GOLLIES

[markie]

Cops raided a shop keepers shop ( try saying that when your pi#sed ), anyway they raided it because he had 3 gollies in his window, and he could face prosecution over it
It's political correctness gone mad.
You can't even fart without getting wrong for it, god help us say, 10-20 years time.
Rant over

feel free to post your replies neg or pos. ( could do with a argument )

 

[Steve]

whats a gollie?

 

[toffee]

gollie ***.. (someone will no doubt find a pic and post it.. I dont know how to do it)

You used to be able to get badges off jam jars.

now they are considered racist as they were black.

live and live I say but its not about equality these days and it helps no ones cause.

 

[kendor]

mainly because the term '***' was used in a derogatory way towards non white people over here during the 60's/70's.

 

[mlb3c]

you know it's coming...........here it is.......wait....wait...

what is a gollie? asks the yank...

 

[kendor]

they were used as a brand for a certain jam manufacturer over here a few decades back.
I suppose over there a similar advertising icon would be the red indian statues advertising cigars?

 

[mlb3c]

they were used as a brand for a certain jam manufacturer over here a few decades back.

thanks kendor....crystal clear now

 

[toffee]

I wish I could find a piccy for you but I dont know how to do it.

I think it was robertsons, a jam making company who had a little person as a character to advertise their product.
It was a golliwog.

The golliwog was a black character...

I was only a child then and never viewed it as a hate the blacks thing!!!!!

but it was banned because it was apparently offensive.

maybe it was... but Id like to say, I never thought of the golli on the jam pot as meaning that folk with black skin were any different to me!!!!

 

[markie]

Continuing kendor post the pic was a black doll like pic, it was used for a certain jam maker on there jars, the same as the black and white minstrels act.
But what i don't understand is why is it so bad now, but was acceptable years ago when the black v white was a issue

 

[kendor]

I wish I could find a piccy for you but I dont know how to do it.

I think it was robertsons, a jam making company who had a little person as a character to advertise their product.
It was a golliwog.

The golliwog was a black character...

I was only a child then and never viewed it as a hate the blacks thing!!!!!

but it was banned because it was apparently offensive.

maybe it was... but Id like to say, I never thought of the golli on the jam pot as meaning that folk with black skin were any different to me!!!!

I think the association came later during the skinhead culture of the late 60's early 70's where the term 'golliewog' or shortened to '***' was used against non whites.

 

[markie]

Toff

how old are u ish

 

[swelec]

http://www.spiritofsport.co.uk/images_versions/682.jpg

 

[mlb3c]

i dont want to kick up a fuss....and im taking a wild guess...here in usa about 100 yrs ago, an african american (if you know the history of slavery...might giive you a hint) was known raciously as a "pik a ninny"--a terrible word, that became the icon word for the picture of little negro children with lots of braids in their hair....i think it was a "brand" also but dont know for what product....some people collect this type of "folk" art still.
Is this anywhere close to what this is referring too?

 

[swelec]

http://www.teddybearclub.co.uk/prodimages/norelle_small_m.jpg

http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/golliwog.htm

 

[toffee]

im 35 .

I can remenber also little black sambo books, which were about a black slave boy (shame shame )

but despite this..

I was never brainwashed into thinking that anyone who had a different skin colour to me was any different ( not true.. we are all different( I as never led to believe that I was superior to ANYONE.

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