Posted on 09/06/2011 3:21:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
The delightful homes nestle side by side in acres of open countryside.
One is an elegant, listed manor house, said to be the oldest in the village.
The other is a £1million barn conversion behind a red-brick wall and sweeping gravel drive.
But the harmony of this idyllic Suffolk community has been shattered – by a golliwog.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
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racially aggravated harassmentROTFLMAO!
And I have to admit... I don't have the slightest f*ing idea what a "golliwog" is... nor do I care.
But racially aggravated harassment???
ROTFLMAO!!!
First question - what was she doing looking in her neighbor’s window?
Dat be a tar baby, baby!
Do you find these dolls in the aisle marked Racially Aggravated Harassment?
How sensitive can you get? Now I can see if it tap danced or sang Mammy, but it doesn’t so why get so jacked-up about it. Now maybe I should get upset about Eddie Murphy playing that old white man character he does.
LOL
Why are they looking in the neighbors’ windows?
‘I do not believe it was casually tossed up there. It has caused immense upset. You live in the countryside and you think you have got away from all this nonsense.
My previous post...I posted those sentences because it says they expect more of this neighbor than their old neighbors because they’re country folks. Hmmmm Sounds prejudicial to city folks!!!
Jihadiwog.
It’s a good thing they don’t have a black jockey horse holder in the front yard.
We talk about the similarities and differences between Britain and the United States, this highlights an important difference - 1st Amendment "Freedom of Speech". Here a newspaper cannot permit comments, I wonder why?
Because it might prejudice a criminal case.
Britain does have freedom of speech built into the common law (although there are some limits on things like ‘hate speech’, etc) - but it also has the right to a fair trial built into the common law. If comment in a newspaper might prejudice a defendant’s right to a fair and impartial jury, it is generally not permitted.
It’s not that the case can’t be discussed - it’s that it can’t be discussed in a forum which large number of potential jurors are likely to have read and The Daily Mail is the second most read paper in the UK.
And, you know what the term “tar baby” comes from
Joel Chandler Harris of Eatonton, GA- as part of the Brer Rabbit series.
A tar baby was a doll, sometimes dressed, sometimes not. Poor folks made these dolls out of shaped and molded pine tree tar (color is amber if anything) that was molded from melted or very warm congealed pine tar from the turpentine process. It was never made from what most people today think of as “tar” (road asphalt that is black color).
But somehow, pc types have got all bent out of shape about a doll that was used and made by poor folks for their kids— poor whites and blacks. No color line. Amazing really, how things are twisted by those who would twist them to purpose. Just like this idiot couple who take offense where none was intended or even directed.
They will lose this case, but then it isn’t about the doll— it is about being bad neighbors and a wedge to irritate. Manor people usually are inherited people- british class warfare here at it’s silliest.
I never had or ever heard of a golliwog. Is it a doll? I had an Amosandra doll( a brown rubber doll named for the popular Amos and Andy Show characters)when I was a little (white)girl. It was a favorite doll until I left it under the lilac trees overnight and the neighbor’s dog ran off with it and chewed it up.
A hate crime, perhaps!
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