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Yes, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker". [View all]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/01/1220320/-Yes-George-Zimmerman-is-in-Fact-a-Creepy-CrackerYes, George Zimmerman is in Fact a "Creepy Cracker"
by chaunceydevega
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While talking on the phone to his friend Rachel Jaentel, Trayvon Martin apparently called George Zimmerman, the man who followed him in a vehicle, exited it with a gun, and pursued him against police instructions, a “creepy ass cracker.” In a twist of thinking, and an inversion of what studied, learned, and reasonable people understand about the realities of race and power in America, for colorblind conservative racists, George Zimmerman has been magically transformed into a victim of “reverse racism.”
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The truth can also be inconvenient: by virtue of his actions and character, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker."
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Cracker is in no way equivalent to the word nigger.
Were millions of white people killed and enslaved by blacks holding the lash and calling them “crackers?” Were there signs that segregated whites from blacks that read “no crackers need apply” or “crackers sit in the back of the bus”? Were white people burned alive, their bodies defiled, postcards taken of their corpses, and public gatherings where blacks killed “crackers” by the thousands? Were there racial pogroms where blacks running amok, pillaging, raping, murdering and destroying property at will, yelled out for the blood of “crackers” in places like Tulsa, East St. Louis, Chicago, and Rosewood? Were there sundown towns that had signs on their outskirts which told "crackers" “not to let the sun set on them here” or they will be killed?
No. To suggest that the words "cracker" and "nigger" are at all similar is an act which is both intellectually dishonest and a lie.
by chaunceydevega
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While talking on the phone to his friend Rachel Jaentel, Trayvon Martin apparently called George Zimmerman, the man who followed him in a vehicle, exited it with a gun, and pursued him against police instructions, a “creepy ass cracker.” In a twist of thinking, and an inversion of what studied, learned, and reasonable people understand about the realities of race and power in America, for colorblind conservative racists, George Zimmerman has been magically transformed into a victim of “reverse racism.”
...
The truth can also be inconvenient: by virtue of his actions and character, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker."
...
Cracker is in no way equivalent to the word nigger.
Were millions of white people killed and enslaved by blacks holding the lash and calling them “crackers?” Were there signs that segregated whites from blacks that read “no crackers need apply” or “crackers sit in the back of the bus”? Were white people burned alive, their bodies defiled, postcards taken of their corpses, and public gatherings where blacks killed “crackers” by the thousands? Were there racial pogroms where blacks running amok, pillaging, raping, murdering and destroying property at will, yelled out for the blood of “crackers” in places like Tulsa, East St. Louis, Chicago, and Rosewood? Were there sundown towns that had signs on their outskirts which told "crackers" “not to let the sun set on them here” or they will be killed?
No. To suggest that the words "cracker" and "nigger" are at all similar is an act which is both intellectually dishonest and a lie.
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