I feel it is because the world has gone mad with political correctness and people seeing offence when none is intended. My grandmother was white and lived in South Africa in about 1890 and she told me that the reason black people were referred to as niggers was because the original people used in slavery came from the River Niger area. I feel it is no different to calling a person originating from London as a Londoner. Lots of countries have their names cut short to give names to the residents; Scots - Scotland, Brits - British, yet it is now politically incorrect to call someone from Pakistan a Paki which is an obvious abbreviation of the country. Some nicknames originated from food - the French were frogs, Germans krauts because of sauerkraut, English pommy from the French word for apples.
One TV presenter found herself in trouble when she referred to someone looking like a golliwog. It was his hairstyle she was referring to. When I was young I loved my golliwog toy with its black, bushy hairdo. We even proudly collected metal broaches in the shape of different gollywogs off jam jars. It was because we LIKED them we collected them.
One TV presenter found herself in trouble when she referred to someone looking like a golliwog. It was his hairstyle she was referring to. When I was young I loved my golliwog toy with its black, bushy hairdo. We even proudly collected metal broaches in the shape of different gollywogs off jam jars. It was because we LIKED them we collected them.
