Well Done That Man, Why Should He Be Forced To Remove His Golly, Just Because Of The Bbc's Sensitivities?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2902424/BBC-refuse-air-interview-black-history-campaigner-wearing-GOLLIWOG-doll-neck.html

[Old_Geezer]

He doesn't have to remove it.

The BBC doesn't have to interview him either.

Freedom of choice for both.

[mrs_overall]

If the man with the golly was white, there would have been uproar.
I cannot understand for the life of me how a black man with a black doll could offend anyone.
The world has gone mad

[jno]

OG is right, nobody was forced to do anything, so we have a win-win situation here. Why, even the Mail has had the opportunity to publish another story about its bitter commercial rival the BBC.

[ToraToraTora]

he rasies a valid point though, right on liberals have decided it is racist not the target of the percieved racism. A very common problem.

[Fusion5]

Don't understand what has wearing this doll round his neck got to do with campaign to stop the council closing a swimming pool. Weird.

[jno]

gollies were racist caricatures right from the very start. The only thing that's happened recently is that people have come to think racist caricatures are unacceptable.

Well, some people.

[ToraToraTora]

he's attention seeking, seems to have worked.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Why, even the Mail has had the opportunity to publish another story about its bitter commercial rival the BBC. ///

Did not realise that the Mail had it's own radio or TV outlets, or that the BBC had published it's own newspaper?

[jno]

I wonder if you've noticed that they both have news websites, aog?

[anotheoldgit]

Let's hope it doesn't have the same effect on some as those cartoons did?

[ToraToraTora]

"gollies were racist caricatures right from the very start" - this guys does not seem to agree with that.

[bazwillrun]

"people have come to think racist caricatures are unacceptable. "

the mainly leftie pc do gooders have managed to brainwash people into believing anything they percieve to be rascist (just about everything) must be racist so therefore everybody else has to agree with them or else get branded....

they arent happy unless they can force their message down your throats

[anotheoldgit]

/// I wonder if you've noticed that they both have news websites, aog? ///

Of which the Mail's is the worlds leader, so nothing to fear from the BBC.

Even the BBC admits it is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16746785

[Svejk]

If they were rivals, aog, it wouldn't be very fair. The Daily Mail doesn't get a 4 billion pound subsidy every year.

[Fusion5]

Tora, that was my first thought, attention seeking.

[wolf63]

I am confused as to why any grown man (or lady) would want to wear a golliwog (or any other doll) around his neck.

People are strange - what one person perceives as racist is no indication that others will agree with him/her.

The world has gone mad

[ummmm]

I also wonder what this has to do with a swimming pool closure and what point he was trying to make.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// I also wonder what this has to do with a swimming pool closure and what point he was trying to make. ///

I presume nothing it was just something he happened to be wearing, when the BBC wanted to interview him, he is also wearing a hideous coat and his hat is on sideways, do these also make him any less interviewerable?

It makes for a fun scarf, perhaps it will become fashionable and take the racist implications out of the Golly, anything that lightens such a miserable non humorous world can only be a good thing?

[Gromit]

Why a golliwog?
Surely an inflatable banana would have had similar racist connotations, but would have been more apprpriate for a swimming pool?

[naomi24]

Good for him.