I used to hang out on mIRC, and I wanted to use the name “Raistlin,” after the Dragonlance character. It was taken, so “Rastus” popped into my head and I used that. I didn’t know at the time that it’s the name of the Cream of Wheat guy and has some racial connotations. It’s probably because of that that I get few responses to my posts. Or maybe it’s just because my posts are dumb.
Interesting. My G-pa was named Joseph Erastus Jinx. He farmed 640 acres in Mississippi. Racial connotations? Not back then, around the turn of the century (20th).