Prejudice Either Way
StoryIllustrationIn Rhodesia a white truck driver passed a group of idle natives and muttered, “They’re lazy brutes!” A few hours later he saw natives heaving two-hundred pound sacks of grain onto a truck, singing in rhythm to their work. “Savages!” he grumbled. “What do you expect?”
Gordon W. Allport.
The point
A truck driver in Rhodesia calls idle workers 'lazy brutes' and then, hours later, calls the same men 'savages' for singing rhythmically while hauling heavy sacks - proof that prejudice will find an insult for a group no matter what they actually do.
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
under a minute · 46 words
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