I don't think the word cracker should be allowed at Apolyton

[Dis]

what I find interesting is mankinds need to make up words. gook isn't a word, someone had to make that up.

It's times like these, I believe racism is inherant to the human race. There is no getting rid of it.

[Dis]

by the way.

some of you may have heard the term honkey in the James Bond movie: Live and Let Die. Anyone who is a James Bond fan should have seen this movie. It has the wonderful Jane Seymour in it.

It's also regarded as the most racist of the Bond movies . A lot of people balked at the fact that black people are the bad guys. And they use terms like "You got a honkey on your tail"- referring to James Bond of course.

And the movie is on TNN right now

[Chilean President™]

what does "honkey" means?

[mrmitchell]

Much as caucasians have their own derogatory labels for the African race, an old term I believe to be mostly of African-American use for the derogatory labelling of caucasians is "honkey".

(I hope I didn't say anything that might be politically incorrect...

[Chilean President™]

ah ok, thanks mrmitchell

well if someone tell me honkey when I'll get to the US I'll punch him in the face

j/k



I find interesting the 'politically correct' terms that you guys use. For example (and I hope not offend any body) in Chile we do not have people of colour, so we commonly use the word 'black' to refer them, and I know that over there the proper term is 'afro-american', as native american for what we call here 'indians'. But when I got really surprise was when I met a (white) American that was in bussiness here and a friend of me ask him for something about 'white people' and he got really mad cause he said that the term 'white' was racist... and I didn't get it, well after all we are also white and we call ourselves white people.

Well, I think that's because Americans are more use to find people of different races, that's why you have so many 'politically correct terms'.

good for you

[geeslaka]

We have so many 'politically correct' terms because of idiots that look for any excuse they can think of to be offended and get angry.

[mrmitchell]

and he got really mad cause he said that the term 'white' was racist...

He was a nut. No one here uses "caucasian" in every day speech; "African American" is a distant second to "black" really. I was exxagerating for effect. sorry

[Chilean President™]

He was a nut.

sorry

don't worry
And I actually use the word 'black' on english and not the word on spanish 'cause I know that, that word is offensive.

[Dis]

negro? It's a perfectly legitimate spanish word to describe the color of something.

[The Mad Monk]

Did anyone actually get around to giving the origin of "cracker" as a slur?

It's a shortening of "whip cracker", i.e., "slaver". So we're being called slavers. Specifically, it refers to the plantation foremen who used the whip liberally.

I'll see what I can find on "honkey".

[Q Classic]

gook isn't an american word.

the origins of it came from the korean war, when koreans would ask soldiers if they were americans-- "mi.guk(.sa.ram)" is the word, but the americans obviously had no idea what they were saying and so shot them (or not, as the case may be).

'course, since they had no idea that it should have referred to them, they used it to refer to the koreans, at least until vietnam came along, when the word was redefined to its current definition, which refers to the vietnamese.

[geeslaka]

So apparently the idea that it doesn't matter where you come from only applies to people and not to words.

[Hydey]

If while sitting at the bar, some ****** comes up to me and calls me a cracker I am likely to say "G'Day Mate, would you like a beer?"

Then after 10 or so beers we will be laughing at all the different names we can call each other.

Yes i am trying to be funny and not to offend for you childish morons who would take offence

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Hydey
If while sitting at the bar, some ****** comes up to me and calls me a cracker I am likely to say "G'Day Mate, would you like a beer?"

Then after 10 or so beers we will be laughing at all the different names we can call each other.

Yes i am trying to be funny and not to offend for you childish morons who would take offence

I almost didn't believe a friend of mine when he told me about such things in Oz. His term was 'black fella'. Apparently, not too many people are too hung up on language. I still haven't figured out if that is a good thing. But hey, if it works down under, not mine to judge.

[Skanky Burns]

Sounds normal to me.