Overheard@work.com:
After I put something on extraordinarily ungainly on a shelf, to be put on another shelf by the Big Black Man who does that sort of thing around here:
BBM: Thanks alot, Dave!
VFD: Anytime, BBM, happy to help!
BBM: Thanks for making my life a living hell 8 hours a day, 5 days a week!
VFD: It's only 'cause you're black.
BBM: I know it.
VFD: LOL
BBM: LOL
This place is full of people who have lived up to Martin Luther King's Dream: we make the occasional joke about stereotypes of racists in American society. At each other. Jokes that would stand a good chance of getting us a severe beating if they were cracked to a random person on 6th Street. Then we all get a good laugh, because we know it's kind of the opposite of what we really mean, when we call each other racist. In the words of Little Black Man, after a discussion which made another (more sensitive) white guy even more pale-faced than usual: "Dave, that cracker just ain't as cool as you"
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