(Newser) – Wal-Mart has dropped the price of a black Barbie doll in a move that's raising a ruckus. "Both are great dolls," carefully emphasized a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. But the price was cut $2 for a black Ballerina Teresa Barbie from the $5.93 for the white version because the black Barbies weren't selling. "Pricing like items differently is a part of inventory management in retailing," said the spokeswoman. But a Harlem activist warned that such a strategy in this case "can have collateral damage."
The "implication of lowering the price is that it's devaluing the black doll," said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development. Wal-Mart could have decided "that it's important we don't send a message that we value blackness less than whiteness," said Los Angeles sociology professor Lisa Wade. Ironically, Wade pointed out, the black dolls may not be selling as well because white parents are more reluctant than blacks to buy dolls of a different race for their children.
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Rabbi Spincter, I order you to go to dictionary.com, look up three words. Provoke, istigate, incite, stir-up, agitate, because that's precisely what you're doing with that Barbi inflamitory dialogue. Now, stop it.
This is way disgusting. San Onofre Surf Beach has been swamped with visitors from a foreign land who relis feasting in cats and dogs. The Rangers recovered remaains of two domestic pets ready to be BBQ'd at the beach. Something must be done before there are no animals remaining.
They're paying people to take the Mexican Barbie!
I'm waiting for them to sell the black "Chattie Kathy" doll. Pull her string and she says; Kiss my black booty, I'll cap your white ass and wheres the crack house you mo-fo!
I'll trade two white Murphys for one Pretzel and I'll toss in Putzels dresses.
That black doll doesn't look so black. It definitely can't be classified as a darkie. But it doesn't look like a beaner doll. Ask BK,he's the one with a kid. He's probably at the toy store right now. Or The Trader.
WTF does this have to do with surf'n..hey bro pass me that dog leg.
You guys are not funny. This blog's title is San-O Daze, it's supposed to be about days at San Onofre not about BK or rabbis or reverends, no, just days at old 'Nofre. Now, pay attention, damn it.
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