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Melbourne store removes golliwog to avoid offending Oprah Winfrey
news.com.au ^
| 9th December 2010
| Nick Leys, Jessica Craven
Posted on 12/08/2010 2:19:56 PM PST by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975
Man, they'd better hide this, too...
...and these...
To: naturalman1975
Crap. In a conversation with an older Black woman recently she referred to a younger woman with whom she was displeased as "nothin' but a fat black mammy." Normal black folks won't be traumatized by a doll f'r crissakes.
To: naturalman1975
My mother was born and raised in Manchester where she lived until she met and married my Air Force father. As a result, she had a lot of weird sayings that none of my friends' mothers ever said, lol!
One silly rhyme she used to regale us with at bedtime was: "Who peed," said the doggy. "I don't know," said the gollywog, "I don't know who peed."
Haven't heard the term in donkeys' years (another saying she had!).
Mrs. Prince of Space
To: the invisib1e hand
I loved Sambo’s when I was a kid. Great food and a fun cartoon story of a kid in India chasing a tiger.
If only I’d known how ‘racist’ it was back then I could have grown up to be a perpetually offended liberal.
To: SparkyBass
If only Id known how racist it was back then I could have grown up to be a perpetually offended liberal. Say, who exactly did Denny's offend?
To: naturalman1975
Golliwogs are deeply offensive to Americans because of their perceived links to slavery and racism.That's rather a broad brush statement. To a majority of Americans, they're simply a product of times gone by. A historical bit of trivia.
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posted on
12/08/2010 2:42:10 PM PST
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: buccaneer81; naturalman1975
I can recall having a golliwog as a very small child. I know that I liked it and that I did not associate it with black people. It was not dressed like the one at the top of this thread.
To: naturalman1975
Political correctness, plus attention-starved losers keep asinine concepts alive. And most of us shrug it off or consider it trivial. The mere concept that I am entitled to define what
must be offensive to everyone else, just boggles my mind.
I find the ugliness and insanity of Rosa DeLauro offensive, when I watch CSPAN.
They are everywhere!
They are everywhere...
As recently as 1975 there was a chain of very popular restaurants name Sambo's. All the characters from the charming story were depicted on the walls. I remember eating there regularly with my children. I can't remember when America lost its collective mind, but the business was attacked based solely on its name, and quickly faded away entirely. I supported the chain to the bitter end.
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posted on
12/08/2010 2:53:17 PM PST
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: the invisib1e hand
Sambo’s, RIP many decades now...
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posted on
12/08/2010 2:57:56 PM PST
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: naturalman1975
To: naturalman1975
Golliwogs are deeply offensive to AmericansNo they aren't.
Trust me, I'm an American.
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posted on
12/08/2010 3:02:09 PM PST
by
Eaker
(Pablo is very wily)
To: naturalman1975
To: naturalman1975
wouldn’t it be cool if Oprah and her planeload of guests rioted?
To: naturalman1975
GOLLIWOG DOLL
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posted on
12/08/2010 3:05:39 PM PST
by
Old Seadog
(Always do a little more than is expected, and someday .....it will be expected.)
To: naturalman1975
O.K. You racist rice eaters need to report to the Camps immediately.
To: winodog
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posted on
12/08/2010 3:08:39 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: the invisib1e hand
Dang, I hope Buckwheat doesn’t show up!
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posted on
12/08/2010 3:11:42 PM PST
by
derllak
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