‘I’m White, I’m Automatically Better Than You’: Racist Man Threatens To Lynch Black Popeye’s Employees In Video
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‘I’m White, I’m Automatically Better Than You’: Racist Man Threatens To Lynch Black Popeye’s Employees In Video
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T here are a lot of smart and important conversations that still need to be had in the United States about critical social issues like race.
One Florida man in a Popeye’s was not interested in having any of those important conversations but was more than happy to pipe off with his thoughts about race.
Specifically, his thoughts about Black people.
A racist man from Florida threatened to lynch black Popeye’s employees in a viral video.
The video in question was filmed by an employee of the Florida Popeye’s location and begins shortly after some sort of argument had started between a white customer and another employee.
Warning: This video contains vulgar and offensive language and violent threats.
In the video, the customer, 32-year-old Colton Norsworthy, appears to be upset with the Popeye's employees and claims that the employee holding the camera called him a cracker.
After Norsworthy claimed that the employee called him a cracker, the manager simply asked Norsworthy “And what did you call her?”
This was, apparently, too much for Norsworthy, and he lashed out at the manager, saying. “I called her a f-cking n***** after she called me a cracker.”
The manager that was initially speaking to Norsworthy then walks out of frame after trying to deescalate the situation and seeing that Norsworthy was beyond any sort of reason.
Colton Norsworthy launched a racist tirade against the Popeye's employees.
Norsworthy continued to hurl racial slurs at the employees, primarily targeting the employee that was holding the camera and recording the tantrum.
In response to the verbal assault, the employee responded to the enraged man by repeatedly calling him a cracker and later calling him fat.
Now, while it is certainly fair to say that the employee shouldn’t have been egging the angry Norsworthy on, Norsworthy continued to escalate the situation, until the argument went from a one-sided screaming match to death threats.
Norsworthy said that he would lynch the Popeye’s employee.
Norsworthy threatened to lynch the Popeye’s employee, saying, “Imma hang you from a f-cking tree, b-tch.”
While Norsworthy continued his tirade, now including very real bodily threats, the employee boldly stood her ground, but the racist man’s criminal past makes his threats sound more and more like a real possibility.
It turns out that Norsworthy has a violent criminal past.
To, perhaps, no one’s surprise, Norsworthy has a past of violent crime.
In 2014, the racist man was charged with felony domestic battery by strangulation, obstructing justice, and tampering in felony third-degree proceedings for strangling his partner.
If there was a moral to this story, it would be to be careful when dealing with irrational strangers, you never know who has a history of actually strangling people.
Stay classy Florida man.
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Notice the American flag on his head.
The female employee is not blamelesss in this , but neither did she force him to say "I'm white, I'm automatically better than you".
That sentence is the textbook definition of racism.
Calling him a "cracker" was not claiming whites are inferior, it's actually referencing the 'position of superiority' racist Southern white slave owners enjoyed as "whip crackers" driving their slaves to work harder.
So while it might be "racist" its certainly not a term that would denote any sort of black supremacy.
So while both parties used racist language, only the white guy was openly expressing his belief in white supremacy.
I did not know that.
I had heard "cracker" was an old time insult because it meant they were so poor their main food was crackers
Not to mention expressly threating bodily harm to the employee. That dude is one sick puppy who needs to be put away to protect society.
How is this worthy of Newstalkers?
If a homeless man pushing a woman onto the train tracks is not a news story, why is this a news story?
Snappy looking cap he has on, isnt it?
No one is preventing you from giving your opinion.
I'm just giving you back your own advice.
I gave my opinion about that story and you are giving yours about this one.
One of your problems is that you think whites are equally the victims of racism as people of color are. That absurdity informs your world view and indeed many of your seeds and comments on this site.
Is that one of my problems?
You mean this is about me?
Who knew?
I understand people.
Do you understand the Coc?
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Havent given that a shitload of thought. I am not someone who gets overly concerned with process questions.
