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5 Things You Need To Know About The Guy Who Led Racial Protests at University Of Missouri

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Remember the guy behind the chaotic University of Missouri racial protests that led to a massive shutdown last year? The one who led a seven-day hunger strike until Mizzou president and chancellor resigned, because he felt they didn’t handle campus racism properly? Yep, that one.

Since then, Jonathan Butler has become a star for the Black Lives Matter movement, going on speaking tours to college campuses across the country and represented by celebrity talent booker All American Speakers. He is widely known for his efforts with #ConcernedStudent1950 and other social justice causes.

But there is so much more that his followers do not know about him, and a HeatStreet investigation into Butler’s past uncovers some disturbing facts about the man we already thought we knew:

He steals food for sport.

In an August 2011 blog post titled “My Summer Breakfast Experience,” Butler describes how he spent 61 days stopping by at a hotel after work and “decided to indulge myself with ‘free’ breakfast items.” As he was stealing food, Butler was caught making faces in the security cameras so that hotel staff could get a good look at his face.

“Beyond even pure sport it was a [sic] adrenaline rush to find out when someone would approach me about partaking in this ‘free’ breakfast,” Butler writes. “Each passing day built up with more and more excitement and the anticipation of the hunt. The mere fact that confrontation was just around the corner drove me wild with passion.”

He dreams of getting “beat like Rodney King.”

Butler explains he wanted to get into trouble at the hotel because “ideally in my mind I wanted S.W.A.T. team members to drop from the sky tear gas to be thrown while I has [sic] attacked by 5 different german shepherds, and beat like Rodney King. But in my disappointment I was only greeted at the front by two managers.”

He bragged about how he had persistently argued with the managers when he was caught, adding, “I spent too much time in debate class and different forums to let [the female manager] punk me with her below minimum wage salary.”

He enjoys being obnoxious to women, old people, poor people, and Hispanics.

Butler’s mocking of the female hotel manager for having a low salary is just the tip of the iceberg. He had gone on to describe her as a “‘stubborn middle age crisis I’m a lonely old bag and I hate the world’ lady manager,” adding that he “chuckled to myself but just loud enough to upset the two managers (on purpose), knowing that [the other] was too frail to honestly throw anyone out.” He described her tone as “rehearsed establishment confrontation dialogue.”

After Butler had boasted of having become close with the hotel maid, Maria, the managers asked around for her name. “Not knowing Maria’s real last name the first thing that came to mind was to say, ‘Sanchez,’ he says. … So was it wrong to eat the food, probably yea. Was it wrong to give a last-name like ‘Sanchez’ to Maria the worker, yea, probably.”

In March 2011, Butler published a video with the sole purpose of addressing “the issue– a very important issue– of XX versus XY. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, male and female: which is better.” Butler and a guest in his video continued by discussing the issue of “ratchet women” who are not well-behaved.

So you’re saying, she jumps from male to male. So this would be like in the kingdom, the wild kingdom, where they’re trying to get their prey.

Getting to the point of whether this makes women inferior to men, Butler prompted his guest:

So what he’s saying is that us as men, we don’t have issues, it’s all women, obviously, because what do we do? We just eat, sleep, work, we’re the backbone. Is that what you’re saying? … You’re saying all women are trash, is that what you’re saying?

Butler concluded that men are better than woman because according to his guest, women “will lie, cheat, steal to get what they want. … That’s how females are these days. They will just—just lie,” echoed by Butler, “Just lie! Just lie! That’s dirty.”

In another blog post in July 2011, Butler wrote about his visit to a Subway sandwich store. In the blog post, he describes how he “stormed up to the counter inpatient [sic] and indecisive” and rudely gave orders to the worker behind the counter, who was “a grumpy older gentleman, about 70-75 years old,” to make his sandwich.

“And at that moment as I was charging my phone and sitting down to my fast food meal, it dawned on me that I cannot live like this,” he wrote of the worker. “I got upset at the world and in rage thoughts raced through my head of all the time I have wasted not investing my money and budgeting correctly because I cannot, I repeat cannot! End up like the older gentleman behind the counter working at Subway. I will not be old, grumpy, and working when I should be retired, relaxed and happy.”

He is the son of a millionaire.

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Butler grew up in a “prominent” family in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Eric L. and Cynthia Butler, serve as pastors for Joy of Life Ministries, and have other children along with Jonathan. Butler’s father, Eric, is an executive vice president for sales and marketing at the Union Pacific Railroad, which earned him a salary of $8.4 million in 2014, as evidenced by regulatory filings with the Security and Exchange Commission.

He likes to “mix it up” with crack.

In another video published to YouTube in 2011, Butler sang a charming song about stealing and cooking crack cocaine with his girl:

This song… it’s 9 minutes long so we make more crack,

we mix it up, mix it up baby, we mix it up, mix it up baby,

mix that crack… make that crack cocaine, oh! Then we add a little cronic, oh!

Then we make it smoke snotic, oh! Then we add a dash of parsely and a little parmesan cheese….

I gotta make the crack baby ‘cause we gotta pay bills and we got a baby on the way, girl.

By the way, its not yours. Its not mine either.

But I gotta pay child support because the law says its’ my baby.

But it’s not my kid, it’s not my kid, I take it to the streets ‘cause it’s not my kid, girl.

But I steal the crack to pay my bills and child support too.

But we still on food stamps, we still on food stamps, we still on food stamps. Oohhh ohh ohh.

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