The Butterfly and the Golliwog

Down here in England it seems that we still have some way to go before we can exorcise the ghost of colonialism. There has been an almighty row over an 'unguarded' or as we who like to speak plainly call it, a racist commment made by the daughter of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
After filming a television show, she was speaking to the show's presenter in the 'green room' backstage, and described a French tennis player as 'that froggy golliwog player'.
The people she was talking to called her on it, and told BBC management who demanded an apology which she didn't give, so they then removed her from her role as a roving reporter on the show.
Since then the media have decided that the BBC are being hypocrites because they didn't sack chat show host Jonathan Ross for his 'disgusting and lewd prank calls' to an elderly actor.
The papers have rushed to her aid and are all trying to defend what she said because it wasn't said on air.
First of all, she clearly thought it was okay to say it in the company of other white folk and not a brother or sister who would have smacked her bony ass. Does that mean that what she said is defensible? Clearly it wasn't, even to the white people present.
Secondly, there is all this debate that the Golliwog - which was blatantly modelled on primitive white ideas about black people is not offensive - and that its is just a doll. So why don't they still show The Black And White Minstrel Show which is where the idea came from? And if it wasn't offensive, why was it take off the Robinsons jam jar?
Thirdly, how can you call yourself a newspaper that represents Britain when you only let white people talk about this issue? For god's sake I AM A BLACK JOURNALIST and I walk past you every day! Only The Times, and the liberal papers gave a balanced view with the right-wing press opting for one-sided inflammatory rhetoric.
Fourthly, as for the issue of whether these toys should be banned or not, I think most right-thinking people would agree that a doll which encourages black people to be stereotyped as big-lipped, big-eyed, black as coal effigies has no place in a toy shop.
Really disappointing week for some sections of the British media. Poor show.