John, speaking as somebody who is of mixed heritage being Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo who grew up on the Mexican border in a small town and grew up exposed to the prejudice from the white minority that ran the town who considered me just a lowly mixed breed in their eyes. Growing up, I routinely got beat up by Mexicans for being part white and beat up by whites for being part Mexican. I don't think you can comprehend the identity crisis that resulted. Racism is not solely confined to the treatment of blacks. I doubt you understand people as much as you think you do.
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I love how she was giving it right back to him. You could see the smoke coming out of his ears. “You’re chicken’s gettin cold, cracker.”
Yeah, it’s really cool that you avoided what apparently started it all. Him getting called a cracker by a Popeye’s employee.
Ain’t it cool!
I suppose I could use the same ignorant argument populist conservatives have been using and say why is he going somewhere he isn't wanted? Maybe it's the employees deeply held belief that white people shouldn't eat fried chicken... Don't they have Chick-fli-a around there he'd be more comfortable at?
Or maybe we can chalk this up to again those involved being inconsiderate and disrespectful.
Awww, isn’t that cute - you think his reaction was warranted. Did you end up going back in to retrieve your cold chicken?
Lol ..... I’m not the one defending racist behavior. No, you’re not defending it, you’re glorifying it.
Sad, damn sad.
Another person with a double standard. White man racist behavior bad, black person racist behavior okay.
Amazing ....
Oh, that wasn’t you? My apologies, it’s just that that’s the guy I picture in my head when I read any of your comments here.
Is it your belief that this Popeyes employee randomly called a customer "cracker" ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! Yeah... keep defending the ignorant populists conservative MAGA stans.
Do you have reading comprehension problems or did you not read the whole post?
Still with the sophomoric personal attacks .... classy as usual I see.
I wasn’t there, were you? That said, folks who aren’t racist would not have dropped the cracker bomb at all .... how many times? Many.
The double standard at play here is typical of our friends on the left. Very typical unfortunately ......
I’m not the one here defending racist behavior.
You are projecting again ..... badly! And you aren’t the only one.
Your defense of him seems to be that the woman employee started it by calling him cracker. So, do you think she called a customer cracker out of the clear blue sky ? Or did he say or do something initially to provoke her first?
I dont think it is particularly believable that a restaurant employee would call him cracker out of the blue. Especially given that we can see what his opinion of black people is.
Hahahaha! If you say so.
HEY EVERYBODY - New Rule... "those involved [were] inconsiderate and disrespectful" no longer means what it's always meant in the past. You can thank Sparty for today's redefinition of "Merican English.
He looks like the kind of guy who would joke around with his white trash buddies in public about what black people name their kids, how they all use food stamps at the grocery store, how they pronounce certain words, etc. My guess is that they were purposely doing something like this around her and she probably called them crackers under her breath.
Show me where I’ve actually defended anyone actions in this situation and maybe we can have a meaningful conversation.
Otherwise all I hear from you is the usual blah, blah, blah .....
Lol .... more sophomoric nonsense from one of our friends on the left.
Keep it up .....
Sigh.....this is completely stupid and nasty.
Yep, on both sides.
Morning..hhhmm translation required please..
Cracker here means really good, great etc..eg they are a cracker person or that's a cracker of an idea ..or refers to fireworks...
Cracker here isn't really much of an insult, it's in reference to being a "whip cracker" of slaves.
Cracker has many meanings to my surprise when I googled for more information. When it comes to racial slurs, I most often associate it with meaning "white trash" because of the southern aligned society that I was raised in.
However, the history and evolution of the term cracker has evolved over hundreds of years.
I am quoting a small part of an article on NPR (which I believe might be a trusted source in the US). At the end of the article there are links to other stories about race. I'm bookmarking this link so I can read them in the future.
Intent is everything of course but cracker is basically the racist equivalent of the n word. Directed towards white folk.
It is as far away from a term of endearment as the n word is.
