My grandmother and her friends toiled for weeks to knit me a golli when i was a newborn, none of them could get the hair right so it got passed pretty much every elderly or knitting enthusiast for miles around until a lovely old lady managed to master it. That doll is still sitting proudly in my display case not only as a symbol of love from grand parent to grand child but also a community rallying around to do a nice thing (for context I’m very dark skinned mixed race)

Do you people who believe that golliwogs are racist realise that they were originally Chimney Sweep Dolls, The black was the soot. https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/170916-golliwogs-represent-chimney-sweeps.html Luckily I did NOT grow up with Enid Blyton so never realised the were supposed to be nasty. I always wanted a brown doll. I've now got some brown grandchildren so am complete now,

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The fact that she would rather her husband burn to death than lose her dolls really flies in the face of the whole 'kindness and safety' claim.

Oh just wrote a similar thing, it is frustrating, we don't need to feel guilty for other nations racisms. literally first time a see this stereotype. Most of our countries existed centuries before US was even discovered :)

Exactly - I had literally no clue what gollywags were and what watermelon had to do with racism until just now when I searched it up. I’m Korean, I grew up here, but I’m only a teen and this was never taught in the schools

First off, it's stunning how many countries don't tknow they have a history of slavery/enslavement ------ of Africans or otherwise ------- so take a break. The world doesn't know about your nation's history, either. So when an American does something you perceive as offensive to you, bear in mind what you said about Americans and repeat it about yourself: Why should you assume the whole world knows?

Exactly!!!!

@Signe Manat Hansen So is learning about problems of every single country in the world. I'm sure you made that choice.

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Being ignorant about the plight of African-americans in 2021 is a choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype

Hi! Black American here! I think the anger is coming from you engaging your “BP” comment fingers before your “Google” search fingers... True Story: I commented on one of my teenaged employees desire to get an elaborate back tattoo with a scrunched up face and a stern “what you’ll your mother say!?” “She’s helping me decide ms. K, in our culture it’s a rite of passage” Said he... Changed. My. Life. Not exactly what you did here but sometimes you don’t know til you know! Ya know? :)

Instead of dismissing something you have NO clue about, ask why. Then after you learn the background of this very real racist trope, then you can voice your opinion. Your username and pic are in Spanish, you say you live at the bottom of the world, so I’m going to assume Argentina or Chile. You’re right, they don’t have a large or sizable black population, but what they do have is a Nazi problem since the 1930’s. Ignorance becomes willful ignorance if you choose it.

You are SO right. People have these things because they APPRECIATE them, not because they dislike them.

This is racist because back in days of slavery, people thought that black people were so simple-minded that they would stop screaming and crying and view white people as the oppressive if they just gave slaves chicken and watermelon.

Eslamala has no interest in hearing what others have to say. She's too busy being violently upset about whatever she thinks woke means. She'll die w her uneducated opinions and swear she's right until the very end. She's seems very angry and upset every single day on here. Perhaps reading books would help her understand the world doesn't revolve around her.

Are you really this dumb?? showing black kids eating watermelon is racist as hell.

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Google images of "black figurines eating watermelon". As a matter of fact, just type "black figurines..." and the top autocomplete answer will be "... eating watermelon". That ain't cute.

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Damn girl. Swallow too many stupid pills?

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Sigh...ok Miss EveryoneIsTooPC. They depict a racist trope but I wouldn’t expect someone like you to get it. Signed — Your Woke Nightmare