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On ‘Crackers’

Posted on | November 2, 2015 | 85 Comments

 

Latausha Nedd, alias “Eye Empress Sekhmet,” was a guest on Megyn Kelly’s show Monday night. Ms. Nedd became notorious after she posted a YouTube video ranting against police and white people:

In one segment, Nedd holds a machete in one hand and points a handgun at the camera with the other as she says, “Right now we declare, it’s open season on a motherf–king cracker. All you motherf–king crackers y’all need to watch your motherf–king heads.” Elsewhere in the video, Nedd suggests taking action against police. “I say let’s have a take a gun day, and start walking up on these untrained and stealing their weapons,” she says. She also suggests trying to take over a police station. Nedd lives less than two miles from the Clayton County [Georgia] police headquarters.

Ms. Nedd was arrested in September and charged with making terroristic threats. She appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show to claim that she didn’t really mean what she said. And in the course of her interview, Ms. Nedd claimed that the word “cracker,” as a pejorative for white people, originated as a code-word among black slaves.

Ms. Nedd is wrong. The true etymology:

Georgia Cracker refers to the original American pioneer settlers of the Province of Georgia (later, the State of Georgia), and their descendants. In the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, Georgia ranchers came to be known as “Georgia Crackers” by Floridians when they drove their cattle down into the grassy flatlands of Central Florida to graze in the winter, stopping where the citrus groves began. In order to get the cattle’s attention they became very adept at cracking a bullwhip. The term “cracker” was in use during Elizabethan times to describe braggarts. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning “entertaining conversation” (One may be said to “crack” a joke; a witty remark is a “wisecrack”). This term and the Gaelic spelling “craic” are still in use in Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in Shakespeare’s King John (1595): “What cracker is this… that deafes our eares / With this abundance of superfluous breath?” By the 1760s the English, both at home and in the American colonies, applied the term “Cracker” to Scotch-Irish and English settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a passage from a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: “I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” The word was later associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen.

So this “lawless set of rascalls,” to quote the Earl of Dartmouth, were known as “crackers” a term that, like “redneck,” referred specifically to a lower-class type of person –poor, uneducated, lacking social refinement. So you see that this word “cracker” was originally used by whites to put down other whites, and Ms. Nedd’s Afrocentric claims are entirely bogus. She is both ignorant and dishonest.

There is probably a word to describe a person as ignorant as Letausha Nedd, but I can’t imagine what that word would be.

 

Category: Racism

Comments

85 Responses to “On ‘Crackers’”

  1. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:09 pm

    I saw the Sneaky Greeks in Miami last year! They opened for Zombie African. You know, that reggae band with the white singer from Capetown?

  2. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:11 pm

    BWHAHAHA!

  3. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:12 pm

    Ms. Nedd is not the ideal client, let’s just say.

  4. CrustyB
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:17 pm

    I had the Sneaky Greeks once but I put some hydrocortisone on it and it was fine after a week.

  5. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:17 pm

    That’s the first thing I do every morning before my first cup of coffee, self-denounce myself. That way, I’m good for the whole day.

  6. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:19 pm

    There’s also “numb as a pounded thumb.”

  7. Finrod Felagund
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 6:41 pm

    I saw the Shitty Beatles open for the Sneaky Greeks once.

  8. Fail Burton
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:40 pm

    Did she just blaxsplain modern armaments to white people?

  9. Fail Burton
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:45 pm

    The champs are Islam. They reportedly took 17 million out of Africa, 1 to 2 million from S. Europe and 1 to 2 million Russians and Poles through the Crimean Khanates. That’s not including the Ottomans throughout SE Europe, e.g., the Balkans, Greece. That’s not including the Mughals in India. That’s not including Spain and the original Arab conquests. You’re probably looking at a cool 25 to 30 million as opposed to the 10.5 million Africans sent to the Americas by a coalition of black slavers and European slave transporters and sellers.

  10. Animal
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 8:29 pm

    My Grandpa used to tell me that would make you go blind and/or grow hair on your palms.

  11. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 8:59 pm

    Nah, I do that right before lunch and sometimes, if I’m feeling frisky, before dinner, too.

  12. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:01 pm

    I think her lawyer might have had something to do with that, and I betcha she fought him/her tooth and nail on it too.

  13. Mike
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:06 pm

    Hate to disagree with your esteemed self, but when the lawyer told her the number of zeros on the settlement check he was shooting for, I’d bet she didn’t fight him one single bit!

    She probably fought him on the sleeves, though. She has some ugly ass tattoos on her arms that he probably wouldn’t have minding covering up.

    And what’s with the Angela Davis ‘fro?

  14. Animal
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:24 pm

    I used to. But it always freaked out everybody else in the restaurant.

  15. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:46 pm

    Dude, isn’t that a butt disease?

  16. WarEagle82
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:48 pm

    It’s a good thing Obama has solved the racial divide in America.

    Otherwise, people like Ms. Nedd might inspire me to get my CCW and start carrying my own piece of artillery.

  17. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:53 pm

    Settlement check for what?? I’d imagine her lawyer would be more interested in keeping her dumb ass out of prison.

    Of course, I haven’t seen the video as it has been removed from You Tube for hate speech.

  18. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:58 pm

    I know, right? I’m no longer allowed in Applebys or TGI Fridays.

  19. Daniel Freeman
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:08 pm

    As bright as a darkroom and as sharp as a sphere.

  20. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:23 pm

    Ok though at Olive Garden

  21. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:31 pm

    Yeah, but don’t fondle the bread sticks.

  22. Animal
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:36 pm

    Please tell me you don’t hang out at Dunkin Donuts.

  23. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:07 pm

    What can I say…I don’t like Starbucks.

  24. Prime Director
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:24 pm

    There is probably a word to describe a person as ignorant as Letausha Nedd, but I can’t imagine what that word would be.

    The word is typical lol.

    I heard an older lady, clearly from the south, run this one on an irate ignoramus at walmart a few years back and the response was deafening silence. Its really a masterpiece of innuendo :^)

  25. Mike
    November 4th, 2015 @ 12:45 am

    Oh I’m sure before the dust clears, as a good victim, she’ll sue somebody for something.

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    November 4th, 2015 @ 9:44 am

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    November 5th, 2015 @ 6:28 am

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    November 5th, 2015 @ 6:28 am

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  29. theoldsargesays
    November 5th, 2015 @ 8:39 pm

    “There is probably a word to describe a person as ignorant as Letausha Nedd, but I can’t imagine what that word would be.”

    I haven’t scrolled down yet but if nobody has supplied that word, I’d be happy to do so.

  30. theoldsargesays
    November 5th, 2015 @ 8:44 pm

    J.B.H. tops out at the 3rd grade right?
    I mean by that time everyone should have learnt all the ciphering they ever be needin’.

  31. theoldsargesays
    November 5th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm

    I think the word is nigg….got to go for now. My phone’s ringing.

  32. theoldsargesays
    November 5th, 2015 @ 8:51 pm

    Loperamide would have tightened that up in 30 minutes.

  33. theoldsargesays
    November 5th, 2015 @ 8:55 pm

    While typical isn’t the would i would choose it is the one my wife would prefer me to use.

  34. Daniel Freeman
    November 7th, 2015 @ 3:51 am

    Oh, I know! “Democrat.”

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