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Honky was adopted as a pejorative in 1967 by black militants within Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) seeking a rebuttal for the term nigger.The Department of Defense stated in 1967 that National Chairman of the SNCC, H. Rap Brown, told a Black audience in Cambridge that "You should burn that school down and then go take over the honkie's school" on June 24, 1967.
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Also referred by the euphemistic contraction C-word , [ 5 ] it is commonly a pejorative , though is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a ...
Peckerwood is a term used as a racial epithet for white people, especially poor rural whites. [2] Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs.
The more people, especially white people who are desperate to claim racism, who see that this language can be used to silence Black people, the more this will happen.” Show comments Advertisement
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that it has given new names to five places that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman. The renamed sites are in ...
A separate notice was posted around 4:30 p.m. Thursday to announce that Tishomingo Public Schools homecoming activities scheduled for Friday, including the parade and football game, are canceled ...
Pejorative terms for white people (2 C, 26 P) R. Religious slurs for people (4 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Ethnic and religious slurs"
Referring to Black people as monkeys is a known racist trope dating back hundreds of years and used to justify slavery and Jim Crow law. “It was easily 10-1 counter-protesters to protesters ...