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Originally Posted by Fastway
So you are saying it is different to hate a white American you have never met then a black American?
N* -a contemptuous term for a black or dark-skinned person.
Cracker, sometimes white cracker or cracka, is a derogatory term for white people.
The whips used by some of these people are called 'crackers', from their having a piece of buckskin at the end. Hence the people who cracked the whips came to be thus named
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No. That's not what I said. I said the terms are not comparable, and they aren't, because the history of the words are different. Just because two terms are the respective derogatory terms for a race doesn't mean they have the same history, and are on the same tier, because they aren't.
My point was, if you're not black, you're not in a position to discuss the usage of the N-word from an educated perspective because you don't know how that legit feels. Sure, you can feel like you have comparable experiences. But it's different. If you don't live that, and you don't deal with it on a daily basis, it's not something you can wrap your brain around. You can sympathize. But you won't be able to empathize, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. You may have had some hard times in your life, and that sucks for real.
You made my point when you defined the words. "Contemptuous" is downplaying the word immensely. If you weren't raped, torn from your families because the mom, dad, sister, brother etc were sold to someone else, casually thrown overboard a ship because the ship got too heavy, killed for trying to escape, whipped, etc while being called "cracker" then you can't compare the words. And hell "cracker" was coined because of whip cracker, you know, when they were in the position to own land and people.
One word was coined for the ones being oppressed, and the other was coined for the oppressors. That's as clear as I can be. My point was referring to the word usage. I never brought up distrust or angst towards "whitey," you did that.