"I'm just saying. Do I look like a cracker to you?" Link asked Seaweed, shaking his head. "Am I a Nabisco snack, or something?"

Seaweed rolled his eyes and leaned against the bleachers, sighing. "Not this again."

"Yes, this again," Link exclaimed, crossing his arms across his chest. When he'd shown up to the WYZT studio a couple of minutes ago, Seaweed had greeted with him a hearty: 'Hey, cracker boy!' Link could not, for the life of him, figure out why the hell he was being called a cracker.

Seaweed looked at his friend in annoyance. "Man, it's just a phrase."

"Well, it's rubbing me the wrong way," Link said, his cheeks turning red. He kept shifting his weight from foot to foot. He felt foolish for saying this to Seaweed; he knew his friend meant no offense when he called him 'Cracker Boy', but it got on his nerves. Some of the other black guys called him Cracker as an insult, not a friendly greeting.

"Would you calm down?" Seaweed furrowed his eyebrows. "What, you got ants in your pants, or something?" Seaweed's eyes widened and he lowered his voice: "You ain't got crabs, or nothin', do you?"

"No!" Link yelled, causing some of the Council members to look over at them. "I don't have crabs, what the hell?"

"Sorry," Seaweed mumbled.

Link shrugged, and shook his head. "It's okay. It's just…well, why do you call me a Cracker? I mean, what's with the whole 'Cracker' thing?"

Seaweed opened his mouth to speak, and then closed it again. "You know…I don't know. It's just what I call you."

"Yeah, well, other people are calling me Cracker, and not in a friendly way, man," Link said, shaking his head again.

"You know," IQ said, walking up to the two. Seaweed gave the boy a look of confusion.

"How long have you been there?" Seaweed asked the nerdy teen, who shrugged.

"Long enough," IQ answered. "Since you were asking, Link: the phrase 'Cracker' comes from the South. It's kind of like a label for white guys. There are a few different theories about its origin—"

"What the hell?" Seaweed interrupted. "How do you know all this stuff?"

"One theory," IQ continued. "One theory is that 'cracking corn', which is a process used to make moonshine that is used in the South, may have prompted the description of white males as 'crackers', because they 'cracked' corn. Another is that Shakespeare referred to haughty and superior, and otherwise bigoted men as 'crackers'. "

Seaweed and Link raised their eyebrows simultaneously.

"Anyways," IQ said. "Let's go stretch. Show's starting soon."

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Hope you guys enjoyed! (I asked my History teacher what 'cracker' meant, and he went into this huge tangent about it. So, that's where I got my information :)