Date:  Tue, 16 Dec 1997 03:14:49 EST
From:  Bapopik <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Sand Nigger

   Sorry about the title, but that's what this posting's about.
   I was at NYU recently, and I saw these protesters. This is from today's
New York Post, 16 December 1997, "Distorting D'Souza," pg. 36, col. 2:

   The protesters' major obsession was (Dinesh) D'Souza's book, "The End of
Racism," in which he attacked the prevailing liberal orthodoxy on racial
issues. These self-important race warriors didn't hesitate to brand
D'Souza--who is of Indian ancestry--a "sand nigger."

   This is certainly a wicked word, but it's not in Hugh Rawson's 1989 book.
Anne H. Soukhanov's new SPEAKING FREELY implies that the term originated
during the Gulf War. A Usenet check unfortunately shows a bunch of hits. One
poster defined "sand nigger" as "Arab."
   This is the first time I've heard it applied to someone of Indian
descent.