Hodgetwins - She Accused Her Job of Racism… Then This Happened
Aired: 2026-03-26
Duration: 09:55


=== False Racism Claims at Chipotle (08:26) ===

[00:00:00]  All right, you see this fool right here?
[00:00:02]  Don't call her that.
[00:00:03]  She's claiming racism at Chipotle.
[00:00:05]  Well, watch what she claims to be racist.
[00:00:07]  Okay, she is a fool.
[00:00:08]  Now, check this out.
[00:00:10]  Brain dead people.
[00:00:13]  Hey, local Chipotle at the center of controversy.
[00:00:15]  A former employee tells us an incident happened over the weekend that she says was racially motivated.
[00:00:20]  ABC 15's Caitlin Richards joins us now.
[00:00:23]  Caitlin, this is a trending story as well right now on our website.
[00:00:27]  And that's right.
[00:00:28]  On Saturday morning, Kanisha Brown Spivey tells me she went.
[00:00:32]  Her name is Kanisha.
[00:00:37]  One of those made-up black names.
[00:00:39]  You know, black people got a problem with trying to be African.
[00:00:42]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:00:42]  If you want to be African, just choose an African name.
[00:00:44]  Don't make up your own African name.
[00:00:46]  Yeah, here we go.
[00:00:46]  To work as usual, but what she saw inside, she says, was unexpected and alarming.
[00:00:53]  We do want to warn you, some might find the image disturbing.
[00:00:56]  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.
[00:01:07]  First of all, look at the name tag, Vinny.
[00:01:11]  How many Negroes, how many Negroes you know name Vinny?
[00:01:15]  I've never came across a Negroes named Vinny.
[00:01:18]  Some Italians, yeah.
[00:01:19]  But Negroes, no.
[00:01:22]  And where's the noose?
[00:01:23]  I guess it's hanged by this court or whatever.
[00:01:26]  But if somebody's trying to be racist and make a statement, yeah, they would put a noose around this thing's neck.
[00:01:32]  But if I would think the name tag would be Tyrone, right?
[00:01:37]  Yeah.
[00:01:37]  Yeah.
[00:01:38]  Or Maurice or something.
[00:01:40]  Something black.
[00:01:41]  Devontae.
[00:01:44]  And I would have a noose around the neck.
[00:01:46]  Right.
[00:01:47]  Right.
[00:01:47]  Exactly.
[00:01:49]  Stupid.
[00:01:50]  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.
[00:01:57]  What?
[00:01:58]  What?
[00:01:58]  You was never a slave.
[00:01:59]  You was born free.
[00:02:00]  How long ago was slavery?
[00:02:01]  When did that end?
[00:02:02]  I don't care.
[00:02:05]  How old do you think this woman is?
[00:02:07]  In the early 20s?
[00:02:08]  Yeah.
[00:02:11]  You act like she's 250 years old or something.
[00:02:14]  Actually, you're more privileged.
[00:02:16]  You probably, black people are more privileged than any race in this country.
[00:02:19]  Y'all get preferential treatment.
[00:02:21]  You know what she's doing?
[00:02:23]  She's trying to get paid.
[00:02:25]  She's trying to get paid.
[00:02:26]  She's trying to get her reparations a little early.
[00:02:28]  That's what she's doing.
[00:02:30]  She's plotting.
[00:02:31]  She's scheming.
[00:02:32]  This is just a ploy to get some money out of the man.
[00:02:36]  That's what she's doing.
[00:02:38]  Currently in this country, blacks, you're the most privileged blacks that's ever lived in this country.
[00:02:44]  Yeah, very privileged.
[00:02:45]  They even give you jobs because you're black.
[00:02:51]  What a travesty.
[00:02:53]  Hey, we had a vice president just because she's supposedly black.
[00:02:57]  Yeah, Supreme Court Justice.
[00:02:59]  Because she's black.
[00:03:02]  The first thing your mind goes back to is slavery.
[00:03:05]  And the fact that it's still happening today in 2026, people are still being hung.
[00:03:10]  And it's supposed to be taken as a joke.
