Tall goth girl to rotund, geeky friend: She’s a fat black goth! Kinda like if you, me, and Bill Cosby joined forces.
Denver, Colorado
Tall goth girl to rotund, geeky friend: She’s a fat black goth! Kinda like if you, me, and Bill Cosby joined forces.
Denver, Colorado
High school girl #1: I hate how everyone judges you based on your grades.
High school girl #2: What?
High school girl #3: Well, okay. By “everyone,” I mean Asians.
Walter Johnson High School
Maryland
American tourist #1: What's your background?
Tourist guide: Aboriginal.
American tourist #1: No, as in “where were you born?”
Tourist guide: Here, in Australia.
American tourist #1: But you're black!
Tourist guide: Yes… I'm aboriginal.
American tourist #1: But I thought you guys were all extinct! Are you, like, the last one?
American tourist #2: Jay, shut up. It's idiots like you that make us look stupid. He's messing with you, there are no aboriginals.
Adelaide, Australia
Professor: Are there any Buddhists in this class? Anyone in here a Buddhist? Huh? All these Asians and no Buddhists?!
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Skinny white kid: Who doesn’t love black chicks with fat asses?
Political Theory class, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Girl: It's like Everybody Loves Raymond, but with white people.
Columbia, Maryland
Overheard by: Liz
Little kid: Mommy, why are there so many Asians here?
http://overheardinphilly.blogspot.com/2007/05/quiet-they-might-make-you-read-math.html
Overheard by: renee
White basketball coach at end of middle school game: Wait… Wait! Don’t let any black people leave. I need to take their picture!
Ohio
Overheard by: A rare sighting
Policewoman: I seen you beggin'. You don't know that guy, but he gave you money.
Hobo: Sweetness, sweetness, listen. That's my brother.
Policewoman: You have a white brother?
Hobo: My brother in Christ.
Urbana, Illinois
