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A doll that sparked a debate
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Very often, the issues which prompt fierce and passionate debate in homes, pubs and workplaces focus on the political issue of the day.
However, yesterday an article prompted discussion of a different sort.
Complaints that a St Helier shop was selling what the proprietor described as ‘gollies’, black dolls historically referred to as golliwogs, raised questions about our attitudes to race and the extent to which we should respect the sensitivities of others – and how much those attitudes have changed through successive generations in what is now a confidently multicultural community.
Read the rest of this Leader comment in Wednesday’s JEP.
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