Am I a honky?

I'm obviously not one of these Four Honkies but am I a honky?

I laughed my ass off when I saw the name of this blog through my referrals. Four Honkies. Who says "honky" anymore? Was it always this funny?
If someone walked up to me and called me a honky, I'd laugh in their face. I love that word.
In this politically correct world, I guess we're not allowed to say things like that anymore but I don't think it's ever held the evil connotations that another racist slang word we-all-know-but-won't-mention holds.

But I have to know, where did the word "honky" come from and why is it used to describe a white person?
I turned to wikipedia to answer my question:

Honkey (alternately, Honky or Honkie) is a derogatory term for white people, especially in North America. The word carries far less derisive power when compared to epithets such as "n*****".

Most frequently used by African Americans, the word was made popular on the popular 1980s TV show, The Jeffersons.

"Honkey" was probably derived from Civil War era "Yankee". Possibly a combination of the Wolof word honq meaning pink or pale and hunky, an alteration of bohunk, a nineteenth-century pejorative term for an Eastern European.

Wikipedia is kind of like a rabbit hole...you keep digging farther and farther....
After "honkey" it said "See also cracker" so I fell further down to see cracker:

"White cracker," or simply "cracker," was originally a pejorative term for a white person mainly used by blacks in the Southern United States, a usage that is now (as of 2005) somewhat archaic. With the huge influx of new residents from the North, the term is now also used informally as a self-description by some white residents of Florida and Georgia ("Florida cracker" or "Georgia cracker") to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations.

As an insult, "cracker" was typically invoked against a white American, particularly (though not necessarily) lower-income, uneducated rural men in the South. The term did not have quite the extreme derisive power of the word "nigger," presumably due to the vastly lopsided social situation between southern whites and blacks when the term was common.

There are various theories about the origin of the term "cracker." The term has been traced to the 1760s, when it was used by the Earl of Dartmouth to refer to frontiersmen who were "great boasters." It may be derived from the Gaelic "craic," meaning "entertaining conversation." Other theories include references to the slavemaster term "whipcracker" or to cracking a whip over oxen when driving cotton to market (Beacon - 1887) and to the 18th century practice of cracking corn to make liquor. The term is used by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species to refer to "Virginia squatters."

Wow. I didn't know these ethic slurs had such glorious beginnings.
Hillbilly
redneck
trailer park trash
white trash
And they even have an alphabetical list of ethnic slurs!
If you're going to be a bigot, do it correctly!

So, curious now, I decided to look up the origins of the N-word we all find evil and offensive.
I'll just post this link to it because that shit is LONG. The history behind this word is unbelievable and the feelings it conjures up are powerful. It's one word. One word with so many emotions. HUGE.

So, the point of this "educational" post? I wanted to introduce you to a new addition to my blogroll:

Four Honkies

Posted by De at June 24, 2005 11:42 AM