Ah...I sure as hell won't get as upset being called a cracker by a black person than the black person would being called the N word. I would probably laugh but if I got stupid enough to call someone the N word...I sure hope the hell my will is up to date
Perhaps that would be true if white people were enslaved then segregated, denied opportunities, lynched and abused for centuries in America, all while their black masters used denigrating terms for them like "cracker" and "boy". Then perhaps the word "cracker" would carry as much racist baggage as the "N" word. Sure, you could claim "intent" has something to do with it, but clearly the intent between a black person calling a white person "cracker" differs greatly from a white person calling a black person the "N" word. The black persons perspective calling a white person "cracker" is likely from a bitter resentment for how they and their ancestors have been treated by white people while the likely perspective from the white person calling a black person the "N" word is an expression of their deep seated prejudice and belief that black people do fit the racial stereotypes they grew up being indoctrinated in, from supposed inherent laziness to some supposed lack of intelligence.
I'll admit, neither should be used if the intent is to hurt or malign another human, but clearly there is a difference in society in regards to these words since even the seeded article prints out "cracker" but only printed "n*****" to reference the "N" word.
Definitely. Intent is everything.
The better the vocabulary, the easier it is to insult someone without ever using a "bad" word or a "racist" word. The vocabulary used shows either the vocabulary level of the offender or the offended - sometimes both. It is impossible for the offender to use words he/she doesn't know. It is ineffective to try to insult a person if the target doesn't understand they are being insulted.
I miss George Carlin at times like these.
and an outstanding example of how our language in being "framed" in today's world in ways that can be puzzling or contradictory.
Neither would I but that’s not the point. One persons insult is another persons nothing. As I noted it’s all about intent and I don’t think that a dog deemed “a little racist” hunts.
And it’s complete BS that many think it’s okay to call each other that ugly word but it verboten for a white person. Complete BS. It either an ugly word all the time or never.
It is an ugly word and with bad intent so is cracker. Racist is racist, no exceptions.
Love me some Carlin.
Saw him live in Vegas once. In person he was one dark mofo.
I became aware of Carlin through HBO specials in the 90s/00s. I watched all of them when I had HBO. I believe I really liked all of his routines on HBO.
How old was he? I seem to recall that some clips, of his last routines on youtube, were more barbed than his typical humorous, sarcastic view of human ego.
That's awesome..
Thanks for sharing.
One of my other favs is Mark Twain.
George Carlin died in 2008 at age 71.
I'm dating myself here, but I remember him on TV in the 60s and 70s.
He was a very funny guy.
I'm 65. Being raised in NW Arkansas, we were lucky to get 3 stations when the weather and antenna were just right. My adopted father controlled the television. He watched westerns and shows with scantily clad women. Carlin would not have made the cut.
I am so grateful that I now have youtube so I can watch just about anything for entertainment or education.
One joke in the live show I saw was really dark, sick really. Something about pedophilia. It was received by total silence from the audience, he waited a heartbeat and said ....... guess that joke isn’t going in the HBO special.
His TV specials were sanitized Carlin.
I’ve seen Louis CK twice in the past two years. He will have a similar legacy to Georgia Carlin. Funniest man alive right now, with some of the most quasi-controversial material.
Glad he’s done licking the wounds that were inflicted on him and back in the groove.
Never seen him live but always liked his shtick.
I'm a few years older.
Youtube is the greatest! I love it. I can listen to my favorite music, find old obscure music, find new music. I like watching news events I might have missed. I enjoy watching musicians perform covers of songs I like, so I can see the guitar chords or bass parts. Educational stuff, interviews. There is so much there. And, of course, videos with scantily clad women...
Nothing wrong with that. When I was younger, I always thought clothes were overrated. Thankfully, I usually lived somewhere rural enough to allow me to dress (or not) as I pleased.
It is probably best that I have only seen the sanitized Carlin.
I have too many personal experiences with sexual abuse, abuse victims, and sexual abusers for me to find anything comical about sexual abuse of anyone of any age, but especially children.