tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post5614827109114588224..comments2024-03-04T10:20:10.154+00:00Comments on Anna Chen: Madam Miaow Says: Bigotgate and GolliwogsMadam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-59791959592697174032010-05-05T09:44:05.655+01:002010-05-05T09:44:05.655+01:00Surely the golliwog has nothing to do with hanging...Surely the golliwog has nothing to do with hangings beside picnics. I mean how exactly are the two connected?Mr. Divinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052431203238859217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-82002003850709887552010-05-04T19:31:16.354+01:002010-05-04T19:31:16.354+01:00That's a nice sentiment to end on Mr Divine, b...That's a nice sentiment to end on Mr Divine, but the imagery is so loaded with history. The period where you could sum up the black race in one cuddly non-threatening cartoon of real human beings was also an age where slavery was a living memory, when some US states had anti-miscegenation laws (interracial shagging, to you), where black men could be taken out and hanged as entertainment for the picnicking white folks. <br><br>The golliwog has a whole lot of other meaning that we shouldn't be reviving..Madam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-85756784989992848792010-05-04T08:46:46.055+01:002010-05-04T08:46:46.055+01:00You could say that the Golliwog was an instrument ...You could say that the Golliwog was an instrument of good. I remember having a goliwog, collecting those golliwogs off jam labels, and loving the black and white minstrals. I even remember once at uni when I sewed a golliwog to the back of my braces and walked around a real busy motorway service station. You wanna have seen some of the looks.<br><br><br>Anyway you treat your golly like you treat your teddy bear at that edge, with love and affection. it's good training a toddler being nice to a symbol of a person who are a different colour to you at a very impressionable age. Hopefully this will transfer to the real thing, at least it's a start.Mr. Divinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052431203238859217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-33918309331054770942010-05-04T07:26:50.153+01:002010-05-04T07:26:50.153+01:00So you're back in Cornwall. have you met that...So you're back in Cornwall. have you met that cake salesman that disappeared last year? And how is your apartment over looking the harbour, and your little yacht with your name printed on the side. Has any local yokels vandalised them with their golliwogs?<br><br>Me its chainsaw season and the broken branches that have fallen when their sap got sapped by the heat of the summer sun are put to the Husquavna sword. And then stacked by the side of the house in readiness for winter. The wicked witch of winter (that's you!) is soon to arrive and the fires shall heat the arses of your followers down under( that's me).Mr. Divinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052431203238859217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-15351962467379681532010-05-02T15:57:03.856+01:002010-05-02T15:57:03.856+01:00I agree, Ally. He might as well have stood by his ...I agree, Ally. He might as well have stood by his initial instinctive reaction and at least carved out a belated reputation for integrity. And while he was at it, while Labour's going down the pan anyway, he could have promised to tax the rich, protect our services in a meaningful way and maybe got in with a landslide.<br><br>Gwei Mui: that's horrible! Your poor hubby.<br><br>Harpy and Mx Chief, it just beggars belief. <br><br>On a positive note, the older woman assistant in one of the shops was very nice, said it hadn't occurred to her that it might be offensive as she was anti-racist, and confirmed that people like myself are welcome down there. She was quite concerned that Loved One and I were upset. I think most people are not racist, more unthinking, and it's only when you draw their attention to these issues in this sort of way that they realise such things can be hurtful. She also said that the range didn't sell that well, so maybe that says something good about the general public.Madam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-79733055994670413532010-05-02T14:33:36.977+01:002010-05-02T14:33:36.977+01:00Sorry, just to clear up where I stand (vague comme...Sorry, just to clear up where I stand (vague comments are my speciality!) -<br><br>In my opinion should have stuck to his guns, the apology was wrong.Allyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276963179793390909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-88161776445136078472010-05-02T14:31:36.324+01:002010-05-02T14:31:36.324+01:00Hi, great post. The sanctification of Mrs Duffy i...Hi, great post. The sanctification of Mrs Duffy is one of the most shameful episodes in this election campaign. Brown was played right into the hands of the Tory press - hung drawn and quartered for his lack of conviction, and deservedly so...Allyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276963179793390909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-6020888069230827172010-05-01T23:59:51.800+01:002010-05-01T23:59:51.800+01:00Swart Piet isn't a gollywog - http://en.wikipe...Swart Piet isn't a gollywog - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet<br><br>However still a bit dodgy.<br><br>My mum's best friend married a man called Peter who was in the Black and White Minstrel Show in the 70s!<br><br>I can't believe you can buy Golliwogs in the 21st century, remember Enid Blyton books where the gollys were bad and criminal?Ms Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01488172624713157756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-1339354813251093362010-05-01T23:08:04.289+01:002010-05-01T23:08:04.289+01:00I remember working some years ago in Hertfordshire...I remember working some years ago in Hertfordshire, mainly around Ware, Cheshunt, and Broxbourne. Ware, especially, gave me the creeps as it was totally white middle class and that unnerved me. A Black woman I met while working there told me that she went to the FE college in Ware sometime in the late 70s/early 80s and she was the only Black person at the college and everyone would stop and stare at her. She, like me, lived in London. She too told me Ware gave her the creeps.<br>Cheshunt, for example, has a small immigrant population yet the fascists have always historically done well there. The NF had one of their highest polling in Cheshunt circa 1979. <br><br>When I worked in Hertfordshire during the late '90s racist attacks had increased in the Broxbourne area and I recall a bloke I worked with who was organising anti-racist/anti-fascist meetings as a way of organising and campaigning and highlighting what was happening in this area.harpymarxhttp://harpymarx.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-33873326533168071552010-05-01T17:03:27.075+01:002010-05-01T17:03:27.075+01:00The Guardian runs out before the others. And there...The Guardian runs out before the others. And there's plenty of the Mail, so make of that what you will.<br><br>I'll nip in and have a look at where they're made but what's the betting that it's probably somewhere beginning with C and ending in A?<br><br>It's all going backwards.Madam Miaowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1244044300216345080.post-19552284680162798142010-05-01T16:59:03.978+01:002010-05-01T16:59:03.978+01:00Great article (once again).Out of interest, what&#...Great article (once again).<br><br>Out of interest, what's the mix of newspapers down there and which piles are bigger than others in the morning?<br><br>And where were those gollywogs made? (I was shocked to find out, while living in Amsterdam, that Sinta Klaus doesn't have elves for helpers but gollywogs.)Oliver Shykleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15085577237625636631noreply@blogger.com