Daughter #1: Mom, do you remember when we were little and we met that little boy whose name was Chelsea?
Daughter #2: Who the hell would name their boy ‘Chelsea’?!
Mom: Well, they might have been oriental, you guys.
Columbus, Ohio
Daughter #1: Mom, do you remember when we were little and we met that little boy whose name was Chelsea?
Daughter #2: Who the hell would name their boy ‘Chelsea’?!
Mom: Well, they might have been oriental, you guys.
Columbus, Ohio
Little Hispanic boy: I want more food.
Dad, calmly: Okay. We just have to get another plate.
Little Hispanic boy: But I want more food!
Dad: Okay! We just need to go get you another plate.
Little Hispanic boy: But I want more food!
Dad, yelling: I said ‘okay’! I just have to get you a new plate!
Little Hispanic boy, shocked: You yelled at me…
Dad: Well, I tried speaking to you like a white man, but you wouldn’t listen.
Chinese buffet
Reading, Pennsylvania
Overheard by: Hole
Asian guy to friends, with black stranger behind them: It’s like a movie — every time I look back, the black guy gets closer.
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/06/14/donovan-bailey-the-man-the-black-man-now-on-dvd/
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Drunk guy: America is the greatest! If you don’t like it, get out! Out with the riff-raff!
Friend: Stanley the Racist would be so proud of you.
Drunk guy: Man, it was great seeing Stanley the Racist again. Next time I see him, I’m going to give him a big man-hug.
E line
Boston, Massachusetts
Overheard by: elena
Young black woman #1: What’s We Own the Night about?
Young black woman #2: One guy’s a cop, and his brother is a gangster or something.
Young black woman #1: Does it have black people in it or white people?
Young black woman #2: White people.
Young black woman #1: Let’s see something else.
Columbus, Ohio
Overheard by: Jason Bourne
Guy: Nah, Ed, you can’t ever be creepy — you’re Asian.
Ed, indignantly: Dude!
Guy: I mean, unless you’re a ninja–
Passerby: –With a sword!
Algonquin Conference Center
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadia
Black party hostess: So, are there any black people in Nevada?
Drunk white hippie girl from Nevada: No! But we might as well be black, because we’re so uneducated and everything, you know? [Room, full of black professionals, explodes with laughter.]Black suit: I need a very dry martini right now.
Gregory Street
Madison, Wisconsin
White girl: I don’t know why I don’t like dark-skinned people…
White guy: Maybe because you’re a racist?
White girl, annoyed: Nooo… I just don’t like them.
http://www.overheardatmcgill.com/archives/2007/03/12/or-maybe-its-because-youre-a-racist/
Guy: Man, I have a ton of friends who are Asian. But watch out — if you touch one of them on the head, they’ll kill you.
http://eavesdropdc.blogspot.com/
Nervous white guy to friend: Are we gonna be the only white people on the train?
http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/
Overheard by: eastchestnut
