Anyone Still Thinks That Gollies Are Racist?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761230/Grandmother-Ghana-sells-Gollywogs-dresses-one-charity-bid-reclaim-black-heritage.html

[zebo]

Mamyalynne, I wonder of they were a Bolton area thing? We were in Farnworth.

[hc4361]

Gromit, this may be of interest

http://theculturetrip.com/africa/ghana/articles/ghana-s-slave-castles-the-shocking-story-of-the-ghanaian-cape-coast/

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think they were regional Zebo - the one my Gran had scared me a bit when I was small.

[vetuste_ennemi]

When I learned about the slave trade, HC, I think we called it the Gold Coast.

[hc4361]

Some of those money boxes were quite friendly looking, others were nightmarish

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=***+money+box&safe=active&client=opera&;hs=DOh&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&;ved=0ahUKEwjl8sS17eHOAhVsBMAKHfUpBAUQ_AUICSgC&biw=1536&;bih=748

[DSJ]

I also had a Golly and loved him. He always looked so cheerful.

I still have a Robertson's Golly badge. Mine is holding a cricket bat.

[zebo]

Krupps was the name I couldn't call to mind, most of the big German companies were involved with the Nazis, otherwise they wouldn't have survived. At what point do we draw a line and live for today and the future rather than the past, however inglorious it might have been?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Wonder if Mikey ever saw 1776. Here's an extract with the marvellous John Cullum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzB6gGBiC7Y

[hc4361]

The British Gold Coast, vetuste

[mikey4444]

Thanks for that VE !

[THEMOTLEY1]

http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/QO8AAOSw3ydVntU9/s-l225.jpg

[jennyjoan]

if a black person thinks they are inoffensive why should a white. good luck to her

[THEMOTLEY1]

They seem to be Jolly Boy Dolls now
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jolly+boy+dolls&biw=1066&bih=499&tbm=isch&;tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&;ved=0ahUKEwi9hoWO8OHOAhWiIsAKHdJKA5wQsAQIGw#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACW_1RNWTqzjx8IjgtZQExZWEIo9udkQCsfM-1yWSvZ1fNmocbnDJMVhPEwijLHvNo6PIGolG_1HIW4lGnQtggsggN1SCoSCS1lATFlYQijEW-ZsoqULE2SKhIJ252RAKx8z7UR6W_12AVrDwwYqEgnJZK9nV82ahxGbyK4PWU7tVyoSCRucMkxWE8TCEZvIrg9ZTu1XKhIJKMse82jo8gYRcfKPeZGre6gqEgmiUb8chbiUaRHXb-3lpIJbSCoSCdC2CCyCA3VIEWs2gYmpqRIm&q=jolly%20boy%20dolls

[zebo]

So true about post-war Germany not only did the Americans ensure that they, Germany, were playing with a stacked deck, they also had no compulsion in taking whatever Nazis they could use themselves. their space programme was based on technology tested in the skies over the UK, but they don't like to be reminded of that.

[ivor4781]

there still in shops too

[hc4361]

jennyjoan, I don't know if you are aware but some Africans consider West Indian / Caribbean descendants of slaves to be inferior, whether they are living in the West Indies or anywhere else in the world.