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Stevo

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Re: Carol Thatch

Feb 10, 2009, 00:15

fuzzy-wuzzy? wog-type.
sub saharan?
one of those chappies my brother bumped into in the desert?
bushman?

bog brush?

just don't have the same ring to it do it?

wonder if it was what Maggie thought was a kosher doll for her to play with as a kid? Interesting reading what the Guardian wrote about the doll's history
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/06/race-thatcher-golliwog
& the comment on how racist they were to a black perspective, actually from a black perspective
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/06/bbc-race-golliwog

which I saw in the paper. see they added some more in the Observer yesterday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/08/race-row-carol-thatcher1

also funny that the guardian search engine page i just looked those urls up on linked to an ebay ad for cheap golliwog dolls
http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=golliwog&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search

Stevo

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Re: Carol Thatch (dan_tuesday)