Kanisha Brown Spivey alleges racial motivation behind a skeleton display at a Myrtle Beach Chipotle, yet host mocks her sensitivity as "racial anxiety" and claims Black people seek reparations over decor. While corporate denies intent and the NAACP condemns the act, the host ridicules Title VII protections, citing films like Friday to argue Black culture prioritizes lawsuits. Ultimately, the segment frames legitimate discrimination concerns as media-biased fragility designed to suppress voting, ignoring the victim's reported trauma. [Automatically generated summary]
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False Racism Claims at Chipotle00:08:26
All right, you see this fool right here?
Don't call her that.
She's claiming racism at Chipotle.
Well, watch what she claims to be racist.
Okay, she is a fool.
Now, check this out.
Brain dead people.
Hey, local Chipotle at the center of controversy.
A former employee tells us an incident happened over the weekend that she says was racially motivated.
ABC 15's Caitlin Richards joins us now.
Caitlin, this is a trending story as well right now on our website.
And that's right.
On Saturday morning, Kanisha Brown Spivey tells me she went.
Her name is Kanisha.
One of those made-up black names.
You know, black people got a problem with trying to be African.
Yeah, yeah.
If you want to be African, just choose an African name.
Don't make up your own African name.
Yeah, here we go.
To work as usual, but what she saw inside, she says, was unexpected and alarming.
We do want to warn you, some might find the image disturbing.
Kenisha Brown Spivey says she showed up for work at Chipotle on South Commons Drive in the surfside area and saw a skeleton hanging from its neck inside the restaurant.
First of all, look at the name tag, Vinny.
How many Negroes, how many Negroes you know name Vinny?
I've never came across a Negroes named Vinny.
Some Italians, yeah.
But Negroes, no.
And where's the noose?
I guess it's hanged by this court or whatever.
But if somebody's trying to be racist and make a statement, yeah, they would put a noose around this thing's neck.
But if I would think the name tag would be Tyrone, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or Maurice or something.
Something black.
Devontae.
And I would have a noose around the neck.
Right.
Right.
Exactly.
Stupid.
As a black woman walking into a building and you see something hanging from the roof, the first thing your mind goes back to is slavery.
What?
What?
You was never a slave.
You was born free.
How long ago was slavery?
When did that end?
I don't care.
How old do you think this woman is?
In the early 20s?
Yeah.
You act like she's 250 years old or something.
Actually, you're more privileged.
You probably, black people are more privileged than any race in this country.
Y'all get preferential treatment.
You know what she's doing?
She's trying to get paid.
She's trying to get paid.
She's trying to get her reparations a little early.
That's what she's doing.
She's plotting.
She's scheming.
This is just a ploy to get some money out of the man.
That's what she's doing.
Currently in this country, blacks, you're the most privileged blacks that's ever lived in this country.
Yeah, very privileged.
They even give you jobs because you're black.
What a travesty.
Hey, we had a vice president just because she's supposedly black.
Yeah, Supreme Court Justice.
Because she's black.
The first thing your mind goes back to is slavery.
And the fact that it's still happening today in 2026, people are still being hung.
And it's supposed to be taken as a joke.
It's not f ⁇ .
Wait, man, who was hung?
That was a mannequin, right?
Nobody was actually hung.
She said people are still being hung in this country.
Where?
I mean, if that was happening, that would be front page news.
Yeah, CNN, MSN now.
They'd be all over that stuff.
Yeah, people are getting hung, but it's self-inflicted.
They're committing suicide.
Funny.
Brown Spivey says she faults the worker who hung it.
Also, management for not taking accountability.
And all I got was a text message, are you done?
That's all I got.
You know, she a problem.
Oh, yeah, she a problem.
Like her mannerisms and everything.
She a problem at work.
You know how she got a job?
Management, oh man, she's a black woman.
I'm gonna go and give her a shot.
And look what happened.
Oh, hell broke loose.
No, are you okay?
What happened?
Do you want to talk about it?
We reached out to Chipotle's corporate office asking about this incident.
We received a statement saying, in part, quote, the employees involved said that there was no racial motivation or intents behind the display referenced in the social media post.
Adding, we understand how it may have been perceived and we take these concerns very seriously.
Tiffany Andrews, the president of the Myrtle Beach branch of NAACP, says this type of behavior is not okay.
At some point in time, enough is enough.
