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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. Mike G.
    November 2nd, 2015 @ 11:29 pm

    Ig-nor-am-us and ugly as hell to boot.

  2. Mike G.
    November 2nd, 2015 @ 11:37 pm

    I wonder if her Mama put that ring in her nose to keep her from rooting under the fence.

    (I denounce myself for that.)

  3. Quartermaster
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 6:27 am

    The poor girl. Obviously a victim of the public schools.

  4. LIbtardian slayer
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 6:35 am

    Hatred of white could be the federal religion and rev wright could be the pope

  5. Gunga
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 6:42 am

    “There is probably a word to describe a person as ignorant as Letausha Nedd…”

    Is ‘ignotardiot’ a word? To be fair, she is one of the unintentionally funniest people to be in the news lately.

  6. RS
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:17 am

    Yet another example of how one’s influence is determined not by knowledge of a subject, but by “authenticity” within a specific group. As long as one is deemed “authentic,” one may pontificate to one’s heart’s content without fear of anyone calling “bullshit” on one’s bullshit. File this in the drawer next to Dworkin’s pre-patriarchal hobbits.

    Aside: There’s no better indictment of the public school system than the fact that a substantial chunk of the last few generations believes that history and language sprang fully formed from the heads of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky last Thursday. Geeeeze-Louise on a mountain bike!

  7. Fail Burton
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:29 am

    Using youtube and holding a gun smacks of cultural appropriation. Communicating her mindless threats via drums and holding a spear would be more appropriate. Even more authentic would be for her to express her wishes from where there are few crackers – Africa.

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  9. Dana
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:31 am

    Our esteemed host wrote:

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

    [Raising hand!] Considering that she recorded and broadcast something that got her a terroristic threatening charge, I’d suggest that the word would be stupid!

  10. Dana
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:32 am

    I’ll second your denunciation!

  11. CrustyB
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 7:48 am

    Black Africans thousands of years ago had sophisticated bubble cities, traveled around in rocket cars and jet packs, and spent most of their time studying science, philosophy and literature. One day stupid white cave men attacked and destroyed the cities, killing and enslaving the citizens. Why didn’t they fight back? Because black people are too good and morally opposed to violence.

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  12. Toastrider
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 8:06 am

    I swear these people think Wakanda is a real place.

  13. trangbang68
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 8:53 am

    This cretin and those of her ilk are the shock troops for decades of leftist class envy and race baiting. While devils like Sharpton, Malik Shabazz and Eric Holder stir the pot, these jokers are people of action. They are very similar to Ernst Roehm’s brownshirts in pre- Nazi Germany, busting heads while the fuhrer in waiting and demogogues like Julius Steicher threw out the rhetoric. This is dangerous.

  14. Fail Burton
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:18 am

    Black Africans enslaved more black Africans than anyone. Sometimes they kept them, sometimes they sold them to Arabs, Berbers or Europeans. When evil colonialists like Speke, Burton and Livingstone explored places around 1875 no Europeans had ever been, they found Arabs and Swahili trading in ivory and slaves. European colonialists also abolished slavery anywhere they found it in Africa. I’m not saying colonialism was a cakewalk for the locals, but why would evil guys abolish slavery?

  15. Animal
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:27 am

    “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 can think of quite a few, but none of them are suitable for polite company.

  16. Dana
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 9:58 am

    Is “intellectually challenged” acceptable in polite company?

    How ’bout dumb as a box of rocks?

  17. marcus tullius cicero
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:17 am

    …Lettuce Naaa= Obama Voter.

  18. Finrod Felagund
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:20 am

    I like to use “room-temperature IQ”, myself. If I feel like really insulting them, I’ll add “in Celsius”.

  19. odin2
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 10:20 am

    LOL

  20. CrustyB
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:07 am

    Just about every culture on the planet has engaged in slavery & conquest. The reason why white people get so much discrimination and hatred is because we were better at it than most.

  21. jim
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:21 am

    “Ignoranus” should be a word. Would mean ignorant a$$hole.

  22. Bob Belvedere
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:22 am

    -Indeed. These people would like to bring about Helter Skelter [which, ironically, was a theory developed by a cracker].

