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So, does "cracker" mean like cracking a whip? Or does it mean white like a saltine?
Inquiring crackers wanna know...

To be pedantic, which I rarely shirk from, the term predates the era of white overseers and refers to poor white mule drivers, which the old South had an abundance of in colonial times. A lot of people do think it refers to the crack of the overseer's whip, and mean it that way when they say it. A lot of people mean 'pale like a saltine' when they say it, too. In that sense, I think it may be the one racially-based pejorative that can actually hurt a honkey's feelings, if they realize it doesn't necessarily mean a pale, salty wafer.

So why not just call a nigger a nigger and be done with it?
Why must you make it us/them and bring racism into it?
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