How come the ethnic slurs for white people are pathetic?

[Mr Khan]

As Spazzy_D said, "cracker" was originally about slave foremen, and was actually really a term for Blacks to use against other Blacks, because the cracker was usually a slave himself, just given rank over the other slaves, which ventures into the murky world of intra-Black racism, since supposedly there is a good deal of resentment between lighter skinned Africans and darker skinned ones, or at least there can be.

I prefer "honky." It makes me giggle.