I Need Some Help With A Definition Of A Word... [View all]

[ChiciB1]

I know there must be tapes of Rachel Jenteal's testimony during the GZ trial, but I really didn't check them out at the time. Now I would like to listen to some parts of it, not just read the transcript because of an argument I had with my sister.

While she feels that it was more about Trayvon being on trial rather than "Georgie" and she also feels that had GZ stayed in his truck Trayvon would not have died. In short, she thinks Trayvon was murdered as I do myself.

But, when it comes to politics and/or religion we are very far apart. She lives in TX, is pretty much a fundamentalist and listens to talk radio and Faux news. I live in Florida, am an agnostic or perhaps an atheist and am probably more liberal than many here at DU. I read a lot and do more research regarding news rather than just taking one person's or one outlet view point.

So here's the question. We were talking about Jenteal's testimony and she said that it probably hurt her because of things she said that the jurors didn't understand. One word in particular came up. The word "cracker" which she said was "cracka" that to her was reverse discrimination from when it came to defining GZ. We didn't actually argue, because I simply said I wasn't sure exactly how she said it, or even if "cracka" meant something else.

We are both white (obviously) but to me what Rachel said was ok anyway because actually GZ made some racial comments of his own under his breath. I'm sure most here know what comments I'm talking about.

So, what does "cracker" mean to anyone here, and is the word "cracka" just how she pronounced "cracker" or does it have a deeper meaning? My interpretation of cracker used to define a person was that they were white.