Holidaying couple find shop 'packed with golliwogs and other racist memorabilia'

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Leeds Live takes up Adam's story: “I asked the lady in the shop what the obsession was with racist dolls, she told me she wasn't the proprietor of the shop. "Luckily the owner was there, so I asked her.“She told me the dolls weren't there to offend.

I told her I was offended. She told me I was in the minority of people that were offended by them, then said she gets this every day."I presume she meant people challenging her for selling racist dolls.”Golliwogs first appeared in a series of children’s books written by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th Century.Toy versions, especially for small boys, and were widely available until well into the 1970s.Their historic association with blackface and minstrel shows makes them offensive to modern.