30-ish black woman, emphatically to self: Damn! Life ain’t nothin’ like I ever seen before.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
30-ish black woman, emphatically to self: Damn! Life ain’t nothin’ like I ever seen before.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Large black dude on cell: What?!… Okay… His sperm is alive and well and kicking.
BART
San Francisco, California
Overheard by: Nate
Black girl on cell: So, uh? So then, you explain what a cracker is to you…
Tacoma Mall, Washington
Overheard by: Troy
Black guy to white girl: I hate black people!
White girl: You hate yourself?
Black guy: No. I just hate black people. They're always late. And they tell me to wear my pants down. I made friends with a white supremacist.
White girl: But they hate you!
Black guy: He liked me…
Norman, Oklahoma
Old man with mullet to brown child in stroller: Buenos dias, niñito.
Woman pushing stroller: We’re black. He knows English.
Gallivan Center Trax Station
Salt Lake City, Utah
Large black woman on cell: Girl! I’m tellin’ you, I don’t know where I gots them warts on my feets. But they nasty! I don’t want to give them to nobody else, so I brought me some lil’ socks, you know… Them cushy foots? Not like Earl, who goes barefoot all over the city with them mushroom funguses on his toes. His toenails be like baby powder! They all crumbly and shit.
Detroit Metro Airport
Detroit, Michigan
Overheard by: Trying not to barf (and glad I wore socks)
Ghetto chick #1: If I was Kobe’s wife, I woulda left that nigga’s ass.
Ghetto chick #2: Kobe… He fine — I would hit that shit.
Ghetto chick #3: Oooh, girl, do you daddy know you nasty?!
In-N-Out Burger
Carson, California
Overheard by: Kristina & Friends
Lanky black guy making sandwiches: Man, I don’t understand them girls with long nails! How they clean they ass and they uterus?
Subway, University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
Overheard by: Don’t make my sandwich with those
Black professor to black student: So I hold you to a different standard than the white students. (to white student) Except for you. Because you're from Michigan.
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Overheard by: Overheard at Yale
Middle-aged African American bus driver: So what if she is? I wear heels and I'm 5′8″. I wear them to church.
Prim-looking Caucasian female passenger: Oh, but at least at church you're sitting down.
Middle-aged African American bus driver: Oh no, honey. I'm up singing and dancing. I go to a black church. We get our praise on.
Prim-looking Caucasian female passenger (after uncomfortable pause): That sounds fun.
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Overheard by: yes it does
