Golli in the window

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....hbour-black-wife.html

Is it being racist to display a legal toy in one's window?

[andy-hughes]

Let me take a wild totally out-there guess doc - are you white by any chance ... perhaps ... just maybe ... sort of ... you know ...?

[andy-hughes]

I'll take that as a 'yes' then - ethnicity is not optional.

[jake-the-peg]

Well I hope you won't be offended if I burn a poppy

Perfectly legal thing to do

Just a piece of plastic and paper

[notasyoungasiwas]

Luv you doc you've got the guts to say what a lot of us haven't ....

[joggerjayne]

No, Doc ... stop, stop ...

I'm going to have a seizure here !

I hardly ever laugh this much at anything in News, but ...

I love the surreal "stream of consciousness" flowing from fat old men, to Barbie (note spelling, Doc!), to Cabbage Patch dolls, to gnomes ...

LOL, LOL, LOL ... you are making me die !!

[sara3]

notasyoung.. that doesn't take guts, lol. if you also want to make comments that you know will promote outrage, ask yourself if they're worthy of saying/thinking.

some of what was acceptable back in the 60s and 70s is no longer acceptable in this society.

this golliwog was intended to cause offence, and she achieved her aim.

[sara3]

Jayne, was the whole golliwog issue really funny, too?

[sp1814]

The good news is that this foolish woman now has the shame of a criminal conviction.

Bet that wiped the smile off her stupid face.

[notasyoungasiwas]

I agree with doc still, pc gone mad and as some have already pointed out on here, she certainly goes out of her way to be offended!! We don't know what she has said (or done) to the poor, arrested woman. Racism always seems to work one way imo ...

[sara3]

what do you know about the "poor" arrested woman?

[sp1814]

Something else - remember the whole story about blacks nit moving out of urban areas (Midsomer Murders) - perhaps this is the reason why? Are there more elderly people willing to racially abuse their black neighbours outside the big cities, than inside?

Not saying that's true - but it makes me wonder...?

[notasyoungasiwas]

I say poor because it is ridiculous that she was arrested.

Thanks Doc ... !

[sp1814]

Yeah - why is this now a 'poor arrested woman'.

What do you know about her?

She could be a nasty old cow!

The fact that the Daily Mail had used the perforative term 'grandmother' to evoke sympathy should not cloud your judgement of the story. There are OAPs who are rotten to the core. Just because they're drawing a pension, doesn't automatically confer sainthood.

[sara3]

sp, you make a good point. it's the older generation who feel their views aren't racist, when they quite often are.

[boxtops]

No sp, not round here, anyway, we have people of several colours and creeds in our street