    –They are very similar to Ernst Roehm’s brownshirts….

    That mean their men are on the Down Low?

  23. trangbang68
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:29 am

    that too!

  24. Matthew W
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 11:53 am

    Most likely gradiated from Jethro Bodine High

  25. Matthew W
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 12:15 pm

    Or typical Obama voter

  26. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 12:19 pm

    Off topic, but these crackers are killer: http://designassets.traderjoes.com/Uploads/51651-pane-guttiau-crackers-di.png

  27. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 12:26 pm

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wi9-LtCvpz0/Vjh2S9XwudI/AAAAAAAA0pA/hmE1tAIXm2w/s1600/a8ffba9a3f637cb30e0c9ccb9361b08c.jpg

    Hamilton, Shakespeare and Crackers

  28. Mike G.
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 12:43 pm

    That was a given.

  29. Jeanette Victoria
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 1:01 pm

    Democrate work for me

  30. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:08 pm

    But those are not Georgia crackers!

  31. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:09 pm

    She went the full retard.

    Never go full retard.

  32. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:09 pm

    Ummm, I would prefer the spelling “stoopid.”

  33. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:12 pm

    I have always wondered about that theft. Supposedly the Greeks stole democracy and math and geometry and all that neat stuff from this advanced African culture.

    Thing is, if you “steal” another person’s idea, they still have that idea. How did those sneaky Greeks steal the idea and then eradicate it from the minds of these Africans?

    And incidentally it now occurs to me that The Sneaky Greeks would be a killer name for a band.

  34. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:14 pm

    Slavery has been the condition of much of humanity for most of human history. It’s only in the past two centuries that the very concept has become universally abhorrent.

    Well, universally abhorrent in Western culture anyway.

  35. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:15 pm

    Thick as a brick?

    Dumber than a sack of hammers?

  36. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:17 pm

    Call her a hemorrhoid. An inflamed a$$hole.

  37. Finrod Felagund
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:20 pm

    Really don’t mind if you sit this one out.
    My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.
    I may make you feel but I can’t make you think.
    Your sperm’s in the gutter, your love’s in the sink.
    So you ride yourselves over the fields
    And you make all your animal deals
    And your wise men don’t know how it feels
    To be thick as a brick.

  38. Mike
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:35 pm

    Cracker? How offensive! I prefer “Saltine American”.

  39. Mike
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:38 pm

    I noticed all the piercings in her video. Now that she’s on the interview circuit (and the docket) they’ve mostly disappeared.
    And the ring through her nose was sooooo attractive!

  40. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:42 pm

    Well no, but there are three TJs in Atlanta.

  41. RS
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:43 pm

    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.

    Let me say as someone who’s practiced criminal law on both sides of the street for awhile, rule one is “Shut the ‘F’ up.”

    Rule two is remove unnecessary piercings and never been seen in public without a beagle puppy until the case is concluded.

    Rule three is dress like June Cleaver.

  42. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:46 pm

    http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cheddar-parmesan-crackers-recipe.html This recipe would work. Want to make them Georgia crackers? You can substitute pecans for cheese (but I would probably go with both). You can also use vodka or moonshine instead of water (that would make them extra crispy–it is chemistry).

  43. Steve Skubinna
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:54 pm

    I’ve seen pie crust recipes that use vodka for part of the liquid. It’s supposed to help prevent the crust getting tough.

  44. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 2:55 pm

    It absolutely works, inhibits gluten production during kneading. Alcohol also boils off faster than water which allows the crust to get crispy w/o burning.

  45. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:02 pm

    Loved the costumes!

  46. Quartermaster
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:03 pm

    Denizens of this blog get that. Most of the targets wouldn’t.

  47. DeadMessenger
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:03 pm

    [snort!] Good one.

  48. Quartermaster
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:04 pm

    Before the slave trade, they simply killed them.

  49. Quartermaster
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:06 pm

    I’m a Georgia Cracker, but I taste terrible. And I’m probably tough and stringy as old as I am.

  50. Quartermaster
    November 3rd, 2015 @ 4:07 pm

    Anyone who lives in SC should be denounced just on general principles.