To post a comment on a charity shop's photo on FB displaying a golliwog for sale?

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A charity shop near me has posted a photo tonight of their new "retro" corner of sale items. It looks really good. Until I noticed a golliwog in the middle of the photo on top of a display unit.

My first reaction was to do a double take and then disbelief.

Looking through the comments not one person has commented on this. One person had actually tagged their friend saying simply "golly" as if it's something they would like.

I'm considering posting a comment however I don't want to come across as aggressive or confrontational. Just would like to state the fact simply about how offensive and inappropriate it is.

Alternatively I could phone the shop direct tomorrow?

Don't post, just phone tomorrow

Gollywogs are an item of historical interest and also a collectible I the same way that soviet is. I own a couple of soviet things myself-not because I am into genocide or large scale enslavement via communism but because it's interesting to me and an important part of my family's history. My parents and grandparents who were victims of the soviet regime made a point of showing me soviet artefacts they had brought with them and tellimg me honestly and explicitly about what they had suffered so that I wouldn't make the same mistakes my great grandparents made when they didn't run. Gollywogs are artefacts and important reminders of a time when black peopke's sufferings were a punchline. Instead of hiding them the full extent of gollywogs, blackface etc should be shown and explained contextually. This includes selling and otherwise circulating them. When you hold a gollywogs you hold a palpable reminder that black people have been treated abhorently by those claiming that it is the will of God, that black people aren't capable of human feeling, that it is a right to own another etc. If you try to brush this kind of stuff under the rug you risk forgetting just what people are capable of.

I agree. This Is exactly why I allow my children to play with Little Hitler. His little mustache is always the talk of any parties we attend.

It's closed today..