Posted by Aaron Brown on 2/24/2004, 3:51 pm As a child, my Golliwog was my favorite toy. He was my best friend. I loved him and he was not the same skin color as myself. I cry as I write this, because people are telling me that, somehow, it was wrong of me. I can't imagine feeling negatively about people because of the color of their skin, and I know that it's because I spent much of my childhood with a friend that was always there for me. I never saw him in a nevative light. I loved him. I am a better man for my exposure to him. Please name me another successful toy that ever produced such a love in children for people of a different race. I suppose it's all in it's context... don't tell children that it's negative and it won't be. I think we should think twice before removing a "black" doll that "white" children can hug and love. Tha't all.
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As an adult, I can see that my childhood friend had roots in racism. Or, better put... a simple view of things that could now be seen as negative. But let me say this:
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