Thread: Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White

"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.

"To prepare for Spring 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."
Walmart: Black Barbie Sold Cheaper Than White Barbie at Store - ABC News

How can you possibly get anything racist out of that?? The product was not selling....simple as that. To assume anything else is asinine. Stupidity is alive and flourishing in the U.S.

The American consumer is living on a budget these days... so to get the American consumer not to buy the white one they put a higher price on the white one.
Doesn't take a 'dummy' to figure that one out.

It must be "***** About Nothing Day." Why didn't I get the memo? I have plenty of nothing to ***** about.