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Originally Posted by Redrob
Having gone to junior high in Southeast Washington, DC, I was always lead to believe that the racist term "cracker" was because white people's color looked like a saltine cracker.
Had nothing to do with slavery or bosses.
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I've been called: cracker, powder, whitey... the term cracker came from old slavery.. Trust me.. I grew up in Iowa which was a northern state so it was a free state, but there were a lot of people that called white people "crackers" there..