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When my first son was on the way (35 years ago) my ex-wife and I went to buy the stuff to kit out the nursery and one of the things my ex fell in love with was a 4ft tall golly, he was wonderfully cuddly felt and sat proudly in the corner of son’s room. The first midwife to visit was a very large black lady, she loved it too. Unfortunately we had to get rid of it a couple of years later when son and a friend decided to cover it in sudacream which we couldn’t get out.
My wife now is black and we had an amusing moment when we were in Sevenoaks with one of her sons from her previous marriage and I pointed out to him that he was standing in front of a pub called The Black Boy . We’ve passed that pub hundreds of times and never thought anything of it, his reaction was “Wow, how do they get away with that?”. I look back at old TV series like Love thy Neighbour and now wonder why we thought they were funny (and actually it was the white guy that was made to look stupid). Visiting Penshurst Place recently we were wandering around their toy museum and one of the display cabinets had a disclaimer sign in it, because there was an old tin mechanical toy of a black man and it’s name (I can’t remember what it was) would not be acceptable now. Times change but I do think the PC brigade go too far.