Walmart- Black Ho's (Barbie) worth less than white Ho's- Beth gets DUmped on

[Tucker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7895771

Generic Other  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:12 PM
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Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store
   



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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.

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

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Decades after segregation and the civil rights movement, studies show Americans -- both black and white -- continue to internalize the heirarchical notion that lighter skin tone is considered "better than" darker, Wade said.

One landmark study revealing color hierarchies among black children took place in the 1940s. Run by the Clarks, Northside's founders, the study asked a group of black children to choose between playing with white dolls and black dolls; 63 percent chose the white dolls.

Last year, following the inauguration of the country's first black president, "Good Morning America" revisited the experiment. This time, at least some of the results were markedly different: of the 19 black children surveyed, 42 percent said they'd rather play with a black doll compared with 32 percent for the white doll. But when asked which doll was prettier, nearly half of the girls in the group chose the white doll.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/black-barbie-sold-white-...


I am speechless. Walmart does it again. Sad. How can we instill pride in children when they continue to receive messages like this? Wow.

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:19 PM
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2. Sometimes I think this country was a huge mistake AND irredeemable. n/t

NoNothing  (427 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:22 PM
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4. Clearance pricing is determined by just one thing:
   
Unit sales. This is a mountain out of an ant-hill, by people looking for reasons to be offended. People are blaming Walmart for the choices of the *customers.* If you want to point fingers, point them at the shoppers who let the black dolls sit on the shelves.

And hell, if it is a problem that too many black children are playing with white dolls, that the black dolls are sitting on shelves unsold, doesn't making black dolls less expensive *help*?

Not long for the DUmp.

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:26 PM
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11. Why should WalMart shoppers be blamed for WM's lousy buying decisions?
   
No, the consumers are not to blame here. WalMart has to make room in its crowded corporate mouth for one more foot.

Once again Beth shows how stupid she is.

NoNothing  (427 posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:34 PM
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20. What are you saying?
   
That Walmart should never have bought black dolls in the first place?

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:43 PM
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21. No, I'm saying the buyers did a bad job in the units they bought
   
and now the store is reduced to a public relations fiasco -- and one they could have handled better, at that. They could have taken the loss in a less public way if they gave a damn about their customers.

Is that more clear?

What did she say?

OneTenthofOnePercent  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:50 PM
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31. Why should they take a loss?
   
They should price the dolls as to what they are worth - just like every other item in the store.
These black dolls are receiving the exact same treatment a white doll would have had the white dolls failed to sell.
Wall mart prices thing at the value they are worth. Clearly, by definition, white dolls are more valuable to consumers.

This is not Wallmart's fault and they should not be expected to "take the losses" because of a few hypersensitive race warriors.

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:56 PM
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34. They've marked down their product, they are taking a loss.
   
They had a choice how to effect it and this is what they chose.

But you go on defending WalMart business practices and insulting people who attend to social justice. You'll do fine.

OneTenthofOnePercent  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 03:03 PM
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38. Walmart made the business savvy choice.
   
They could either leave them overpriced and never sell any or they could discount them to recoup some of the value.
Obviously, they feel they can make more in the end if they just mark them down. Better then throwing them out someday.
Also, keep in mind, @ $3 the doll may not be a loss. That doll might only cost Walmart $2.

I'm sure next time they'll purchase fewer wholesale black barbie dolls.
Then we hear the Race Warriors whine about how wall mart buys fewer black dolls and sells more white dolls.
Always something new!

Another lousy freeper mole.

apocalypsehow  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 04:00 PM
Response to Reply #38
58. True. But that poster thinks every day is 1965 in Selma, Alabama, and she's bravely doing "social
   
justice" with nonsense like braying for "equality" among Barbie dolls...

Referring to Beth.  

Turbineguy  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:22 PM
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5. It's to make them more
   
affordable to white bigots who practice voodoo?

Uzybone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:26 PM
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9. More misdirection
   
get outraged over Barbie doll prices while institutional racism marches on without a peep. This is another foolish topic from the M$M

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Thu Mar-11-10 02:28 PM
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13. When the white dolls get marked down, you'll have a point.
   
As it is, this is simply an expression of institutionalized racism and contempt.

She just doesn't know when to quit.

[BEG]

She has got to be a mole, no one can be that idiotic.....can they?

[Tucker]

She has got to be a mole, no one can be that idiotic.....can they?

Who. Doug's ex or the OP? If Doug's ex, yes she can. Not famaliar with the OP. She could live underground.

[The Village Idiot]

She has got to be a mole, no one can be that idiotic.....can they?

Sounds like they are gouging the white barbie buyers to me.

