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Is That Why Bird Shit Is White?

Art student to friend: Did you know that our shit would be white if we didn’t have bile to mix with it?
Black security guard, raising fist: Black power!

–School of Visual Arts

Overheard by: dobby

  • Posted on June 19, 2008
  • Black People, College, Colors, Default, Friends, Manhattan, Poop, Questions, Race, Security Guards, Students, Weirdness
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