I used to have loads of gollies when I was a kid (still have them) and they were my very favourite toys. As I had working eyes, I did notice that, yes, most of them had black faces (although there were a few with brown, grey or even white faces - but they were still clearly styled as cute gollies) and, as kids often do with their teddies, I gave them names, talked to them and assigned them personalities. But even at a very young age, I knew full well that they were teddies, toys, my 'little friends' - and in no way actually people.
Even when I was a child, a long time ago, they were normally known as a 'golly', without the undoubtedly questionable suffix, which I was always led to believe (from the Robertsons literature) originated from a childish attempt to say the word 'dolly', which makes perfect sense to me. Apparently, they were made from the thick fabric of the skirts that housewives wore, when they became old and threadbare - which were commonly black in colour.
Latterly, when I became aware of the political awkwardness that existed and that they were becoming more and more scarce in shops, I mentioned this sometimes to shopkeepers, who told me that the majority of gollies that they sold were to black customers, who were often very happy to actually still find one.
FWIW, nearly all standard plastic dolls (many of which, I think, look quite scary) and rag dolls (much cuter, IMO, in a similar way to gollies) sold in the UK until fairly recently were white/Caucasian in colour until it was quite rightly identified as a problem, and now you can get dolls of colours more akin to a wide range of normal skin tones. As we all, children and adults (barring a few racist idiots) understand that these are 'toy people' and not actual people, what's the difference? As a PP mentioned, Cabbage Patch Dolls were invariably (all?) Caucasian-coloured and were very grotesque and exaggerated in their format. It never occurred to me for a moment as a child to feel offended as they were white toys and I was a white human person.
Sadly, we'll always have racist idiots to contend with. I've heard a lot of reports of brainless morons taking bananas to football matches and throwing them at black players in some kind of severely misguided belief that demonstrating to everybody how they are unable to understand the very clear differences between humans and monkeys/gorillas will make them look funny and clever. Oh dear.
Now I frequently buy bananas and we always have some in our house. When I pick one up, rather than bizarrely throwing it at a footballer, I peel it, eat it and enjoy it. As do millions of people - black, white and Asian - every day. Are we all secret racists who are condoning the continued acceptability of bananas by brazenly keeping them in our homes?
People's individual sensitivities should be respected, but you also have to take responsibility yourself and learn to ignore things that you object to for whatever reason, be they toys, TV programmes, foodstuffs, MN threads or anything. Don't read it, don't buy it, don't et it, don't use shops that sell it etc.