Race

Co-worker #1: So, do you get Columbus Day off from school?
Co-worker #2: No, we only get holidays for black people and Jesus.

6101 Broadway Street
San Antonio, Texas

Overheard by: Salena Arledge

Male office drone: So my friend says that instead of trying to stop human nature, we should focus our innate racism at a race that doesn't exist anymore. Like the Tuscans.
Female office drone, barely paying attention: Sounds like a cracker.

Norristown, Pennsylvania

Boss: Why do you have a new BlackBerry?
Salesperson: Because I am awesome.
Boss: You don't even know how to use it, do you?
Salesperson: Uh… No.

Augusta, Georgia

Secretary : The guys who clean my yard never take any off my plants, because I threaten them, I say ‘If you touch anything, I’ll kill you!’ And they never touch anything since then. Because they’re Haitians, and you know, Haitians scare easy.

1252 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, Florida

Co-worker #1: Did you know Tony in the German office is Oriental?
Co-worker #2: Asian.
Co-worker #1: What about Asians?
Co-worker #2: You don’t say “Oriental”…you say “Asian.”
Co-worker #1: Oh, that is so PC. Oriental is fine. I had an Oriental friend once and she didn’t mind it.

93 Worcester Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts

Overheard by: Scaught

White marketing manager to black marketing manager wearing safari print tribal dress: I loved you in Coming to America.

Denver, Colorado

Employee #1: I hear they have a lot of them in new Mexico.
Employee #2: What, drag queens?
Employee #1: No, native Americans.
Employee #2: Oh.
Employee #1: Well, they could have a lot of drag queens there too, I don't really know…

Gainesville, Florida

Coworker #1: I went to the black rodeo.
Coworker #2: Black rodeo?
Coworker #1: Yeah, all the cowboys are black.
Coworker #2: Ohhhhh…where was that?
Coworker #1: Alabama. They had mini cows.
Coworker #3: I think those are baby cows…calves.
Coworker #1: I thought they were premature big cows.
Coworker #3: What the fuck is a premature big cow?

Newspaper
Dallas, Texas

Waitress: My boyfriend is half Italian but he is mostly white.

Cucamonga, California

Overheard by: halfbreed

Black woman, before an interview: I’ll let you do the talkin’, ’cause you’re a code cracker.
White dude: … What?!
Black woman: You know — you can read between the lines and figure out if she’s telling the truth.
White dude: I thought you just called me a ‘cold crackah’!

SW Grapevine Parkway
Grapevine, Texas

Overheard by: The real cold cracker