The Origins of Honky

"There's a lot of really faked outrage about being called cracker or honky," he says. "I think I mostly see it coming from a conservative ideology that would prefer to believe that in a colorblind society, it's as bad to have white history month than black history month." The term is believed to come from the coal mining culture where there was an influx of European whites who didn't speak English and like kind of the anti bohemian, anti check, uh, prejudice at that time.