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
Financial analyst: Guys will say, ‘Oh, Asian women are so exotic,’ like we’re a commodity. I’m not a rug!
Wall Street
New York, New York
White executive to black employee wearing brown suit: You're extra brown today.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
White guy: I come from a town of only 400.
Black girl: Whoa! That’s weird. Your town was probably started by a brother and sister or something.
White guy: Actually, there’s not a single brotha or sista in my town.
Black girl: What?
White girl: Oh, God.
Black girl: What do you mean? Is everyone in your town an only child?
White guy: No, there aren’t any brothuhs or sistuhs. You know?
Black girl: I don’t get it.
White girl: That’s probably for the best.
One Park Place
Elmira, New York
Overheard by: Shannon
White girl: Jesus, I just got called a nigger!
Filipino girl: What? On your break?
White girl: Yeah! And by a black person. Homeless. Wouldn’t give her money. I’m about as cracker as you get… total whitey. I mean, I’m wearing Banana Republic.
1900 Broadway
Oakland, California
Coworker #1: He’s Cajun.
Coworker #2: Cajun?
Coworker #1: Yeah, he is from New Orleans.
Coworker #2: What color are they?
Latham, New York
Overheard by: Parker
