"I Hope We Have No Crackers Here": EBF Staff Sanction Racial Slur
A week ago, residents of Enchanted Broccoli Forest discovered the words “No crackers!” scrawled in paint across their bus. Targeted towards whites from the South, especially ones who are poor and rural, the term “cracker” is widely recognized as a racial slur.
You would think that residents of a supposedly progressive and racially conscious house would jump to remove a racial epithet from house property. Not so. When a resident posted a picture in the EBF GroupMe last Thursday, peers brushed aside the incident with off-color jokes.
Disappointing, but, unfortunately, the story gets far worse. After a week, another resident, Ian Knight — a first-generation, low-income, white Southerner who felt understandably uncomfortable with the slur — raised the issue in the house GroupMe and was immediately dismissed as an apologist for “reverse racism.”
When other residents had worried that the “problematic” fake tepee on the porch of their retreat AirBnB represented cultural appropriation, staff members immediately responded: the tepee would be removed by the first car to the house. But when Ian pointed out that something should be done about the blatantly racist graffiti on the bus, his concerns were brushed aside. One resident simply responded “No,” receiving fourteen likes from house members.
Other residents accused Ian of piggybacking on the complaints of people of color to raise his less-important “white” concerns, while others shamefully tried to excuse the slur for being “deserved.” The graffiti didn’t matter because white people are, by nature, oppressive and racist, they said — all while enjoying the best university in the world, while rural whites suffer grinding poverty. If anything, a blatantly racist act of vandalism is far more clear-cut than the murky concept of “cultural appropriation.” ...
You should read the article to see the screen captures I didn’t quote here. It’s not news that in a nation of 310million there are 16 self-loathing anti-white racist. What’s concerning to me is I see these same views expressed by many others across all flavors of social media, by the same kind of hate fueled self-loathers.
Anyway, regardless of polls or special elections, the louder these people get, the more likely we’ll see a second term for Trump.
/shrug
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
DrYouth wrote:But we can call each other crackers, right...
Let's appropriate the term, and turn it into a source of empowerment....
Cracker Hats anyone!
The click I ran with in school called our "90's style suburban gang" Crackers or La Club of Corn if you aren't one for the whole brevity thing.
“I've got a phone that allows me to convene Americans from every walk of life, nonprofits, businesses, the private sector, universities to try to bring more and more Americans together around what I think is a unifying theme..." - Obama
I kinda like being a cracker. I think the next time there's "other" on the form, I'm going to fill in "cracker," and if someone asks me my race, I'm certainly going to say "cracker."
