A couple of years ago a group of us were sorting stuff for a church jumble sale and a golliwog appeared.
There were two Caribbean ladies present.One thought it was a harmless toy and commented,”hey,it looks like me !”
The other lady was absolutely outraged and treated us to a ten minute lecture on how it was an evil symbol of racial oppression,had no place in modern society,such things should be banned completely,how would we like seeing a white equivalent,and so on ad nauseam.
Two completely opposite views from ladies with very similar backgrounds.
No prizes for guessing whose opinion was received more sympathetically.It’s a harmless child’s toy and children don’t even notice racial differences until adults teach them to.Years ago my daughter wanted to identify a little girl at playgroup and the best she could come up with was,”She wears a blue dress”.She had no idea at all that the girl was Asian.
Incidentally,I was watching an antiques expert valuing an old golliwog toy recently,and she referred to it only as a “golly”.What a load of round things.
Is there anyone on here who truly is offended by golliwogs,sorry,gollies ?
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