Black girl to girlfriend: He's young, like 24, 25. And get this: I was like, “So, what else do you do?” and he goes “I make beats.” I said, “Of course you do.”
Subway
New York City, New York
Overheard by: EL
Black girl to girlfriend: He's young, like 24, 25. And get this: I was like, “So, what else do you do?” and he goes “I make beats.” I said, “Of course you do.”
Subway
New York City, New York
Overheard by: EL
Black student to white teacher: So we’re going to Sarasota to visit a college up there. Do you know the easiest way to get there?
White teacher: Sure! You can take I-75 straight up, and if you want to stop for something to eat, there’s Cracker Barrel all over the place.
Black student: Cracker Barrel? Umm, no, I don’t think so…
Design and Architecture High School
Miami, Florida
African professor: It is up to you to decide whether he was accurately and eloquently speaking BS.
Kalamazoo, Mississippi
Little boy to his mother: Why is everybody white and I’m brown?
Harvard Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ghetto woman #1: Oooh, I like them shorts.
Ghetto woman #2: I know, girl. My buttcheeks hang all out in them. I’m going to wear them to the club and find me a good man.
Wet Seal
Bradenton, Florida
Overheard by: Rae Crider
Black woman on cell: I’m telling ya, they took everything out of my breasts. Every fucking thing’s gone.
Outside Fogg Art Museum
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: Don’t want to know what.
Hobo: Damn, shorty, you lookin’ good!
Black girl, groping white boy passerby: I don’t like the dark chocolate — I need a boy I can see my reflection in!
Washington, DC
Overheard by: D.B.
Young black dude to white dude: … And don’t ever use Viagra unless you really need it. My balls were itching like crazy.
Modesto, California
Overheard by: Donster
Old black guy #1: We can eat here. It’s not too busy.
Old black guy #2: Damn! There sure ain’t no cutie pies in that motherfucker!
McDonald’s
New York
Big black lady spilling drink on herself: Oops, I done baptized myself.
Atlanta, Georgia