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Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
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Originally Posted by Nicole Dupree
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If he was black, nobody would care about this.
But if he was, and he called white people "honkies" or "crackers", they would.
Whatever happened to the word "honky"? I never was sure what it even meant. I know it was a disparaging remark against us Caucasian-Euro-Americans but, I mean, who thought of it and what is the word derived from? Did a bunch of angry black militants have a meeting one day and look for a word to offset the word "nigger"? It must have been disappointing when they called a white man "honky" for the first time and he just shrugged his shoulders and kept walking.
Here u go... 8) 8)
Honky is a corruption of hungy or hunky, a term which originated in the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago. Black workers and Hungarian workers were two of the largest ethnic groups in the Chicago meat industry. Racial and ethnic tension between the two groups led Black workers to begin calling Hungarian workers, and those perceived as Hungarian workers, hunky in retaliation for the familiar racist epithets to which black workers were subject. The corruption 'honky' emerged shortly thereafter.
Honky was later adopted as a pejorative in 1967 by black militants within SNCC seeking a rebuttal for the term nigger. They settled on a familiar word they felt was disparaging to certain Americans of European descent; hunkie meaning an American of Slavic or Hungarian descent.[1][2]