Crackers (Re: Rock & Roll and Language)

[Paul Mackin]

Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote: (about the term 'cracker.'

> It's a lot like other ethnic terms--members of the group can say it but
> outsiders better watch their step.


I say: Quite true. Plus there's the noblesse oblige factor.
The dominant group has to be more careful. In Florida politics
crackers are still plausibly in the ascendency. However, don't
refer to a white southerner who comes into D.C. to install your
water heater a cracker, not to his face anyway.

			P.