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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In with a 3.9UW and 33 ACT. White male, no hooks. If you're not a Gator you're gator bait![/quote]

Yeah, I wouldn’t use that phrase. It’s racist.[/quote]

Jesus Christ.[/quote]

Just another cracker who doesn’t seem to care that Blacks were fed to alligators as “gator bait”. That’s where the phrase comes from.[/quote]

“Cracker” sounds racist too. One seems accidental, the other seems intentional.[/quote]

A white person who is ignorant of that term’s origin and the declines to apologize for using it … that’s poor character. We can do better. I have never used that term and didn’t know its racist origin. Thank you for educating me! [/quote]

Gainesville resident here.  The ban on the above cheer is very controversial.  Even the African American Gator football players use the cheer.  The African American football players did not agree with the ban.  No one, black or white, was aware that it was racist.

Yes. by the way, cracker is a derogatory term for poor whites.

Blacks were never fed to alligators as "gator bait."  The origin of the racism comes from postcards from over 100 years ago that pictured black infants on beaches with alligators.

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