Aborigine rage after golliwog doll goes on sale in tourist shops in Australia

[Gollyadventures]

Great to see so many positive comments supporting Golliwogs. I am on a mission to ameliorate the Golliwog. As many of you know, the golliwog originated as a regular guy, and over time the meaning of the word has been associated with negativity. Time to reverse this. If you too believe the Golliwog is absolutely wonderful visit www.gollyadventures.wordpress.com

[Golliwog]

If we start selling pieces of turd, Indians will be offended

[African Descent]

sairla wrote:

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The dolls were never intended to be used as a racist reference - I'm glad they are still legal because there is a shop nearby which has been selling them for a few years now. I know many Aboriginals and have never heard any one of them make a comment about the Golliwogs, so maybe it was a reference used in some areas and not others.

Just saw your comment. Golliwog dolls are an anti-Black caricature. They were used as a caricature of what you could see in a blackface minstrel. Blackface minstrels were used to help show people with dark skin in a negative way. For example, lazy, ignorant, and thieves. So even if they weren't intended as a racist insult, they have helped promote racist beliefs. But of course when they were first made, a lot of people who didn't have dark skin, probably thought that it was fine.

[Sdow]

Rediculous, a doll can hardly be seen as racist. If we didnt have any dark dolls, i suppose that would be racist too

[Sad Story]

Palawa wrote:

Bob's a bit of a loud mouth and doesn't speak for indigenous outside urban areas, he gets pretty hot under the collar makes things worse at times. He should be proud of his heritage and not wander down the racist track he supposedly hates
Golliwogs refer to Africans and always have, my sister had one as a kid and loved it. Other kids wanted a black doll as well, as they had white ones. Pretty funny when you thin of it, all the claims of it being racist and the kids just saw them as a bit like them. Maybe some whit supremacists should complain about the depictions of whites in dolls, Barby and Ken could be classed as pretty offensive because the demean the mentality of whites and make them look stupid for their obsession with fashion and bizarre looks.
Bob's a bit like Mansell, but is really indigenous whilst Mansell is a ring in.

Apparently Supermodel Naomi Campbell had an incident on a plane where a passenger compared her to a golliwog or called her a golliwog & she flipped out & started yelling abuse to the perso who made the remark - because of the connotations that come with the word 'golliwog'
she flipped out & became abusive too.

[Mojo]

Elias wrote:

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I take your's and Scooterman's collective points into consideration. Yes the doll itself isn't the problem it's the perception. I'm afraid while it represents nostalgia for your generation's childhood it represents the sinister face of racism for people like myself.
I'm afraid seeing it in shop windows is like seeing a burning cross on my front lawn. It is harmful for our mental health.

well cry us a river you anti-white wobblehead!

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