Date:  Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:22:19 -0500

From:  Alan R Slotkin <ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU>

Subject: Re: Offensive terms



With regard to Chuck Coker's encounter and the extension of "nigger" as a

generalized hate term. I was appalled here (middle Tennessee) when our

students in the mid-70s began to refer to a contingent of Libyan students as

"sand niggers." Perhaps, once this term encompasses everyone, it will lose

all meaning and disappear.



Alan Slotkin

ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU