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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: takebackaustin

And thus it could mean “excellent”. “Crack” means excellent.


61 posted on 03/29/2022 11:32:12 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: mac_truck

I’ve never bothered much with the etymology or anything, but I heard it was indeed about “cracker barrels” with barrels of crackers as was originally the packaging.


62 posted on 03/29/2022 11:33:19 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: LouAvul

Sounds like typical Yankee virtue-signalling. Never heard such a thing.


63 posted on 03/29/2022 11:34:05 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: the OlLine Rebel

That’s an interesting take, thanks.

Etymology — you start with multiple plausible origin stories, and sometimes on further investigation, more than one are correct. Which causes madness.

Following your suggestion a little, I found this: https://www.etymonline.com/word/crack

“crack” meaning “top-notch, superior, excellent, first rate” (as in a crack shot) is slang from 1793, perhaps from earlier verbal sense of “do any thing with quickness or smartness” [Johnson]

So that is almost exactly the years we were talking about the word first being documented, Revolutionary war to 1790. Your idea may be a little anachronistic if Johnson was correct that that sense came in in 1793 and that quote was written during the revolution. OTOH it may have been used in a memoir.

My favorite is the origin of “Uh-huh” (yes), and “Unh-uh” (no). Thought to be from African languages introduced to American/Southern colloquial English by African slaves.


64 posted on 03/29/2022 12:23:56 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: takebackaustin

Wow never heard any theories on grunts like “uh huh”. LOL

The quotation noted actually said cracker, not crack, so it could indeed have been either a progenitor of the term “crack” or a version of it, in this case noun vs adjective. That is, if it was written during the war.


65 posted on 03/29/2022 12:53:18 PM 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: where's_the_Outrage?

That sounds too stupid to be true. Maybe they should focus on the four black teens that dragged a white woman to death after stealing a car.


66 posted on 03/29/2022 1:14:13 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I could not make out some of what he said, did he actually say he wanted to hang someone?


67 posted on 03/29/2022 1:18:36 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: mac_truck

That term has been around quite awhile


68 posted on 03/29/2022 1:19:41 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: seowulf; Flint

“If I remember right, it’s mostly from the Florida panhandle.”

IIRC I’ve seen that region referred to as “West Florida” and “The Old Southwest”.

Some of the earliest American cowboy country, in the late 1700s. Cattle were set loose to graze in what may have been pine forest then.


69 posted on 03/29/2022 1:58:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: mac_truck

“my understanding is that Florida Cracker also refers to an architectural style”

Maybe this:

https://www.pinterest.com/clairemccluskey/florida-cracker-house/


70 posted on 03/29/2022 2:00:45 PM PDT by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I must have misinterpreted that annotation, Dr. Johnson died in 1784, so that was referring to the earlier sense of sharp (adj), not the later sense and date.


71 posted on 03/29/2022 3:09:11 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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