CNN reporter lets the N word loose live on TV.

[Buick355]

LMAO at how they censored/blurred the facebook post on the screen, but they didn't censor her reading it. CNN is just trying to throw fuel on the national racism fire.

[FRANCISCO308]

Why is the racism needed at all? Do you want people attacking you and your family for being hispanic? A comment like the one you just made is beyond ignorant and low class.

true... Racism isn't needed at all but why is it okay to say cracker?

[8mpg]

Are you offended by the word cracker? Usually the ones who have a problem with that, are racist themselves.

Maybe I am... I may be racist (if you want to call it that) but I dont understand the inequality of racial slurs that are found on this board. If they dont want the "N" word, promoting "cracker" should not be acceptable. Maybe you are the racist saying Im the racist

[Rick Modena]

I dont understand the inequality of racial slurs that are found on this board. If they dont want the "N" word, promoting "cracker" should not be acceptable.

Its not that hard to understand, don't use the N-word, its not going to be tolerated on this website, the owner wants it this way and thats the way its going to be, you know this isnt a democracy and it never has been. It was not allowed in Canada and it will not be allowed here.

[Denny]

true... Racism isn't needed at all but why is it okay to say cracker?

Ask the owners of the board since they don't seem to have a problem with it.

[Denny]

Its not that hard to understand, don't use the N-word, its not going to be tolerated on this website, the owner wants it this way and thats the way its going to be, you know this isnt a democracy and it never has been. It was not allowed in Canada and it will not be allowed here.

Selective racist words... gotcha

[Rick Modena]

I don't make the rules Denny...

[mstng86]

I always preferred the word Mondays anyways.

[Vertnut]

"Cracker" doesn't bother me. I don't know why, it just never has. When I was a kid, "white trash" really bothered me. We lived in subsidized housing for a couple of years, and my sisters and I were below any other "race" there, because white folks didn't have an excuse for having to live there. It wasn't really that bad, but it's been damn near 40 years, and I haven't been back since! ;-)

[FRANCISCO308]

Ask the owners of the board since they don't seem to have a problem with it.

Someone did ask and his thread got locked. I wonder why

[Denny]

I don't make the rules Denny...

But do you believe in them?

Yes, I'm bored.

[Gtracer]

Selective racist words... gotcha

They are just playing the same game that the media is playing, selective racism. I also find it amusing that some of the mods are here acting as if we do not have a valid point...

<---Caucasian American who is offended by Cracker...and what?

I am offended by this term because other people make such a big deal about terms that are related to them. If you are going to censor some then you need to do it all. Honestly, why censor at all if there is a ban policy in place, kind of defeats the purpose if you cannot commit the offense in the first place.

Go ahead Rick, I know you are going to call me a troll, pussy, bitch or one of your many original offensive titles that you like to assign certain people.

[JC316]

What type of crackers are we talking about here? Club, Saltine, Ritz?

[Steve]

true... Racism isn't needed at all but why is it okay to say cracker?

It's not, it's just as offensive as any other racist label. But for some reason white people are expected to be more tolerant due to being still held responsible for something that happened when the first slaves were brought to this country in 1619 up to the point the 13th amendment was passed in 1865. White people as a whole are still being held responsible for 240 years of enslavement by a minority of southern states to care for their fields that was the majority of the economy when it was establishing itself.

Most of the country and the Panthers seem to forget they were enslaved and sold initially by their own people and shipped off to Europe and north America. They also forget that white people also fought for their freedom seperating families on both sides of the lines. A lot of white people died in the Civil War in order to free blacks from slavery. Yet, no credit is given there because it's not convient to their freebie arguement.

It was a white majority government that freed slaves but yet all of us are still held accountable for something that none of us were here for. Society has guilted white people to feel guilty for our history focusing on the negatives and completely forgetting the positives.

Lately, in the last few decades it's become the easy escapegoat for the ignorant and uneducated to demand what they aren't willing to go out and work for because they repress their own dreams/desires rather go out to try.

The word "cracker" is tolerated as a slur because a majority of people don't want to deal with opposite kneejerk reaction that always envitably follows. Again, it's more ignorance because the word "cracker" was a word to describe a person who lives in Georgia "out in the sticks".

Racism is stupid.

[barronj]

I always preferred the word Mondays anyways.

Everybody hates Mondays