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Old 11-30-05, 11:59 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by leady
ive never once heard cracker or honky used over here, but personally i cant see how cracker and honkey relates to our color and offending us???.... i mean, monkey/ape, majority of black people have nose's shaped like serina, and tend to have fuller lips, and then there is the skin color, thats where the words started being used to offend, n i feel too many people are ignorant to that fact, but cracker e.t.c..... how is that offensive to white people???? to me its just a slang word thats faster and easier to say than white person




EXACTLY, because as far as I'm concerned, APE is not a synonym for Ugly. What it was, was a disrespect of Black/African features--i.e., broad/flat noses, full lips, and dark skin. I don't see Red Bull calling an "ugly" white person an APE. It's disrespectful, PERIOD.
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