Giving Racism the Boot?

Italian woman #1: He looks like a sand digger!
Italian woman #2: What's that, like a bug?
Italian woman #1: No, you know, a sand digger.
Italian woman #2: What's that?
Italian woman #1: A camel jockey! That's what people in Bay Ridge call them, sand diggers, because they are always shoveling sand in the desert.

--John & Pearl