White People

White guy: You mean, you don’t find Mexicans sexy? Sexy Mexicans?
White girl: Shhh! They can hear you!
White guy: Sssexicans?

–N train

Overheard by: curry sprinkles

Black woman: You look like Vanna White.
White girl: Really?
Black woman: Don’t she look like Vanna White?
Queer: Yes, but better.
Black woman: What do you mean better! Vanna is rich and shit. And on TV. And this bitch over here has nothing. She’s on the subway, for Christ’s sake!

–Downtown 6 train

Overheard by: JR

Upper East Side white boy #1: Yo, dude, you can't take 10-dollar bills out of an ATM!
Upper East Side white boy #2: In the South Bronx you can…

–59th & 3rd

Young black teen: Is that a North Face jacket you're wearing?
White guy: Yes, it is.
Other young black teen: Do you use it to go skiing?
White guy: Uh, yes.
Young black teen to friend: See! I told you white people use North Face jackets to go skiing!

–F Train

Girl #1, watching clean-cut white guy who is playing his clarinet for money: What’s he doing peddling on a subway?
Girl #2: Do we have to give him money because he’s white?

–Downtown C train

White woman: Do you have a middle name?
Black guy: James. James Bond.
White woman: What?
Black guy: James Bond.
White woman: You’re fired!

–Broadway & Cortlandt

Overheard by: Stephie Russell

Thug: Why you gotta be white and ignorant?
White Girl: Why you gotta be black and belligerent?

–Times Square

Overheard by: Bacon

Woman on cell: Yeah, I have to go. I’m too distracted on the phone, and I don’t trust anyone in this terminal. People are speaking Spanish behind me, if you know what I mean.

–LaGuardia

Very drunk African American guy to sober white guy: Yo, Wesley Snipes! You got any change?
Sober white guy: First of all, I'm not Wesley Snipes…

–Fulton Mall, Brooklyn

Drunk white guy: I can’t believe we used to beat you people.
Drunk black guy: Yeah, and it still happens to this day.

–1 train

Overheard by: EthanK