Word: rastus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Central Weakness. In the opinion of many Georgians, the Journal and the Constitution are a disgrace to all red-blooded white Southerners. Roy V. Harris, a rallier of the state's racists, usually refers to the Constitution's publisher as "Rastus" Ralph McGill. While in office, Congressman Davis frequently castigated the papers from the House floor. "The mud throwing of this collection of little peewees," he said in 1961, "amounts to about as much as a flock of grassbirds*in a fence corner chattering at an eagle...
...Through humor we create a stereotype, forget after a while that the stereotype is only a stereotype and begin to take it for the real thing. So all minority groups become in the eyes of the majority the exact image the jokesters turned them into: good natured, easy going Rastus and Mandy, shrewd money loving Ikie and Abie, alcoholic and irresponsible Pat and Mike. No offense intended mind...