A black guy who calls any white guy a cracker is like a black guy who calls Mexicans crackers. A black guy who calls a Mexican a cracker isn't right in the head, so why would a black guy like that be right in the head for calling every white person he comes in contact with cracker?
Richard Pryor called Chevy chase a cracker on tv because he wasn't right in the head, not because he had beef from 200 years ago with Chevy chase and his family.
by Solid Mantis June 09, 2018
by CHEFBIGGIE January 12, 2020
There's a lot of black kids who call all white people crackers based on skin color. There are a lot of different groups of white people, just like there are different ethnic groups of brown skinned folks. Black people were fighting some groups for jobs in the cities. Polish people weren't cracking whips back in those days, Irish and Germans didn't come home from work to a house full of slaves. Italians and Russians weren't likely to keep slaves to increase mob productivity. Since when were all white people crackers even in the south? Many couldn't afford to keep slaves, and there were black soldiers in the confederate army. Calling any white person you see a cracker isn't opening doors to a more tolerant world, where did this bullshit come from?
Hollering cracker at some white guy walking while you're with your three friends as you floor it down the road isn't gonna make the past any more wonderful over some shit that was between you and a family who owned a plantation. You can get out of your car and let some guy know how you feel if there really is something you don't like about him.
by Solid Mantis June 09, 2018
Cracker, is a term of contempt for the "poor" or "mean whites," particularly of Georgia and Florida. The term dates back to the American Revolution, and is derived from the "cracked corn" which formed their staple food.
by Enufephizzy April 19, 2007
Crackers were poor white folk who lived in the south during the antebellum era. Given their name because of their staple diet of crack-corn, crackers were often hired by plantation owners in order to replace a slave in dangerous jobs. The high prices of slaves during the 1830s and 40s made It efficient to use a cracker rather than a slave. If a planter lost or injured a slave he would be pressed to buy another slave, but if the cracker got injured or died, finacially, the planter would have been unaffected. Crackers had a very low standard of living. Many of them lived in forests and dug holes in the ground to live in. despite their living conditions and their social status, crackers stilled believed they were better than the african slaves. Today, cracker is often used as a derogatory term for a white person for obvious reasons. It implies a person who lives in the utmost worst conditions and a person who no one really cares about.
Southern Women: We have some water dripping into the house. I think it is comin from the roof.
Southern plantation owner: I'll get a cracker to fix it.
Southern plantation owner: I'll get a cracker to fix it.
by Half and Half May 07, 2008
by The Cracker Chief October 18, 2010
by D-BONEZ November 27, 2008