On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Buck Savage wrote:
>
> > The term CRACKER is as old a the railroads, if not much
> > older than that: it was used in the 1800's (and to some
> > degree, this usage remains today) to refer to those
> > persons with a nack for entering a safe without permission!
> >
> > Forget your history, and you are doomed to relive it!
>
> You white boys is all crazy! Everyone knows a "cracker" is just another
> term for whitey.
Close, but no cigar. Actually, in the deep south, it referred to a 'poor
white' who may also have been characterized as 'white trash'.
- don
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Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 14:10:19 BST