Race

Coworker #1: Anyone want to go out to lunch with me? I'm so hungry.
Coworker #2: I can't, I brought Indian for lunch today.
Coworker #1: Man, I am so hungry I would eat an Indian right now.
Coworker #2: Do you think they taste like curry?
Coworker #1: What?
Coworker #2: Curry. You know, because they eat so much of it. Wouldn't it be ironic if they tasted like cow? Ganesh would not like that.
Coworker #1: I'm going to go get pizza.

Seattle, Washington

Boss: Find anything interesting?
Employee: Yeah. Mexicans are bad tippers…Sorry, that was racist. Spanish people are bad tippers.

1100 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington, DC

Overheard by: adrone

Employee: I’m tired of seeing movies that are just, like, The Adventures of White People.

Kane Hall, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Overheard by: Anonymous

White guy #1: I got fired because I am a white male!
White guy #2: I might be going out on a limb here, but could the fact that you got drunk and threw a Japanese lantern into the front door of the hotel have anything to do with it?
White guy #1: No…it's because I am white!

Irving, Texas

Coworker #1: Teach me how to say something dirty in Bulgarian.
Coworker #2: I’m not Bulgarian, I’m Bosnian.
Coworker #1: What’s the difference?
Coworker #3: Are you Mexican?
Coworker #1: Hell no!
Coworker #3: That’s the difference.

2157 Main Street
Buffalo, New York

Office rat on office-wide intercom: Could you be any more Caucasian?

Owings Mills, Maryland

Overheard by: widget

Recruit: This friend of mine is having a party Sunday. I can’t decide whether or not to go.
Coworker: Why wouldn’t you?
Recruit: It’s in honor of Martin Luther King, Junior.
Coworker: What’s wrong with that?
Recruit: Well, it’s a lingerie party.
Coworker: Oh…

13th Street and Peachtree Street
Atlanta, Georgia

Overheard by: I have a dream

Coworker #1: I would have been up all night with my shotgun.
Coworker #2: Why? The cops already had the perpetrator.
Coworker #1: Whatever, you’re just saying that because he was black… otherwise he would have just been a suspect.
Coworker #2: Ummm, the guy was white. I never said he was black. All I said was he wasn’t wearing shoes.

Pacific Drive
Lexington Park, Maryland

Overheard by: Perpetrators

White grunt #1: I’m going to the deli. You guys want anything?
Black grunt: I’ll wait till lunch.
White grunt #2: Can you spot me a cup of coffee? This time with cream and sugar?
White grunt #1: I thought you were a black man.
White grunt #2: I am a black man.
Black grunt: Shit.

New York, New York

Customer, softly: Uh, someone pooped on the floor in the ladies’ room.
Hostess: Ewww!
Manager: I’ll get a Mexican.

Restaurant, Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana

Overheard by: Shatmandu