played with it. Robertson's used it as a mascot. It is harmless fun
for children like Raggedy Ann and Teddy bears and Paddington Bear.
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
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.