cockbeard wrote:Mother collected those, I don;t have anything of hers but if I could choose anything it would be that selection of pins from Robinsons jam, they were brilliant and you could see the trades change through the decades, from farmer golly, to spaceman gollyUnlikely wrote:I can remember Golliwog marmalade. Collect labels and send away for Golliwog (I don't think we did).
the Guardian wrote:Blackface is the joke that comforts white Americans who, consciously or otherwise, are terrified of nonwhite people, as Ellison knew. It lives on like a comfort food. The critic Elias Cannetti argued, in Crowds and Power, that laughter allows us to take power over the one we laugh at; perhaps this is why, even now, blackface still exists, a crude, cruel attempt by certain white Americans to retain a sense of racial superiority. Blackface is a ghost we may never be able to exorcise; it is too deeply, painfully American.
Unlikely wrote:That's the stuff (I think). Each jar label had a Golliwog character on it. I don't remember pin badges but now that I think about it there may have been a doll in the house at some point. Not sure whether it was related to the marmalade.cockbeard wrote:Mother collected those, I don;t have anything of hers but if I could choose anything it would be that selection of pins from Robinsons jam, they were brilliant and you could see the trades change through the decades, from farmer golly, to spaceman gollyUnlikely wrote:I can remember Golliwog marmalade. Collect labels and send away for Golliwog (I don't think we did).
Facewon wrote:Did I miss something, has something new happened?
LivDiv wrote:Also if he wanted Comic Relief to highlight something a better way would be to offer to do a piece on that for them.
David Lammy wrote:You continue to miss the point. Flying me, a British politician, out to speak for citizens of a continent I have never lived on is more of the same patronising fluff. Please invite an African filmmaker, celebrity, farmer, teacher or businessperson to make a film in my place.
RedDave2 wrote:I think the 1 billion in aid raised over the 30 years is pretty effective.
Armitage_Shankburn wrote:RedDave2 wrote:I think the 1 billion in aid raised over the 30 years is pretty effective.
Oh yeah? What's your evidence
LivDiv wrote:...Attacking Dooley is proper tight, she is alright, there are worse celebs going out there for more selfish reasons... There is a genuine element of white saviour about Comic Relief. It's been going about 30 years now, it's either not all that effective in the grand scheme of things or exists to make white and otherwise privileged people feel good. Either way its aims are good and attacking it is a bit poor...
RedDave2 wrote:Armitage_Shankburn wrote:RedDave2 wrote:I think the 1 billion in aid raised over the 30 years is pretty effective.
Oh yeah? What's your evidence
Going by wikipedia page which gets its source from their own declarations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief
Or are you questioning how they raise the money? Or distribute it? Confused.com
Then why did he go after her and not Comic Relief?Diluted Dante wrote:Um, Lammy has made clear that he has no issue with Dooly personally, his issue is with Comic Relief and the way they go about things.
LivDiv wrote:Then why did he go after her and not Comic Relief? He fucked it up, it's a classic Labour effort of being well intentioned but buried under being totally incompetent so the message is lost.Diluted Dante wrote:Um, Lammy has made clear that he has no issue with Dooly personally, his issue is with Comic Relief and the way they go about things.
nick_md wrote:I dunno, message seemed clear and fairly valid to me, regardless of how well it was conveyed.
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