to go through. Not the being black, I'm sure that's tough, but CNN?!?! Jesus. Just sorry man.
Just to make sure we're taking this seriously enough, what are some racial epithets that are commonly used against white people? As a white guy I've still never, ever, been called any of them and I certainly don't know of any that are offensive or historically loaded the way the N word in question is.
Oh, cracker please.
As a white person I can't disclaim this emphatically enough. You're a fucking idiot. There's no comparison at all between the two — I have never once been offended by the word cracker. I don't know any honest white person that has. If you want to say racist shit, just do it, but quit trying to hide behind some…
Right, if they were singing about hanging african americans it would be no less offensive. The debate about the N word is white misdirection at its finest.
Even if he's making money off that word, which I dispute entirely, he's just playing catchup. The same people that invented the word harvested more blood and treasure from it than black Americans ever will be able to. We built our country on the backs of blacks while calling them that — if they want the word back…
3. We are a terrible audience and we get the terrible media that we deserve.
I'd settle for the old commenting system where I couldn't even get a comment posted, but neither could they.
If he was white, this entire article still works.