And what is wrong with the analogy as far as you are concerned, Martin?
Whether it's the US Civil Rights movement, ant-apartheid in South Africa or Paul Stephenson who, echoing Rosa Parks, lead the campaign against the Bristol Bus Company because of their bar on employing Blacks and Asians, life today is better because people did speak out.
I raise a glass to all the people who were offended that so pubs used to have signs reading 'No Blacks. No Irish' and decided not to look away. Good on them for 'spoiling it for everyone else''.
The mum in question, who is black, was visiting the school with a view to sending her son there, felt it was an inappropriate image for a primary school assembly hall.
The police were called by journalists asking them how they responded to hate crimes. The journos got a standard response from the police. This response was then shoe-horned into the story.
The result of all this? The mural remains. The police are not investigating any further. And the 'it's political correctness gone mad' brigade can clean the froth and spittle from their mouths.
Btw: There are no golliwogs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.