listing all racist paraphernalia throughout history

[cacian]

yes another list...

I start:

a golliwog

the golliwog, golliwog or golly was a black character
in children's books in the late 19th century
usually depicted as a type of rag doll.
While home-made golliwogs were sometimes female,
the golliwog was generally male
For this reason,
in the period following World War II,
the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear,
as a suitable soft toy for a young boy.

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[Dreamwoven]

It wasn't just rag dolls. Remember the Black and White Minstrel Show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show)? And Al Jolson singing My Mammy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson). This was the period when these kinds of shows were popular.

[MANICHAEAN]

There was the Robertson jam one as well.
But leaving all this to one side, in the context of the time, was the intention racist? Invariably no.
We get so hung up these days with what is politically correct.
If someone is racist and expresses it as such, then at least you know where you are and can deal with it accordingly.
What is more insidious is the unexpressed, whisper behind the hand type of racism.

[Dreamwoven]

I agree entirely.

I used to watch B&W Minstrels and enjoyed it in the 1950s. The same goes for trad jazz from New Orleans and even more recently Motown. The rise of the Black Panther Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party) was pat of the growing consciousness of Afro-American identity.

But apart from that we do live in an era in which we question more and more the basis of ethnic discrimination. Its even got to children's books like the adventures of Tin Tin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin).

[cacian]

It wasn't just rag dolls. Remember the Black and White Minstrel Show (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_and_White_Minstrel_Show)? And Al Jolson singing My Mammy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson). This was the period when these kinds of shows were popular.

I guess they were popular because people did not question the image behind the joke.

[cacian]

I agree entirely.

I used to watch B&W Minstrels and enjoyed it in the 1950s. The same goes for trad jazz from New Orleans and even more recently Motown. The rise of the Black Panther Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party) was pat of the growing consciousness of Afro-American identity.

But apart from that we do live in an era in which we question more and more the basis of ethnic discrimination. Its even got to children's books like the adventures of Tin Tin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin).

Tin Tin?I have never heard anything about it being 'racist'.

[Dreamwoven]

Sweden is very pc, it is called jantelagen (http://interestingclouds.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/jantelagen-its-a-scandinavian-thing/).

See also this Guardian article (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/15/tintin-racism-sweden-row) on Tin Tin.

Pippi Longstocking is also due for a period in the stocks for the public to hurl rotten tomatoes at phrase about he father being a "negerkung" (http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=14452391#page:showThread,14452391) is being censored as offensive: http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=14452391#page:showThread,14452391.