More PC hysteria.

These PC numpties should all be locked up, in rubber rooms.

The nanny society will be the death of us all

The Netherlands is the most PC place on earth, yet study their Christmas festivities and see "Black Peter" on almost every street corner.

I had a gollywog as a child, I still have it in the loft with a Sambo hand puppet. they were just things of a particular era. Remember love Thy neighbour?!

Bring back the Golly

I had no idea as a child that Golly was based on a human. I thought it was some hybrid animal related to the gonk!

bring back golli jam badges,the golli on macaroon bars ,bring back all gollis

Don't they have a black friend/equivelant for Barbie? Should that be banned? What about the black Bratz (got a daughter so now I'm an expert on Bratz apparently!). Should that be banned too? Total and utter moronic p*sh.

Not sure about brining them back. I remember them when I was young. I also remember -around the same time - that my Grandparents' next door heighbour had a black pit-bull terrier called 'Nigger'. Can't see that coming back in vogue!

And Post 8.
An Aussie firm brought out an 'Outback' Barbie a few years ago. She had dreads, tattoos, nose-ring and leg and pubic hair! In fact, here'as link I've just found:-
http://www.motherjones.com/news/exhibit/1999/09/feral_che...

Here's some more useless information.

Guy Gibson who led the Dambuster raids during WW2 had a black labrador called Nigger. He was run over on the night of the raid.

It wasn't a racist term back then. Only now is it considered a racist term for some reason.

Was in Africa last year and got called "Snow Drop" and "Snow White". Wasn't offended in the slightest, found it quite funny actually given I'm a vitreolic Scot.

I haven't seen this story anywhere else, so I'm not sure how widespread the criticism of this particular incident has been, or who is protesting about it. I assume though, that if it is worthy of making the national news section of the Scotsman, there has been some sort of an outcry about it? If that's the case, I agree that it is PC gone mad.

You often find that the people who protest against such things are the same people who will protest about, well..... pretty much anything really! The professional protestors of any cause, regardless of how ridiculous it is. Of course, if there is some minority ethnic group who are saying that this is offensive to them (and there may be, I don't know), that should be taken more seriously.

According to Wikipedia, the Golliwog orginated in a book published in 1895. First described as 'the blackest gnome', which I suppose would now be thought offensive to gnomes, it quickly became a jovial, friendly character…. Also, it says, when Robertson's discontinued the logo on their jars of preserves in 2001, they were selling 250,000 Golly badges and receiving just ten letters of complaint annually.

So who is accusing Mr Martin of racism? Is it black people or is it politically-correct middle-class white do-gooders? Do accusations of racism tell us more about the mind of the accused or the minds of the accusers?

Is it racist to put on display some aspects of our heritage? Should we suppress them and thus rewrite our history? Orwell was dead against this; perhaps we should be, too.

Does the image of the Golly really harm anyone? My personal view is that such displays provoke discussion, which helps to clarify everyone's opinions of both Gollys and black people. That can only be good.

Can't be any worse than those Cabbage Patch Dolls of the 80's. They looked like white versions of Golliwogs.

I don't see white folks complaining about that, nor do I see middle class black folks complaining about it either.

#11: It wasn't always a racist term, but when people started to use it as one (mainly in america to start with) it became one.