[00:03:12]  It's not f ⁇ .
[00:03:13]  Wait, man, who was hung?
[00:03:15]  That was a mannequin, right?
[00:03:16]  Nobody was actually hung.
[00:03:18]  She said people are still being hung in this country.
[00:03:20]  Where?
[00:03:21]  I mean, if that was happening, that would be front page news.
[00:03:24]  Yeah, CNN, MSN now.
[00:03:27]  They'd be all over that stuff.
[00:03:28]  Yeah, people are getting hung, but it's self-inflicted.
[00:03:30]  They're committing suicide.
[00:03:35]  Funny.
[00:03:35]  Brown Spivey says she faults the worker who hung it.
[00:03:38]  Also, management for not taking accountability.
[00:03:41]  And all I got was a text message, are you done?
[00:03:44]  That's all I got.
[00:03:45]  You know, she a problem.
[00:03:46]  Oh, yeah, she a problem.
[00:03:47]  Like her mannerisms and everything.
[00:03:49]  She a problem at work.
[00:03:50]  You know how she got a job?
[00:03:51]  Management, oh man, she's a black woman.
[00:03:53]  I'm gonna go and give her a shot.
[00:03:55]  And look what happened.
[00:03:56]  Oh, hell broke loose.
[00:03:58]  No, are you okay?
[00:03:59]  What happened?
[00:04:00]  Do you want to talk about it?
[00:04:02]  We reached out to Chipotle's corporate office asking about this incident.
[00:04:05]  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.
[00:04:15]  Adding, we understand how it may have been perceived and we take these concerns very seriously.
[00:04:21]  Tiffany Andrews, the president of the Myrtle Beach branch of NAACP, says this type of behavior is not okay.
[00:04:27]  At some point in time, enough is enough.
[00:04:32]  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.
[00:04:46]  Man, black people are so fragile now.
[00:04:49]  Yeah, black fragility is what it is.
[00:04:52]  You have to second guess everything you do because you have to determine: hey, this is what I'm hanging here.
[00:05:00]  What I'm this decor I'm putting on the wall is totally harmless.
[00:05:04]  But would this offend a black person?
[00:05:07]  They have to ask themselves that question.
[00:05:09]  They got the NAACP on in on this.
[00:05:12]  You know what that stands for?
[00:05:14]  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
[00:05:18]  Like, if you call somebody colored, yeah, today, oh, that's racist.
[00:05:21]  But they still walk around with this organization, this organization right here, she's a part of.
[00:05:26]  They still have that, it's that title of their organization.
[00:05:29]  Yeah.
[00:05:30]  Check this out.
[00:05:31]  Therefore, we must have sensitivity training to make sure we're all in tandem.
[00:05:36]  Hold up, We need sensitivity training.
[00:05:40]  The only people that need sensitivity training is black folks.
[00:05:44]  Y'all need sensitivity training.
[00:05:45]  Y'all, everybody else is just fine.
[00:05:47]  It's you people.
[00:05:49]  You people are the problem.
[00:05:50]  Sensitivity training?
[00:05:52]  I could see if I walked in and came seriously and it was on a noose.
[00:05:56]  It was a black guy and he had dreads hanging.
[00:05:58]  They had Tyrone.
[00:05:59]  It had Tyrone name tag and, you know, and was wearing a Wu-Tang shirt and they had like a swastika or something.
[00:06:05]  I totally get that, but it was Vinny.
[00:06:10]  Yeah.
[00:06:11]  It was Benny, not Leroy.
[00:06:13]  And plus, besides when you're trying to put something up like that, that type of decor, sometimes you hang it from the ceiling.
[00:06:18]  Yeah.
[00:06:19]  Did they have a noose around his neck or what?
[00:06:21]  Well, it's just you can't even see it.
[00:06:23]  It's like that rope.
[00:06:24]  It's like a black, yeah, rope or whatever it is.
[00:06:28]  You can't even see it.
[00:06:29]  I've said this plenty of times.
[00:06:30]  I think black people suffer from racial anxiety.
