(April 25, 2009 at 6:59 pm)bozo Wrote: Do you not appreciate how offensive golliwogs are to most black people?I do indeed, and I would ask them to explain how they can rationalize such offense when it is common knowledge in today's society that golliwogs are not an accurate representation of black people, just as Bratz are not an accurate representation of white people. If people were buying golliwogs and giving them to their children saying "this is a black person", or "look at this doll of a black person", I would object. However this is not what people are doing, and this is certainly not what I am going to do with my kids.
Words and depictions will last forever, but interpretations can change in an instant.
