Until the race-baiting of the past couple years, I had never known the word "cracker" to mean abusive slave owner.
It was always short for "corn-cracker" which was implying that a farmer had to process his corn himself because he couldn't afford to have employees (or slaves) do it for him.
Look at how it's used, kind of synonymous with "loser."
I even googled. Here -
en.wiktionary.org
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Much like how "redneck" came about from people making fun of white farmers that had to work their own fields and got sunburned while doing it.
It's like accusing someone of flipping burgers.
Hardly some huge racist thing, but in clown world every damn thing is some kind of -ist, which is why I hang out
here.