[00:06:34]  They see racism when it's not there.
[00:06:37]  It's just a figment of their imagination.
[00:06:39]  They see it, but it's not really there.
[00:06:42]  It's anxiety.
[00:06:42]  Their perception of reality is not reality at all.
[00:06:47]  I think black people need some perception training and some sensitivity training.
[00:06:52]  But they're going to say to white employees, they need sensitivity training.
[00:06:57]  Why would I hire a black woman if I want to hang some up that might be construed as racist?
[00:07:04]  Man.
[00:07:06]  What is offensive and what's not?
[00:07:08]  South Carolina and Wyoming are the only two states without any hate crime laws.
[00:07:14]  I asked if South Carolina had a hate crime law in place, would this situation have happened?
[00:07:19]  I don't necessarily think less of these things would happen.
[00:07:22]  However, there's more of a consequence that will come with it.
[00:07:25]  Browns Bivey says, Raising three boys, the incident, as three boys.
[00:07:30]  Yeah.
[00:07:30]  What is that at?
[00:07:31]  Hey, Kevin, see a crime?
[00:07:34]  It's a deeper meaning for her.
[00:07:35]  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.
[00:07:44]  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.
[00:07:55]  In studio, Caitlin Richards, ABC 15 News.
[00:07:58]  Kaylin, thank you.
[00:07:59]  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.
[00:08:12]  Okay, that's harassment?
[00:08:14]  I don't think nobody was trying to harass anybody.
[00:08:17]  It was harmless.
[00:08:18]  Black fragility.
[00:08:20]  She's too fragile.
[00:08:21]  A lot of black people are too fragile to deal with society.
[00:08:24]  It's probably an all-in act.
[00:08:26]  Yeah, I'm thinking.

=== The Incentive to Sue (01:27) ===

[00:08:27]  She's trying to get some money.
[00:08:28]  Trying to get some money.
[00:08:28]  Trying to get paid.
[00:08:29]  I don't know.
[00:08:30]  When I was growing up in the black community, everybody was looking for a lawsuit.
[00:08:36]  You remember that?
[00:08:37]  Yeah.
[00:08:38]  They even put in a lot of black movies, jokes about that.
[00:08:40]  Like there was a movie Friday.
[00:08:42]  The dude fell down in a grocery store.
[00:08:44]  He said, I broke my back and my neck, and I settled for $15, something to that effect.
[00:08:49]  It's so entrenched in our culture that black people actually made jokes about it.
[00:08:54]  Yeah.
[00:08:54]  Always looking for a lawsuit.
[00:08:56]  Yeah.
[00:08:56]  They're looking to get paid.
[00:08:57]  Pull the race car and sue somebody for racism.
[00:09:00]  Yeah.
[00:09:00]  Yeah.
[00:09:01]  That's what this all, this is what this is all about.
[00:09:04]  Yeah.
[00:09:04]  Trying to get paid.
[00:09:05]  That's all it is.
[00:09:06]  And I think this news agency is trolling them.
[00:09:08]  I know they talking trash behind this black girl's back in the NAACP.
[00:09:11]  I said, man, I can't believe they said that was racism.
[00:09:14]  The dude's name is Vinny.
[00:09:16]  You can't even, you don't even know if it's a black person.
[00:09:20]  I mean, it's just a gauntlet.
[00:09:21]  It's just hanging from the back of its back from the ceiling.
[00:09:25]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:09:26]  Just the thing.
[00:09:27]  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.
[00:09:36]  Right.
[00:09:36]  You know, Vinny.
[00:09:38]  Yeah.
[00:09:38]  They didn't call that out.
[00:09:39]  So they was on her side.
[00:09:42]  It's Myrtle Beach.
[00:09:43]  That's a blue area.
[00:09:44]  Yeah.
[00:09:45]  Yeah.
[00:09:46]  They have an incentive to be on her side.
[00:09:48]  Yeah.
[00:09:49]  Because they want black people thinking a certain way.
[00:09:52]  So long as black people think like this, they will vote Democrat.
[00:09:54]  Yeah.