One Last Drink Before Blowing His Brains Out

dlclotus · #21 ● 05-12-2020, 04:42 PM

Shticky???

Slayer1 · #22 ● 05-12-2020, 05:37 PM

The narration was better than the video.
I think being called a Cracker was the last straw for him.

gimlet · #23 ● 05-12-2020, 07:15 PM

I lived in Florida for eight years. I had cracker friends. We would go on cracker camping trips and go cracker lake fishing on a cracker bass boat. They were proud to be crackers. All it means is a backwoods Southern boy. They say "erl" for "oil". They are all white, but it is not heard as a racist slur. I understand the term comes from their old habit of crackin' corn—distilling moonshine—but now that you mention it, Saltines are white.

I heard "cracker" was a term used by slaves for the white slave drivers because they would "crack" the whip. You might investigate when the "cracker" term began, if before 1865 there is a good probability it wasn't Jimmy Crack Corn or saltines. BTW, a bullwhip cracks because the tail is actually going supersonic, a small sonic boom! That would be faster than many bullets shot from a Colt .45 Automatic.

The history of racial and derogatory terms is interesting. Black people call whites "honkies" because blacks usually encountered jewish shopkeepers with large noses in their neighborhoods, "honking" noses, IIRC.

intre · #24 ● 05-12-2020, 07:39 PM

cringed when I noticed that shitty slang.

cicueto · #25 ● 05-12-2020, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

I heard "cracker" was a term used by slaves for the white slave drivers because they would "crack" the whip. You might investigate when the "cracker" term began, if before 1865 there is a good probability it wasn't Jimmy Crack Corn or saltines. BTW, a bullwhip cracks because the tail is actually going supersonic, a small sonic boom! That would be faster than many bullets shot from a Colt .45 Automatic.

The history of racial and derogatory terms is interesting. Black people call whites "honkies" because blacks usually encountered jewish shopkeepers with large noses in their neighborhoods, "honking" noses, IIRC.

I've heard at least two other etymologies for the word honkie; I assume derogatory words are used more in spoken language so their history is murkier than words in common, non vulgar use. You're not going to find literature, newspapers, magazines I assume that use the word honkie. I guess letters might have the term.
Anyroad, I'm sure there are more stories as to how honkie or other racist words came to be.