Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 2/16/03 Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > >Thank you for noticing the racial slur. I'd also like to add, too, that >there seems to be no shortage of sexist remarks targeting women, and I saw >an offhand slur against non-straight folk last week as well. Neither of >those derogatory remarks made me especially happy. Not to mention the >reference to "crackers," which I tried to handle with some humor (and that >eventually led to some good cornbread and armadillo stew recipes!). > I didn't grow up where "cracker" was a slur - in fact it was an unknown. And it wasn't a term I heard much in Mississippi either. Lately I've been reading about the term moving into the mainstream, however, with middle and upper-middle class southerners talking about a "cracker lifestyle." I've come to associate it with a socio-economic term whose negative connotation were, for the most part, being diminished, and which was never as negative as any of the more common racial slurs. I did appreciate the recipes. I was amazed to see armadillos as far east as Nashville when I drove east this summer. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html