my in-laws were at the grocery store and an older black lady came down the isle looking confused. she spoke up and asked, “Are there any crackers in this isle?”
my FIL spoke up and looked her dead in the eye and said, “Just the two of us.”
The lady stood there for a moment, even more confused and then busted out cackling as she walked away.
not even a few minutes later, a couple isles over, the cackling resumed with some other laughter with it.
Oh my lord, perfect! In the late 90s I had never heard the word cracker. Working Nissan Consumer Affairs, lady on the phone went off, “Well ain’t you a smartass little cracker!” Slammed the phone. (And yes, I was being a smartass.)
Pulled my black friend aside, “Hey Darren, just got called a ‘cracker’. Sounds like a racial slur, right?”
LOL my god, he took a step back:
“SHALFI you ain’t never heard that word?!”
“Um.”
“You know, like a slave master? <pantomiming a whip>”
my in-laws were at the grocery store and an older black lady came down the isle looking confused. she spoke up and asked, “Are there any crackers in this isle?”
my FIL spoke up and looked her dead in the eye and said, “Just the two of us.”
The lady stood there for a moment, even more confused and then busted out cackling as she walked away.
not even a few minutes later, a couple isles over, the cackling resumed with some other laughter with it.
racism’s powerless in the light of comedy.
Oh my lord, perfect! In the late 90s I had never heard the word cracker. Working Nissan Consumer Affairs, lady on the phone went off, “Well ain’t you a smartass little cracker!” Slammed the phone. (And yes, I was being a smartass.)
Pulled my black friend aside, “Hey Darren, just got called a ‘cracker’. Sounds like a racial slur, right?”
LOL my god, he took a step back:
“SHALFI you ain’t never heard that word?!”
“Um.”
“You know, like a slave master? <pantomiming a whip>”
“OH!”