Viral Video Shows Man’s N-Word Rant Toward Black Stranger Cut Off by Something Crawling Up His Wall

A roast of a racist on a video chat platform was more like a raging dumpster fire.

Two men, one Black and one white, recently hopped onto OmeTV, a social networking site that connects random strangers online.

After the unidentified white man began dropping the N-word right and left, the two traded barbs.

White man’s racist rant gets interrupted when a cockroach crawls up his wall. (Photo: X/ @SeeRacists)

The language was filthy—but so were the white man’s appearance and home.

Just as he boasted about his white skin, a cockroach crawled across the wall behind him.

The video’s caption, posted to X on October 18, read in part, “He’s worried about someone else’s skin color while a roach is living rent-free in his room.”

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The Black man responded to the racist insults with some creative digs of his own, including “snaggle-tooth f**king squirrel monkey,” and “greasy, grease-bomb gerbil-looking n**ger.”

At one point, the Black man said, “You look like you’ve been rolling around under the couch… You look crazy as hell. You look like you’d bite me if I reached to pet you.”

The white man’s response? “But you still a n**ger… I’m still better than you because I got white skin.” As he chugged beer, he lifted his hand and said, “Look at my skin,” only to show off his filthy hands.

A banner flashed across the video: “Literal dirt on his hands.”

As if on cue, a cockroach scurried behind him.

“You got a roach on your wall,” the Black man laughed.

But their argument was no laughing matter. The video chat clip is making the rounds online, shocking viewers with its unabashed racism.

The roast continued on X, with more than 700 replies from commenters joining the free-for-all.

One commenter offered a sweeping take on the app’s users: “And that sums up the majority of these racist white people on this app!”

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