And since I am on a roll, I am tired of all the faux outrage around the word cracker. Cracker does not now, nor has it EVER carried the same connotation as the word nigger. There were no cracker only drinking fountains. Crackers were not required to eat behind the diner or restaurant. There were never attempts to keep the cracker from voting. Never ever ever in the history of the rural south was there a sign that said "Cracker don't let the sun set on your ass in our town." I am white, you could call me cracker, peckerwood, honkey and any other derogatory name for white people and I would not be offended, Hell my hackles wouldn't get to half mast. So white people, don't act like cracker even compares to the racism that blacks in this country suffered for 300 years.