Race

Worker #1: What's up wit dat new chick, the one haulin' dirt, she Korean?
Worker #2: Naw, she's Native American.
Worker #1: Dat's hot yo, I wonder what Indian pussy taste like?
Worker #2: (long pause) Maize?

WTC Memorial Site
New York City, New York

Overheard by: Bob

Black co-worker: Hey, how are you doing today?
Redneck co-worker: If I were you, I wouldn’t speak to me today.
Black co-worker: Why is that? What’s wrong with you?
Redneck co-worker: I’m not too fond of you black people today. That damn Tiger Woods has won another Major.
Black co-worker: Oh, that’s all? Well, what are you going to do when we take over NASCAR?
Redneck co-worker: [Bewildered silence]

1000 Jerry St. Pe Highway
Gulf Coast, Mississippi

Overheard by: The Guy sitting next to the idiot

Client in high end salon to receptionist: I've got to ask you: how do you keep such a fabulous year-round tan?
Receptionist, giving blank stare: I'm half black.

Bellevue, Washington

Engineer #1: Congratulations, I heard you got married this week.
Engineer #2: Thanks, man. It was one of the best days of my life.
Engineer #1: Aren’t you African though? I didn’t know African people got married.

6575 The Corners Pkwy
Norcross, Georgia

Manager: It’s just that I don’t want any of those old, white computers. The only good ones are black nowadays.
Engineer: That sounds pretty racist…
Manager: Well, I don’t care.

41000 Vincenti Court
Novi, Michigan

Overheard by: Stefan Bankowski

Co-worker: One of the people I was meeting with was Ray Charles…the white, Jewish Ray Charles.

550 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

HR employee, eating jelly beans: I've segregated out the black ones because they're gross.

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Manager: Were we able to determine what the problem actually was?
Technician: No, but it sounded like something that had nothing to do with white people.

McLean, Virginia

Overheard by: Septimus

Coworker #1: I don't get why everyone's so upset about Mexicans coming into the US. I mean, they're already part of the country.
Coworker #2: Say what now?
Coworker #1: Mexico's part of the US, isn't it?
Coworker #2: Yeah, if by “part of the US” you mean a whole other friggin country.

Nursing Home
Pennsylvania

Overheard by: ah the future of america

Asian office girl: Yeah, my wedding is going to be a Western wedding and not a traditional Chinese one.
Blonde office girl: (silent and perplexed)
Asian office girl, noticing the confusion: Like, Western culturally. Not like cowboy-and-Indians Western, you know.
Blonde office girl: Ohhhh, okay! I was totally gonna say that would be a really weird wedding!

Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: surrounded by idiots