2 definitions by Mary D. Sue
A word with very loaded connotations in the USA, mainly due to the fact that it was coined during the time of slavery - and can you imagine having zero rights and having a curse word made out of the skin you wear twenty four hours a day every fucking day for your entire life?
There is a division among black people about the word nowadays. Many are using it themselves in an effort to reclaim the word and change its meaning to something of a black term of endearment, but many others would prefer to put it to rest and move on.
To those who complain about the word "cracker;" your poor little wounded feelings are nothing compared to a day in the life of a black person. You do not run the risk of being arrested for buying something expensive because the shop owner thinks you stole the money to buy it, shot for holding a toy gun or wearing a hoodie, arrested for walking while black and being kept in jail so long that you miss your first term of college and lose your scholarship, etc., etc., etc. And if you don't think that African Americans face these things, drink your milk and go take your nap. I'm talking to the big kids.
There is a division among black people about the word nowadays. Many are using it themselves in an effort to reclaim the word and change its meaning to something of a black term of endearment, but many others would prefer to put it to rest and move on.
To those who complain about the word "cracker;" your poor little wounded feelings are nothing compared to a day in the life of a black person. You do not run the risk of being arrested for buying something expensive because the shop owner thinks you stole the money to buy it, shot for holding a toy gun or wearing a hoodie, arrested for walking while black and being kept in jail so long that you miss your first term of college and lose your scholarship, etc., etc., etc. And if you don't think that African Americans face these things, drink your milk and go take your nap. I'm talking to the big kids.
"Don't you niggers read signs? This is a whites-only establishment!"
"I'm gonna kill you, nigger..."
"TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT! WE AIN'T GONNA INTEGRATE! NO NIGGERS IN OUR SCHOOLS!"
It's actually perfectly normal for there to be a standard of who can use words and who can't:
Mom: "Hi honey-bunny!"
Me: "Hi Mom!"
Stranger: "Hi honey-bunny!"
Me: *creeped out stare*
Stranger: "Aw come on, how come your mom can say it and I can't?"
"I'm gonna kill you, nigger..."
"TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT! WE AIN'T GONNA INTEGRATE! NO NIGGERS IN OUR SCHOOLS!"
It's actually perfectly normal for there to be a standard of who can use words and who can't:
Mom: "Hi honey-bunny!"
Me: "Hi Mom!"
Stranger: "Hi honey-bunny!"
Me: *creeped out stare*
Stranger: "Aw come on, how come your mom can say it and I can't?"
by Mary D. Sue January 20, 2015
A symbolic song of the civil rights movement, and sadly still relevant in 2015.
"We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
We shall overcome some day;
Oh, deep in my heart (I know that) I do believe
That we shall overcome some day.
We are not afraid...
We are not alone...
We'll walk hand in hand...
Black and white together...
We shall all be free, we shall all be free,
We shall all be free some day;
Deep in my heart (I know that) I do believe
That we shall all be free some day!"
"We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
We shall overcome some day;
Oh, deep in my heart (I know that) I do believe
That we shall overcome some day.
We are not afraid...
We are not alone...
We'll walk hand in hand...
Black and white together...
We shall all be free, we shall all be free,
We shall all be free some day;
Deep in my heart (I know that) I do believe
That we shall all be free some day!"
Lyndon B. Johnson, introducing the Voting Rights Act of 1965: "But even if we pass this bill the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.
And we shall overcome."
And we shall overcome."
by Mary D. Sue January 20, 2015