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Toy Stories....
I was blessed, by God, to have a child the day after Christmas. Since then, every Christmas, I wander frantically through stores shopping for Christmas gifts and birthday gifts. I decided to give my daughter what almost every little girl wants for Christmas a Barbie. As I was walking throught the Barbie isle at Wal-Mart, to my shock and disbelief, was a pregnant Barbie who happened to be Black (no other races available mind you)! I was totally flabbergasted! She had no "husband" or story line that instituted that. (I thought Barbie and Ken were single!)The belly came off and inside was a baby. Now, I tried to look at this from all angles but I thought it was down right tacky and an insult. I came back days later and it had been removed from the shelf. Even though this took the cake, other dolls were just too provocative and geared toward the teen/adult woman.
What happened to Betsy Wetsy? Raggedy Ann? Cabbage Patch?
Are dolls going to far? What do you think?
BTW, there is an AA trivial pursuit and a What I am going to be when I grow up board game that's reaaallly nice.
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