BBQ Trifecta bait. Black Barbie Sold for Less

[Jesus Christ]

it's really important that we as a company don't send a message that we value blackness less than whiteness This sounds like Ted Knight in Caddyshack. "Danny there's alot of badness in the world, ... The most important question you can ask yourself today Danny, is if you stand for goodness or badness?


Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store
Walmart Says Lower Sales of Ballerina Theresa Barbie Prompted the Price Cut
By ALICE GOMSTYN


Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll's white counterpart at one store and possibly others.

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A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel's Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Theresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Theresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Theresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93. The dolls look identical aside from their color.

Editors at Guanabee.com said the person responsible for the photo told the Web site that it was taken at a Louisiana Walmart store. The person did not return e-mails from ABCNews.com.

A Walmart spokeswoman, who could not verify the exact store shown in the photo, said that the price change on the Theresa doll was part of the chain's efforts to clear shelf space for its new spring inventory.
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"To prepare for (s)pring inventory, a number of items are marked for clearance, " spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien said in an e-mail. "... Both are great dolls. The red price sticker indicates that this particular doll was on clearance when the photo was taken, and though both dolls were priced the same to start, one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers."

"Pricing like items differently is a part of inventory management in retailing," O'Brien said.

But critics say Walmart should have been more sensitive in its pricing choice.

"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.


"While it's clear that's not what was intended, sometimes these things have collateral damage," Dye said.

Other experts agree. Walmart could have decided "that it's really important that we as a company don't send a message that we value blackness less than whiteness," said Lisa Wade, an assistant sociology professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the founder of the blog Sociological Images. contineud
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[bbqboy]

Maybe they'll issue a manger scene with jesus, sal, and kitten.

[Jesus Christ]

Maybe they'll issue a manger scene with jesus, sal, and kitten.

Hey BBQ ? That was actually kinda funny. But you didn't laugh when you thought of it did you ?

[Queue]

Try selling ham to Hebrews at regular prices.

Sensitivity should not breed ignorance.

[tvguy]

"Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store"

Yeah Walmart wanted to sell them off before they all got pregnant

[Jesus Christ]

Try selling ham to Hebrews at regular prices.

Sensitivity should not breed ignorance.

Hey they should have been obliged to give every girl of color their own Barbie free of charge , then this wouldn't be a topic of discussion. Not to mention the fact that if a person had a few girls and wanted black Barbies for them wouldn't a reduced price be a good thing? A marked down pair of pants ain't no use to me unless they fit.

[Willie Krash]

I don't eat ham. it makes me self conscious.

[Jesus Christ]

I don't eat ham. it makes me self conscious.

This is a case of white guilt conditioning more than anything.

[Queue]

I don't eat ham. it makes me self conscious.

I bet Imaham has real trouble with it.

[reelo]

Jeesh, it's basic economics. The one form of barbie isn't selling so you knock the price down to make room for other things. I mean, if it was evening goown barbie that was marked down because everyone wanted Malibu barbie-- no one would care, this is no different.

[bbqboy]

I don't eat ham. it makes me self conscious.

This is a case of white guilt conditioning more than anything.

Ham is Race specific?

[Willie Krash]

I don't eat ham. it makes me self conscious.

This is a case of white guilt conditioning more than anything.

Ham is Race specific?

I don't know. Verbs and nouns confuse me, but then again so does JC.

[bbqboy]

This is a case of white guilt conditioning more than anything.

Ham is Race specific?

I don't know. Verbs and nouns confuse me, but then again so does JC.

that should be your signature.

[Tia]

Ham is Race specific?

I don't know. Verbs and nouns confuse me, but then again so does JC.

that should be your signature.

I see you changed yours.

[Tia]

"Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store"

Yeah Walmart wanted to sell them off before they all got pregnant

No, that's ghetto teen Barbie.

Oh! Damn! Did I just say that???

[orygunluvr]

Come on tv, photoshop a keystone light and a gpc cig in her mouth.

[tvguy]

I was wondering when someone would comment on that post, Sal would have popped a vein in his head

[Jesus Christ]

I was wondering when someone would comment on that post, Sal would have popped a vein in his head

I think Sal is busy fighting other battles.

[PonderThis]

I was wondering when someone would comment on that post

I think it's a fine corporate gesture if they choose to make black dolls more affordable. What's the problem?

[bbqboy]

"Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store"

Yeah Walmart wanted to sell them off before they all got pregnant

No, that's ghetto teen Barbie.

Oh! Damn! Did I just say that???

Or
Central Point Barbie.