Obama used the N word!

Never heard honky.... BUt I've heard the word cracker...which I have heard is a slur for Whites.. coming from slavery days when the white overseer would carry a whip and the word cracker comes from the sound the whip made.

My Alabama relatives always called folks from Gerorgia "Crackers".. Not sure why... They claimed that the folks from Georgia called them "Pea Pickers"
 

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I don't think that any slur can hurt very much when you are a member of the dominant and privileged group. It hurts a lot more when you are disadvantaged every day and the slur rubs this in. People of colour are not the only ones who feel this. The poor, the handicapped and the disenfranchised also feel it but the children of slaves must be especially sensitive.

To illustrate: if someone calls me a name that conjures up my skin colour (fair) it doesn't trouble me very much. At most it is an annoyance but if you belittle me as a female, because I'm a female, then the hackles will rise because I've had enough of that. More than enough.
 

QuickSilver said:
I don't think WASP is really a slur though... White Ango Saxon Protestant is a description.
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Correct QS and WOG originally meant Western Oriental Gentleman but even so, when you call someone a wog in Australia it had better be one of your friends and you had better be smiling. Otherwise you might just lose a tooth.
 
I think the ability to cause offense comes with the history. If the group referred to had been powerless... or otherwise looked down on the word will have more power. WASPs were never powerless... in fact they were ususally the group wielding the power.
 
truespock said:
Me too. The man is trying to take a decisive stand on one of our biggest crises and all the PC whiners can do is snivel about his dynamic terminology? Run for Congress, complainers; all they need is a few good wimps!
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What is so damn funny is that the group getting the vapors over his use of the word, is ususally the same group that complains everyone else to too PC.. They are kidding no one... they use that word...if only in their heads.. They just want something to berate Obama over.
 
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