Walmart black baby dolls1/7/2024 “We lowered the price on a select group of toys, including only one of these dolls, to help drive sales. There are women recieving lip injections and buttock injections and deeply tanning their skin to appear more ethnic.RELATED CONTENT: “8 Black-Owned Toy Brands To Last-Minute Shop This Holiday Season”Ī spokeswoman for Walmart responded with a comment on the pricing inequality by partially telling WCPO : What is striking to me is that everyone wants to look like someone else because so many are unhappy with themselves. That is why some white women and non white women dye their hair blonde or try and get nose jobs like Vivica Fox (a black woman)to look closer to that image. Lets be really honest here people, this type of message is spoon fed to every woman that certain characteristics mainly present on white women is beautiful. They've told me that they wanted their kids to "look white with light skin." They want them to have "good hair." This is a mental issue and a lack of self esteem for one's self that produces the type of mindset that Walmart and others feel. Many of my black friends only date white women for this reason. There has always been an underlying message that unless she is white she is not right. I mean come on there is nothing new about this. Jack, just look at the way in which black and latina's are potrayed in the media. If there is a message, only someone like you could see it. Jack, Walmart's explanation rings true if for no other reason than they couldn't possibly be stupid enough to lower the price on the black Barbies out of racial prejudice. I just see dolls on sale and one is on clearance. To single out a certain doll because of a color is racist in itself. If an item does not sell, it will go on clearance. You'd have to have some sort of mindset that incorporates consideration, fairness and ethnic sensitivity to be aware of the message you might send, wouldn't you? Walmart only speaks dollars, so their prices reflect pushing sales of items that are not currently selling. I'm sure Patrick Kennedy is smashing his T.V. This should come as no surprise given the jobless rates among African-Americans. I'm black (aka African-American) and will tell you unambiguously that it means nothing more than the fact that (a) parents tend to buy Barbie dolls that most resemble their daughters and (b) fewer black parents are buying their girls dolls. I am black and growing up I had way more white dolls than black dolls (and a racial complex to go along with it.)Īhhh, c'mon Jack. Even black parents are more likely to buy white dolls for their kids than white parents are to buy black dolls. ![]() ![]() It is reflective of the situation in our American society: whites are valued more than blacks. There is a message even though people don't want to admit it. Not that I am racist, I do not like licorice. When I buy jelly beans, I always throw out the black ones. Anyone still holding a race card, please rip it up and dispose of it. Jack, Walmart was business-oriented when reducing the price of an item that has not sold. Interested to know which ones made it on air? Here’s my question to you: What message does it send when Walmart sells black Barbie dolls for less than white ones? She suggests Walmart should have kept the dolls at the same price in order not to reinforce any "ugly inequalities." One sociologist says that when white dolls sell more than black dolls - it is because black parents are more likely than white parents to buy a doll of a different race for their kids. Not everything can always come down to a business decision.Ĭritics charge Walmart should have been more sensitive when it came to these dolls - they say that even if it's not intentional, the chain is sending a message that "we value blackness less than whiteness." That reasoning works for lots and lots of products, but maybe not in this case. one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers." They say many items are marked for clearance, adding "both are great dolls. telling ABC News that the price reduction was meant to clear shelf space for new spring inventory. Walmart says this was a business decision. The photo was apparently taken at a Louisiana Walmart store. These dolls are on the shelf right next to Ballerina Teresa - the black doll - with a reduced price of $3. Photos first appeared on a Web site called showing Mattel's Ballerina Barbie - the white doll - with a price tag of almost $6. ![]() Walmart is under fire for selling black Barbie dolls at nearly half the price of white ones - in at least one store.
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