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‘I’m White, I’m Automatically Better Than You’: Racist Man Threatens To Lynch Black Popeye’s Employees In Video
Your Tango ^ | Mar 28, 2022 | Dan O'Reilly

Posted on 03/29/2022 5:37:10 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

There 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......

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; fakenews; falseflag; florida; floridaman; popeyes; racism; racist; thisisbs
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To: mac_truck

In this day and age, it is mainly used by black people as a derogatory term for whites they have a problem with. I see it as no different than the ‘word’ they complain about.


41 posted on 03/29/2022 7:35:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai; Tupelo

What’s the big deal? Obama said “the N word” on national TV. Anybody should be able to say it since then.


42 posted on 03/29/2022 7:39:04 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Flint

Now that you mention it, that is what I remember. Truth is, I never really thought about it much because the term never meant anything to me. I find the word about as offensive as “saltine”, which is my preferred type of cracker.


43 posted on 03/29/2022 8:13:49 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Pelham
Interesting. Too bad that truth is disregarded among today's liberal, otherwise it could be a valuable book. But liberals only tolerate that "truth" that reinforces what they've already decided to believe.

That becomes "brainwashing."

44 posted on 03/29/2022 8:17:17 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Flint
I am a 4th generation Florida Cracker.

Good on you...my understanding is that Florida Cracker also refers to an architectural style that was popular in Florida back in the day. One of the distinct features is a sloped metal roof iirc. My aunt who moved to Florida after WW2 knew all these things, but she has since passed away.

45 posted on 03/29/2022 8:19:55 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Tupelo

Went to a Popeye’s near Sacramento. Actually surprised to see all the employees were black. I had no idea.

They were polite, professional and quick.

No problem.

Good chicken.


46 posted on 03/29/2022 8:23:28 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I should point out that it is noteworthy that Colton Norsworthy is not a name that can be lost on the internet.

There are probably not a whole lot of Floridians named Colton Norsworthy and that is noteworthy if your name is Norsworthy and trying to find a job that is noteworthy.


47 posted on 03/29/2022 8:24:07 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: bert

It goes back further.

“The first reference to a cracker in Florida appears in 1790, when the Spanish governor of East Florida wrote that the crackers in Florida were wild, nomadic and would not heed government authority.”

Gradually it became a turn applied to Florida cow hunters who cracked whips when rounding up the pretty much wild free roaming cattle in Florida.


48 posted on 03/29/2022 8:26:37 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Flint

I took a linguistics course once on Engish dialects, and Cracker was one of them. If I remember right, it’s mostly from the Florida panhandle.


49 posted on 03/29/2022 8:45:17 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Steely Tom

Indeed when the race card is down for the count induce CPR.

Racism is one of the biggest money producers the left has.


50 posted on 03/29/2022 8:49:54 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: subterfuge

Eh? Wasn’t talking about that.


51 posted on 03/29/2022 8:55:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lastchance

Coincidentally, the American Rifleman, April 22, has an article “Cavalry Arms of the American Revolution with a slightly earlier reference ( but not Florida, rather the Colonial South):

“With rifles and sabres, these men were more on the order of what Europeans would term dragoons.

A British officer aptly described the mounted Patriot militia in the South, ‘… The crackers and militia in those parts of America are all mounted on horse-back … . When they chuse to fight, they dismount, and fasten their horses to the fences and rails; but if not very confident in the superiority of their numbers, they remain on horseback, give their fire, and retreat, which renders it useless to attack them without cavalry … . ‘ “


52 posted on 03/29/2022 8:57:40 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: mac_truck

My Mom’s uncle who lived in Florida many moons ago called himself a Florida “Cracker”.


53 posted on 03/29/2022 9:02:06 AM PDT by dforest
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To: the OlLine Rebel
That “conversation” is NEVER a civil discussion. It’s always a self-righteous lecture at best, and a yell-over shout fest at worst.

Exactly. This ramming race crap down people’s throats is causing resentment and isn’t solving any problems.

The Democrats have deliberately destroyed all of the progress that had been made in race relations in the decades following the civil rights movement in the 60s.

54 posted on 03/29/2022 9:07:19 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Who cares. There are endless black commentators, professors, politicians, and other assorted racists who spout “black supremacy “ all day everyday.


55 posted on 03/29/2022 9:15:40 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: takebackaustin

Thanks for that very interesting excerpt.


56 posted on 03/29/2022 9:33:46 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Not sure what he was upset about since being called a “cracker” in Florida is not an insult at all. A cracker is what native born Floridians are called, after Florida cowboys, who herded and drove their cattle through the palmettos with whips. It has nothing to do with race.


57 posted on 03/29/2022 9:42:44 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: LouAvul

It has to do with cracking a whip, but nothing to do with slavery. It has to do with herding cattle, and a very hardy breed of horse known as cracker horses were used. There were cowboys in Florida long before there were cowboys out west, and in Florida the noise of a whip was how cattle were driven through our thick undergrowth. At one point, cattle were raised in Florida, then driven west along the same path as would one day be known as US highway 10, to be fattened up elsewhere, such as in Texas.


58 posted on 03/29/2022 9:51:24 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Williams

Indeed. It’s become the ONLY word that is taboo, the only thing that can put you in jail or righteously murdered.

Which proves again all they care about it words. Never actions. Libs care much more about some white saying THAT WORD than they care about their criminal record, or that they burned and looted endlessly.


59 posted on 03/29/2022 11:20:45 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: wardaddy

“Spanish or creole word negro or negra”

It’s my theory that it’s an uneducated lazy bastardization of “negro”. Not much more.

Think how many times people (especially from certain regions) say a word but leave something off or let it drift...e.g., Englishmen often lazily turn an ending “a” into “er”. New Englanders unable to say “r” so leave it off, e.g., “cah” or “lawyah”.


60 posted on 03/29/2022 11:26:18 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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