Girl on cell: I’m in this ethnography class. And I thought it would be, like, really easy, but there’s all this vocab — they use language in this different way that I’m not used to. So I said something, and this girl repeated it and made me look really bad. Well, we were talking about race, you know? And I just said that every race has their specialties, right? But now everyone in the class thinks I’m racist… Who knows?!
–Washington Square
Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen, moments before students stormed the stage: What did you say? I don’t speak Mexican.
–Columbia University
Bouncer talking to people in front of Webster Hall: First, I have been nothing but a gentleman in talking to you. Your racial bullshit is not needed here. Second, I am a spic, not a nigger. If you’re gonna insult me, get it right.
–11th St between 3rd & 4th Ave
Overheard by: AJ
Black crackhead: Spare some change, Miss? I’ve been asking the niggers, but they don’t give me shit.
–Broadway & 11th St
Overheard by: Miss I Am Not a Nigger
Model wannabe: You should forget about him, he’s just a racist spic.
–Steinway & Broadway, Astoria
Overheard by: Crash
Black girl: That was the most racist, sexist movie I have ever seen, and I loved it!
–Kaufman Theaters, Astoria
Overheard by: A White Guy
