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You can buy a cute fabric mammy golly. (Emphasis on the word "cute.") You can also find a a Shoeshine Black Boy. (This one has a "Sambo type smiling face cute." Yes, "face cute" not "cute face".) There's an Aunt Jemima figurine and even a Black Cannibal Headhunter. There are over 70 items for you to choose in all.
Don't want "vintage"? You can even knit your own golly with a patten sold on the website.
A few hundred people have signed a petition asking Etsy to enforce its own policy of barring hateful items from its site. The policy, which went into effect in January 2011, says it will be "specifically disallowing items that denigrate people or promote hate." The policy says:
We no longer allow items
or listings that promote, support or glorify hatred toward or otherwise
demean people based upon race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender
identity, disability, or sexual orientation; including items or content
that promote organizations with such views.
The petition says:
Perhaps one of the most disturbing aspects of this issue is that that one would be hard pressed to find racist items of any other demographic on Etsy, which begs the question, Why is it okay to sell items that dehumanize and denigrate those that fall into the category of ‘black people'; and would there be the same lack of response were these items offensive toward the LGBTQQ community, or Asian community, or any demography that is "more likely" to be shopping or selling on Etsy?
We couldn't have said it better ourselves. The petition is here. Join SBW in our Two Person Boycott.
