The B*tch up and Called Me a Cracker !
Published by Duncan in the blog Duncan's Blog. Views: 453
offensive
—used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a poor, white, usually Southern person
sometimes offensive : a native or resident of Florida or Georgia
—used as a nickname
I remember being at work and having to deliver a document to one of the clinicians. She was lounging with two of her colleagues. The ringleader of the three was talking about the executive director and called him a back woods cracker as I entered the room. She held her fingers to her lips and said, "Ooops!"
"Don't worry, Miss Brown," I told her. "I'm not offended by the word. I'm a damn Yankee!"
There was another time in my life when I was volunteering for the AIDS Project Los Angeles and my client was a Mexican man from Chihuahua. I don't think I had ever met anyone from that state before or since. Anyway, I would see him about three times a week. Then one time out of nowhere, he stopped answering my calls or returning my messages. He was absent for about a month. I didn't have the kind of relationship with him that I could just drop by without his agreeing to see me. Then when the month was over he spoke to me again.
"What was that all about?" I had asked.
"My parents were here. They were staying with me."
"Oh," I said sounding a little hurt. "Are you embarrassed because I'm gay?"
"No," he said. "They have seen gay people before. I would have a hard time explaining to them how I was friends with an Anglo."
I thought I would bust a gut laughing. I've been called many different names in my life, but no one has ever called me an Anglo before.
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