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Golly, it's offensive
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
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It is an offensive caricature and its origins are sinister.
It has
its origins in a children's story where the character is described as 'a
horrid sight, the blackest gnome'. It is a caricature of the blacked-up
minstrels, themselves a caricature.
In effect, the golly is a
caricature of a caricature.
Perhaps Tangled Web (Write Back,
January 24) might care to ask his/her 'black brothers and sisters' what they
think of the doll and whether they would happily respond to the epithet
'wog'.
After that, he (or indeed, she) might like to have a lie
down.
Bleeding-Heart Liberal Londonderry
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