White Guy Who 'Settled' Brooklyn: 'My Street Cred, Especially in the Black Community, Is Huge'

The unidentified white jogger guy whose outburst in Downtown Brooklyn against another, newer-to-the-neighborhood white guy went viral last week has attempted to clear up his comments in an exclusive interview with Gothamist.

“You’re new to this neighborhood,” the jogger says in the video. ”I’ve been in this neighborhood. The only reason white people like you are living here is because I settled this f------ neighborhood for you!

Although the Fort Greene resident told Gothamist he was too ashamed to watch the video back, he tried to explain where some of his white-guy anger was coming from.

“I was abused as a kid,” he said. “My mom had all these crazy boyfriends. Some of them were super cool. One guy taught me how to do pottery. Another guy taught me how to do magic. One guy beat me up. I decided then I would never let a guy come at me with their fists.”

In the video, the jogger yells at white guy No. 2 after the man’s wife allegedly hits the jogger with her stroller.

“You push your stroller into people?” the jogger says. “Your baby could get hurt.”

“I fight babies like you,” he says. ”Baby.”

Speaking with Gothamist, the jogger claimed that white guy No. 2 — aka, ”golf shirt and Coke bottle glasses” — confronted him after he made a sarcastic comment to his wife.

“Oh you live in the Bell Tower, you’re walking around in your polo shirt, you’re pushing your stroller into me and you don’t say ‘excuse me,’” he said. “You must be some kind of transplanted white trash. They don’t think they are because they’ve got money, but they act like it, you know?”

Our jogger, by contrast, is a born-and-raised New Yorker whose blood, by his own telling, is mixed with the cement in Brooklyn’s sidewalks.

“My street cred, especially in the black community, in this city, is huge,” he told Gothamist. “I grew up on the West 4th Street basketball courts. I grew up multicultured. I grew up with Stonewall, I grew up on the laps of drag queens.”

The interview only gets more manic and bizarre from there. Hit up Gothamist for the rest.