what does calling someone cornbread imply?
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moosefeathers — 11 years ago(August 20, 2014 06:38 AM)
It's a good comeback if some black guy ever calls you cracker. You may want to be prepared to fightdepending on who the brotha is. Not all of them are as bad-ass as they think or appear.
Cracker refers to the whip cracker.
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fire-baby — 17 years ago(January 11, 2009 06:01 PM)
i thought it had a double meaning yes, black people love cornbread, but also the guy's hair was braided in cornrows so i thought it was like, a diss you know? calling his cornrows 'cornbread'.
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mattyg83 — 16 years ago(April 07, 2009 01:11 AM)
cedric maxwell was called cornbread during his career. after some research (i thought larry bird gave it to him, but i guess he just continued it) here is the explanation on wikipedia (everything on there is true, right?)
Maxwell received the nickname "Cornbread" from his college teammate Melvin Watkins after the pair went to see the movie Cornbread, Earl and Me, in which a 12-year-old boy is traumatized by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player. Watkins thought that Maxwell looked like the title character (played by Keith Wilkes) and so began calling him "Cornbread". Since Maxwell did not like the nickname, it did not gain widespread use until Maxwell was named MVP of the NIT tournament in 1976, when, according to Watkins, "The New York media picked up on [the nickname]."
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taxidriver8989 — 12 years ago(March 07, 2014 11:47 AM)
Cornbread was the nickname of the star basketball player who murdered by the police when they mistake him for a suspect their chasing who's wearing a similar grey hoodie. Maybe he was making a referential humor to the movie because the man in custody was pleading his innocent by mistaken identity.
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pjmccrac — 14 years ago(January 31, 2012 10:03 PM)
No it's not at least not in this movie. He called him cornbread because he was black plain and simple. It is a stereotype just like that black guys love fried chicken. The entire movie is filled with little racist comments all around because thats how the original movies were.
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jnericsonx — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 08:28 PM)
Hell, I'm Irish, don't drink, only way I like potatoes is as fries or chips, and I LOVE fried chicken, and waffles provided there's Log Cabin maple syrup. Sometimes a lot of people like certain foodscause they're GOOD.
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robert-macc — 9 years ago(June 24, 2016 02:12 PM)
It's because, in the South, blacks loved cornbread. So it become sorta an insult. Not Northern black people, as they love McDonald's and rice and etc.
McDonald's would be for Northern blacks
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robocop-37224 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 05:38 PM)
So looger got called a Nazi he didn't get mad or call the news to report it.
The white guy got called a Cracker and he wasn't offended and could care less. He did call the local news station and report it. Jesus Christ I've been called names before and I could care less! My grandfather was a Cajun cook and his nickname for me was cornbread and I wasnt offended. This world we live in looks for any reason to cry Racist. I mean look at post about making James Bond Black. Then someone suggested making Shaft White, but that's being racist according to some people? How theF uck is it ok for Bond to be Black but Shaft can't be White? Where's the fairness in that??
How about if the mini series Roots gets re-made but using an all White cast??