[MatueHarton]

Chavez: Bush a political 'cadaver'

Al Jazeera English - News Hey, this guy's just warming up. Lol.

[Kokomoxcvcv]

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.

[annouhMus]

I lived in Puerto Rico for 3 years, San Diego for 4, and Yuma for 2. I guess I'm stoopid, because I was always convinced that 'gringo' was a durogatory term used to describe caucasians. Guess I was all wet all those years.

Of COURSE the term referred to caucasions (or above the border persons, but it was descriptive, and certainly NOT derogatory. (Tone of voice could make a difference tho) To a Mexican or wetback or even South american, I am a Gringo. and when I visited Mexico, I was a visiting GRINGO.

[annouhMus]

You don't see it as racist even though it is a derrogatory term used towards a race. It is a term that was "invented" to be said towards a race.

Because Wiki Says so???? People from south of the border likely started it, but as a description. Just as we call them hispanics.

[Usogwdkb]

Because Wiki Says so???? People from south of the border likely started it, but as a description. Just as we call them hispanics.

Post #3 gives the history of the word.