How far will political correctness go?

If you shopped at the Corinth, MS WalMart around Christmas time you'd think Mattel had quit making white Barbies.....

So....What's Wally World sayin'? That black Barbies aren't worth as much as white Barbies? That ain't right.

nope, they are worth the same to them, probably around 30 cents a unit, white or black. The bottom line, what is selling and making them a profit for the space it is occupying. If it isnt selling, they will mark them down to get rid of them. Last year, I got some foam pool items dirt cheat, were they being critical to the foam over the inflatable toys? Its called marketing.

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Originally posted by RickyC31:
nope, they are worth the same to them, probably around 30 cents a unit, white or black. The bottom line, what is selling and making them a profit for the space it is occupying. If it isnt selling, they will mark them down to get rid of them. Last year, I got some foam pool items dirt cheat, were they being critical to the foam over the inflatable toys? Its called marketing.

Exactly.

I didn't see anyone complain when Disney lowered the price on all of their dolls except the Tiana ones at Christmas time. I had to pay $25 bucks for that doll when the other princess's were on sale for 2 for 20.

With all the real issues in the world, a price of a doll is not even in the top one million.

And to tell you the truth, all my daughters dolls are black or brown. If she didn't drag them on the ground and leave them outside maybe they would be black, white, Asian, ect like when I bought them.

"The implication of the lowering of the price is that's devaluing the black doll," said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem, N.Y. organization founded by pioneering psychologists and segregation researchers Kenneth B. Clark and Marnie Phipps Clark.

i would think that 0 sales was what devalued them.

When I get things for my daughter, like dolls and toys, I usually look at the lower costing items first.

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Originally posted by tcf531:
"The implication of the lowering of the price is that's devaluing the black doll," said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem, N.Y. organization founded by pioneering psychologists and segregation researchers Kenneth B. Clark and Marnie Phipps Clark.

i would think that 0 sales was what devalued them.

I do hope that no tax funded grants are goint to Ms Dye. Better it should go to feed some hungry kids in Harlem. She must have run out of something for research purposes, i.e. a job provider). Again, this time would be better spent in a soup kitchen.

I would've thought feminism would have put an end to all this Barbie doll stuff anyway.

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Originally posted by earthmomma:

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Originally posted by tcf531:
"The implication of the lowering of the price is that's devaluing the black doll," said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem, N.Y. organization founded by pioneering psychologists and segregation researchers Kenneth B. Clark and Marnie Phipps Clark.

i would think that 0 sales was what devalued them.

I do hope that no tax funded grants are goint to Ms Dye. Better it should go to feed some hungry kids in Harlem. She must have run out of something for research purposes, i.e. a job provider). Again, this time would be better spent in a soup kitchen.

But acting as a socially-designated scold is sort of employment.

Seriously...how many black kids play with a ...Doll?
Or for that matter...how many of ANY kids play with a doll?
Barbies are for "Mothers" wanting to re-live their childhood...

Mine does. My sisters and their friends did. All of my nieces play with dolls too.

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Originally posted by earthmomma:

"The implication of the lowering of the price is that's devaluing the black doll," said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem, N.Y. organization founded by pioneering psychologists and segregation researchers Kenneth B. Clark and Marnie Phipps Clark.

Ms. Dye should spend less time on market research and more time on grammar lessons. FWIW, is it 'racist' to refer to the Barbies in question as 'black', rather than 'African-American'?

Nah. I doubt they were made in Africa. I don't think it'd be racist to call them "black." Most black people I know refer to themselves as black. One guy even told me that in AAVE, "African-American" is just too darn many syllables to have to keep repeating.

Eesh. It's gettin' to where I gotta carry a PC dictionary just so I can make sure I'm calling people the currently acceptable term... I like "Hey, You!" better. It's short and sweet and it covers everybody.

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Originally posted by Road Puppy:
Nah. I doubt they were made in Africa. I don't think it'd be racist to call them "black." Most black people I know refer to themselves as black. One guy even told me that in AAVE, "African-American" is just too darn many syllables to have to keep repeating.

Eesh. It's gettin' to where I gotta carry a PC dictionary just so I can make sure I'm calling people the currently acceptable term... I like "Hey, You!" better. It's short and sweet and it covers everybody.

Works for me. People who keep screaming about tearing down (imaginary) fences should refrain from continually trying to put them up.