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**Kokomoxcvcv** · 10-03-2007, 04:23 PM

As a white person, I'm not really offended when a black person calls me cracker or a latino person calls me a gringo. I think it's because white people have always been the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Having said that, gringo and cracker and any other "nickname" for white people ARE racist names just like nigger or spic. The difference is, white people don't feel put down by these names. White people haven't been put down by other races. The words are racist, but they don't have the same power as words that white people use against other races.

IMHO.

10-03-2007, 04:23 PM	#22
Kokomoxcvcv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 506 Senior Member	As a white person, I'm not really offended when a black person calls me cracker or a latino person calls me a gringo. I think it's because white people have always been the oppressor and never the oppressed. Having said that, gringo and cracker and any other "nickname" for white people ARE racist names just like nigger or spic. The difference is, white people don't feel put down by these names. White people haven't been put down by other races. The words are racist, but they don't have the same power as words that white people use against other races. IMHO.
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