Dont take this offensively anyone

Question

how come black guys get ofended when we call them

n i g g e r s (theres spaces because it wont let me spell the word

yet white guys dont gice a **** when there called crackers or yankees

i didnt mean any offense but its kinda buggin me

Answer 1

Because people referred to african americans as

n i g  g e r s  and they were known as that through the days in which they were taken as slaves. And well white people wouldn't get offended cause why would they? cracker? cracker makes me think of food. besides they can't say their not white.

Answer 2

Google up the term "DNS" until you reach something interesting.  I'll give you a hint:  you already named off one of the words.

Answer 3

because white people were never slaves.

Answer 4

Well maybe because those terms don't quite have the sam eimpact as the other word does.

The better question is why do SOME African Americans get offended when non-African Americans call them the n-word, but use it like an everyday word when they are with other African Americans. =/

Answer 5

Because that's a very offensive term.

Answer 6

It is an extremely derogatory term that dates back to slavery times. When you call african-americans that, you are bringing up the fact that you used them as slaves, and are thus inferring you are better than them. Which makes you racist.

Obviously, this is not the connotation that comes from cracker or yankee.

Answer 7

All of it is not nice, and we know it, so why do we use those words? To hurt people different than us.  And  Theperso,        white people certainly were slaves. Have you ever heard about the Jews in Egypt, the Romans kept white and black slaves, they did not discriminate between race.

Answer 8

Some white people do get offended when confronted with white racial slurs.  Most people will get offended when confronted with a racial slur that applies to them.

The reason that a lot of white people might not get upset about it is because they have not endured decades of oppression from other races.  When someone calls a white person a honky or a cracker, they can just be like "Yeah whatever." but if someone calls a black person the n word or a Chinese person the c word, of course they're going to get upset.

Answer 9

Because there isn't the same historical significance behind the word. A N-i-g-g-e-r is a word that was used as a derogatory term for slaves. Which comes from the term Negroe which is spanish for black ( i think something along those lines) so there is a long history of it being used specifically as a derogatory term

Cracker is a term used against white men and women, and really... doesn't mean a whole lot. It means your plain. Not a whole lot of venom behind it. And a yankee is an american like a yank. Brits get mad if you dub them Yankees. or a yank.  

Answer 10

I asked a similar question how come Americans are Yanks and English are Brits but Pakistanis take offence at being called Pakis?

The answer because unless your black or asian your classed as being a racist!

In my opinion there is no one more racist than black people!

Answer 11

i don't get it either.  

Answer 12

Because society has taught them to act so.

Answer 13

N-i-g-g-e-r-s comes from the word "N-e-g-r-o" meaning Black in Spanish. In my country, we call black people as "N-e-g-r-o/es" but we don't mean anything to offend them.