Light-skinned black woman: I’m just saying, I’d have been in the home and not in the fields.
Taco Mac
Atlanta, Georgia
Light-skinned black woman: I’m just saying, I’d have been in the home and not in the fields.
Taco Mac
Atlanta, Georgia
Black 20-something guy to friend: Sir Mix-a-Lot killed more black people in the 90s than heart disease and Aids combined.
Phoenix, Arizona
Overheard by: I know his pain
Thugette #1: Girl, you slept wif him?!
Thugette #2: I know — he ugly and got crabs, but I made him buy me drugs first.
Thugette #1: True dat.
Campus shuttle, Millersville University
Millersville, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Steveo
Tall black girl with fauxhawk: I don’t know why everyone doesn’t have an Asian fetish! They’re pocket sized and stunning!
New Haven, Connecticut
Ghetto chick: It’s 10 minutes to midnight — I’m ’bout to turn into a bitch.
Magic Stick
Detroit, Michigan
Overheard by: Swells
Black guy to friends: I swear, every time I start talking to a girl she gets pregnant. (pause) Fo’ real.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Overheard by: You must have been doing more than talking
Girl #1: Why does Denzel Washington with a gun freak me out?
Girl #2: Because he’s black.
Movie Theater
Colorado
30-something black woman #1: The eye is superficial.
30-something black woman #2: Yeah, like 20-year-old white guys.
Community College
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Madison
Black guy: You keep hearing about how racist Britain’s getting, it’s pretty scary.
White girlfriend: Oh, totally. I think that before anyone in that country over 40 is allowed to make a public statement they should take a test that’s like “is this quaint, or just racist?” and if they fail they shouldn’t be allowed to say anything.
Black guy: That would be an awesome game show.
Calgary
Alberta
Canadia
Black student, casually: Wait, let me get this straight: he was going to participate, but he was late, so he decided to hate, and that’s what started this debate?
Teacher, baffled: Did you just rap that at me?
Columbia College Fiction Department
Chicago, Illinois
Overheard by: flunk_punk
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