And what I will have to say to the CEO of Chipotle is: what you perceive as being offensive may not be what I perceive as being offensive.
Man, black people are so fragile now.
Yeah, black fragility is what it is.
You have to second guess everything you do because you have to determine: hey, this is what I'm hanging here.
What I'm this decor I'm putting on the wall is totally harmless.
But would this offend a black person?
They have to ask themselves that question.
They got the NAACP on in on this.
You know what that stands for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Like, if you call somebody colored, yeah, today, oh, that's racist.
But they still walk around with this organization, this organization right here, she's a part of.
They still have that, it's that title of their organization.
Yeah.
Check this out.
Therefore, we must have sensitivity training to make sure we're all in tandem.
Hold up, We need sensitivity training.
The only people that need sensitivity training is black folks.
Y'all need sensitivity training.
Y'all, everybody else is just fine.
It's you people.
You people are the problem.
Sensitivity training?
I could see if I walked in and came seriously and it was on a noose.
It was a black guy and he had dreads hanging.
They had Tyrone.
It had Tyrone name tag and, you know, and was wearing a Wu-Tang shirt and they had like a swastika or something.
I totally get that, but it was Vinny.
Yeah.
It was Benny, not Leroy.
And plus, besides when you're trying to put something up like that, that type of decor, sometimes you hang it from the ceiling.
Yeah.
Did they have a noose around his neck or what?
Well, it's just you can't even see it.
It's like that rope.
It's like a black, yeah, rope or whatever it is.
You can't even see it.
I've said this plenty of times.
I think black people suffer from racial anxiety.
They see racism when it's not there.
It's just a figment of their imagination.
They see it, but it's not really there.
It's anxiety.
Their perception of reality is not reality at all.
I think black people need some perception training and some sensitivity training.
But they're going to say to white employees, they need sensitivity training.
Why would I hire a black woman if I want to hang some up that might be construed as racist?
Man.
What is offensive and what's not?
South Carolina and Wyoming are the only two states without any hate crime laws.
I asked if South Carolina had a hate crime law in place, would this situation have happened?
I don't necessarily think less of these things would happen.
However, there's more of a consequence that will come with it.
Browns Bivey says, Raising three boys, the incident, as three boys.
Yeah.
What is that at?
Hey, Kevin, see a crime?
It's a deeper meaning for her.
It's not, it does not mean anything important for you to stand up for what you believe in and to stand up for yourself.
Andrew says it's important people are aware of their protection under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits bias and punishment based on race, color, religion, and sex.
In studio, Caitlin Richards, ABC 15 News.
Kaylin, thank you.
Andrews tells us every workplace should have a company handbook outlining what's supposed to happen when there is harassment or discrimination in the workplace, which is vital for next steps in situations like these.
Okay, that's harassment?
I don't think nobody was trying to harass anybody.
It was harmless.
Black fragility.
She's too fragile.
A lot of black people are too fragile to deal with society.
It's probably an all-in act.
Yeah, I'm thinking.
The Incentive to Sue00:01:27
She's trying to get some money.
Trying to get some money.
Trying to get paid.
I don't know.
When I was growing up in the black community, everybody was looking for a lawsuit.
You remember that?
Yeah.
They even put in a lot of black movies, jokes about that.
Like there was a movie Friday.
The dude fell down in a grocery store.
He said, I broke my back and my neck, and I settled for $15, something to that effect.
It's so entrenched in our culture that black people actually made jokes about it.
Yeah.
Always looking for a lawsuit.
Yeah.
They're looking to get paid.
Pull the race car and sue somebody for racism.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what this all, this is what this is all about.
Yeah.
Trying to get paid.
That's all it is.
And I think this news agency is trolling them.
I know they talking trash behind this black girl's back in the NAACP.
I said, man, I can't believe they said that was racism.
The dude's name is Vinny.
You can't even, you don't even know if it's a black person.
I mean, it's just a gauntlet.
It's just hanging from the back of its back from the ceiling.
Yeah, yeah.
Just the thing.
I think the, I don't know what that news agency's motive is, but I mean, if they were totally against her, they would have called out the name tag.
Right.
You know, Vinny.
Yeah.
They didn't call that out.
So they was on her side.
It's Myrtle Beach.
That's a blue area.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They have an incentive to be on her side.
Yeah.
Because they want black people thinking a certain way.
So long as black people think like this, they will vote Democrat.