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A W Morgan s column tonight has some stuff about cigarette advertising, race, and domestic servants, in what modern day writers imagine the Fifties and Sixties to have been like. In this genuine clip from the actual Fifties, Eddie Anderson plays Rochester Van Jones. who works for Jack Benny as a domestic servant.
The Rochester character was not an enthusiastic worker, but you can hardly blame him his employer, Jack Benny, was notoriously not an enthusiastic payer. But there are few Rochesters working jobs like that today. All those jobs are done by immigrants. Many affluent white supporters of illegal immigration in the U.S. see Hispanics as genetically programmed to be their docile, cheerfully subservient maids and gardeners.