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The name "cracker" has been around since long before saltines were invented. Shakespeare used the term. Try again.
Sounds like you are projecting.
Who has ever said that beating Reginald Denny was justified?
Have you ever been outraged over the mistreatment that Black people in the USA have suffered, and continue to suffer every day in conservative-land ?
I doubt it.
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
Monkey has been around a long time, too. Would you be ok with calling a black person a monkey?
I'm thinking you would be screaming racist til the cows came home.
Please explain how your thinking process works, it should be illuminating.
Cracker was a term first applied to poor rural dwellers who cracked corn as subsistence food.
Please explain how your thinking process works, it should be illuminating.
Cracker was a term first applied to poor rural dwellers who cracked corn as subsistence food.
Does that thought make you happy or sad?
"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
Poor, white rural dwellers, from the southern United States.
You're going to experience failure trying to claim that cracker isn't a racist term.
It's incredibly telling that Libbos defend racist behavior.
Please explain how your thinking process works, it should be illuminating.
Cracker was a term first applied to poor rural dwellers who cracked corn as subsistence food.
Poor Scots/Irish rural dwellers, described as such by better off English dwellers. White on White racism!
Like I said, I knew that you would see it that way. I'm okay with that. /shrug
Poor Scots/Irish rural dwellers, described as such by better off English dwellers. White on White racism!
Why are you asking me questions I already answered?How else do you expect someone to take it when you offer up nothing as a counter point?
are you just going to purposely ignore my citation?
Thus proving my point.
Your point was a reference to saltine biscuits, not poor ex-bondsmen.
"Free" and "online" tend to devalue the source. It's only one of many sources with differing opinions.
Each one a selective cropping of the full definition. cherry-picking in action.
This thread demonstrates to me that high school must have a required class on racial issues. There is so much ignorance and people need to be educated about their society. It's no longer acceptable for white people to put their head in the sand when it comes to racial issues.
I'm not impressed with ones personal or community problems. We're discussing sociology and the impacts of actual racism on society. A couple privileged white boys having a hard time now and then is neither significant nor anything that anyone is not aware of. Such myopic vision only serves to perpetuate the misconception that personal anecdotes carry the weight and breadth of actual studies and the society-wide concerns therein.
LOL. That is a terrible idea. You want to get rid of racism? Stop seeing everything in terms of "black" and "white" (or "Latino" etc. etc.) Race is a social construct. So what we should be teaching is getting rid of said social construct. Not teaching about how one socially constructed group is to blame for every other socially constructed group's problems.
The above post is an example of why we need a mandatory class on race in high school. In fact, it should be a three part course on race, gender and sexuality. The first subject to be covered will be "why colorblindness is a myth". The first text in the course will be The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois.LOL. That is a terrible idea. You want to get rid of racism? Stop seeing everything in terms of "black" and "white" (or "Latino" etc. etc.) Race is a social construct. So what we should be teaching is getting rid of said social construct. Not teaching about how one socially constructed group is to blame for every other socially constructed group's problems.
The above post is an example of why we need a mandatory class on race in high school. In fact, it should be a three part course on race, gender and sexuality. The first subject to be covered will be "why colorblindness is a myth".
Colorblindness is a myth.So you believe that people should be judged on the color of your skin? You just said colorblindness is a myth.
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