Half‐Credit for Originality

High school guy: Why they called us ‘niggers’? They wake up and say, ‘We callin ’em ‘niggers’ from now on!’ or something?
High school girl: No, idiot, ’cause they got us from the Nigger River in Africa.

–CCNY, 135th Convent Ave

Overheard by: APR 04 Alum