Posted on 04/11/2023 8:18:40 PM PDT by algore
The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation.
Last week four Essex police officers and a trainee seized all the dolls on show in the White Hart Inn in Grays as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime.
The dolls divide opinion in Grays. On Tuesday some pub regulars turned up to show support, but others expressed their fury. The pub’s landlady, Benice Ryley, 62, refuses to accept they are racist.
Clutching an armful of the dolls, including three that have been donated by supporters, she said: “I’m going to put them back.”
She added: “I’m getting a notice printed saying ‘We’ve got gollies on display, if you find this offensive please don’t come in’. If they don’t like them they can walk out the door.”
The pub’s CCTV footage showed a man entering the pub on 1 March complaining about the dolls. “The police told me he was the victim of an alleged hate crime,” Ryley said.
Sunder Katwala, director of the integration thinktank British Future, said he was concerned by a post by Chris Ryley on Facebook.
The 2016 post showed dolls hanging from a shelf in the bar alongside a comment by him saying, “They used to hang them in Mississippi years ago”. Katwala said that Chris Ryley had referenced lynchings in Mississippi in connection to the pub’s golliwogs collection in a Facebook post in 2016.
He said: “That shows a serious expression of racial hostility that is inappropriate to the holder of a licensed premise. The council or the police should find a way to stop that kind of display.”
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The Brit government is warm friends, of our government and bankers. Of the American people, the Republic, and our founding principles.... not so much.
Florence Kate Upton did create it based on the blackface minstrels.
And it was used in the period from the 1920s to 1970s as a racial slur for black people and used to mock them.
I don’t think the pub owner means to mock people of a certain skin type, but the doll was used for doing that for a very long time
So, one person was offended which caused LE to raid the private business and confiscate legally owned property.
Guessing if I was offended by this jackbootery, they’d return the property, right? Naw, didn’t think so.
This dude has some explaining to do himself.
On the wall behind him is a clock with the time 12:45. The Book of Luke 12:45 talks about getting drunk and beating servants(slaves) male and female.
Why does this rube advocate beating women and slaves yet gets his panties in a wad over a child’s doll?
EC
Golliwogs were just part of a kid’s life in Britain. Where do tou get this racist hatred crap. In our town of 150,000 there was one black person in the 20s and 30’s. He called himself ol’ nigger Joe. Kids would go down to the docks to find him. It was considered special if he let you sit on his lap while he told stories to the children. He was an institution in our town. All this hatred of blacks in Britain must account for the thousands of British women who married black GIs.
As my wife says, we never thought of golliwogs as black people, they were just golliwogs.
Hate and racism was practically non-existant until the arrival of of the professional political race-baiters of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Aunt Jemima was never used to mock anyone.
Neither was Uncle Ben.
Both are gone.
Enough with this crap.
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben should not have been removed.
The Golliwog is not that simple
Sure it is.
If you’re offended, don’t drink there.
See how easy that was?
"But, but....it's blek!" 
Here’s a thought, place them on shelves. I can see why someone may be upset, but not hate crime upset.
Looks like a dolly representation of a lawn jockey.
I’m really thankful that I was an expat in Southeast Asia during the bulk of the ‘60s. I missed out on all of the cultural BS.
Personally, when we did return to the US I attended a Southern High School named after a confederate general. During the autumn they had an event called “Slave & Master” day. TBH - that was perplexing to me.
The school was very parochial and cliqueish, so I really wasn’t “in” with the In Crowd. Looking back that was probably a good thing.
mewzilla wrote:
Aunt Jemima was never used to mock anyone.
Neither was Uncle Ben.
In fact, at least for the “Aunt Jemima” family, they were PROUD of the fact she was on the pancake mix.
I could "open in new tab"; but, could not repost it.
This one is similar, but not exact.
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