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Race, on a run

01.10.2011 by David Murray // 3 Comments

Out for a jog with Charlie S. Spaniel, I rounded a corner just as a guy emerged from a storefront for a smoke.

The man, an African American, jumped back.

"Damn you scared me!" he said, laughing. "A white guy scares a black guy! That's one for the books!"

I turned and laughed and kept going. I was about a block down when he built on his own spontaneous Richard Pryor routine and yelled, "And you don't even have no pit bull!"

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  1. Steve C. says

    January 10, 2011 at 8:15 am

    Isn’t that funny that you called him an “African American” and he called himself “black.”
    You should have asked him what he thought about the recent decision to take the n word out of Huck Finn.
    Steve C.

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  2. Steve C. says

    January 10, 2011 at 8:15 am

    Isn’t that funny that you called him an “African American” and he called himself “black.”
    You should have asked him what he thought about the recent decision to take the n word out of Huck Finn.
    Steve C.

    Reply
  3. Steve C. says

    January 10, 2011 at 8:15 am

    Isn’t that funny that you called him an “African American” and he called himself “black.”
    You should have asked him what he thought about the recent decision to take the n word out of Huck Finn.
    Steve C.

    Reply

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