White mother to teen daughters after black family walks by: I’m so glad you two aren’t black! Then I’d have to put all those little beads in your hair and–well I’m just really glad.
Versailles, Kentucky
White mother to teen daughters after black family walks by: I’m so glad you two aren’t black! Then I’d have to put all those little beads in your hair and–well I’m just really glad.
Versailles, Kentucky
Lady suit on cell: Yeah, I wanna just have wild, heathen sex sometime… Well, he is black…
Panera Bread
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overheard by: kat
Student: This morning I watched Walker, Texas Ranger. They're always going around talking to Native Americans.
Professor: That's good.
Decorah, Iowa
Black girl, after seeing renaissance a cappella group rehearsing: White people be doing the most ridiculous things! No offense…
Williams College
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Overheard by: None taken
Girl #1: One time, this Colombian dude was hitting on me…
Girl #2, interrupting: What? Like from Columbia, Missouri?
Girl #1: No. This country–he was like Arab or something.
St. Louis, Missouri
Overheard by: A.
Woman: Everyone's been asking me why I didn't bring my boyfriend!
Man: Why didn't you bring him? Too many Jews?
Woodstock, New York
Overheard by: Becca
British lady: My, look at that — they’ve cast a black man as Othello…
Othello performance, Stratford Festival Theatre
Canadia
Blonde #1: Woaaaaah!
Blonde #2: What?
Blonde #1: Look! A black guy!
Blonde #2: Woaaah!
Valencia Mall, California
Overheard by: Tim
20-something girl on cell: I'm sunburnt, drunk, and Asian, so why not? Why not?
The Wildcat Lounge
Santa Barbara, California