[The Village Idiot]

Couldn't possibly be that one product is selling better than another product??

[BEG]

Who. Doug's ex or the OP? If Doug's ex, yes she can. Not famaliar with the OP. She could live underground.

Doug's ex

[thundley4]

Sounds like they are gouging the white barbie buyers to me.

Yep, Walmart hates white people.

[BadCat]

Doug's ex

Yes, she is that stupid.

That is why frank and I refer to Doug as "the luckiest man in world".

[GOBUCKS]

EFerrari  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Mar-11-10 02:56 PM
But you go on defending WalMart business practices and insulting people who attend to social justice. You'll do fine.

How about some social justice for poor, stupid Beth's mother. Minding her own business, after losing her home and most of her possessions in the California real estate crash, the little old lady moved into that tiny camper on an abandoned goat farm, way out in the California desert. She was getting by, subsisting, making do with what she had. Then what happened? Her crazy middle-aged daughter gets booted from her apartment in queer-infested Frisco, and heads straight for the desert. So, not only does poor, stupid Beth move in on her, but she brings her two big smelly dogs along in the bargain. In a little humpbacked silver Airstream camper! Can't get any worse, can it? Not so quick, my friend! It can get worse, and it does. Not long after poor, stupid, crazy Beth moves in on the little old lady, here comes poor stupid Beth's deranged brother piling in with all his belongings. So we have three grown people, two of whom are mentally ill and at war with one another, two big smelly dogs, and one little old lady who was just minding her own business, all crammed into the little old lady's camping trailer out in the California desert. Why is poor, stupid Beth Ferrari worried about social justice for black Barbie dolls, and not for her mother?

[Tucker]

Doug's ex

As Frank would say, "She's the stupidest person in all of the internet." Or something like that.

[BEG]

Couldn't possibly be that one product is selling better than another product??

That's racist

[The Village Idiot]

lol

[kenth]

Poor stupid Beth; thought she was going to be the next Martin Luther Ken.

[Chris_]

That's racist

 

[franksolich]

Doug's ex

Of all the 5,000+ primitives on Skins's island, Doug's ex-wife, undeniably the stupidest person on the whole entire internet, is the primitive with whom I'm the most intimate.

It's almost as if we're married.

It happened because during the Scamdal five years ago, various people were "assigned" to check into each of the scamming primitives--assigned to read all of their internet postings, not to check on their non-internet lives--and I drew one long straw and one short straw, my fellow alum Skins and Doug's then-wife.

The person who got the Bostonian Drunkard later suffered brain paralysis, but that's another story altogether.

I get tired of Doug's ex-wife at times, and wish she'd just evaporate, but at the same time, I know that if that happened, there'd be a gap in this life.

[JohnnyReb]

hmmmmmm....wonder if they have nappy hair.









Just doing my best Don Imus....

[Tucker]

hmmmmmm....wonder if they have nappy hair.









Just doing my best Don Imus....

No. They're saving that for the Cynthia McKinney model.

[ColonialMarine0431]

There hasn't been this much ado about nothing since they discontinued
Cross-dressing Barbie.




At least we still have...

Anorexic Barbie


Bulimic Barbie


B&D Barbie


and Ghetto Barbie

[The Village Idiot]

lol

[USA4ME]

Generic Other

I am speechless. Walmart does it again. Sad. How can we instill pride in children when they continue to receive messages like this? Wow.

This is a basic problem with primitives.  After clearly saying "I am speechless," the primitive then goes on to say 21 more words.

Primitives, when you find yourselves speechless, which given your stupidity should be on the order of 100% of the time, stay that way and don't say anything.  Goodness, you dolts have to be coached on the most minor of things.

.

[The Village Idiot]

What message does the primitive think children are getting from this? or from where? parents?

[Tucker]

I didn't think that primitive shopped in Walmart. How would they see it?

[NHSparky]

I am speechless. Walmart does it again. Sad. How can we instill pride in children when they continue to receive messages like this? Wow.

This from the same people who claim minorities can't succeed on their own with out "hep".  Lowered admission standards.  Preferential hiring practices.  The list goes on.

Do they even recognize the hypocrisy of their own statements?

[Specbid]

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.

A photo first...shows packages of Mattel's Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Teresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Teresa dolls, which feature brown skin and dark hair, are marked as being on sale at $3.00. The Barbies to the right of the Teresa dolls, meanwhile, retain their original price of $5.93.

I think this is cool as $hit. I bought a bunch of them. I'll send them out with this year's kwanzaa cards. My friends will love it.

[AllosaursRus]

Of all the 5,000+ primitives on Skins's island, Doug's ex-wife, undeniably the stupidest person on the whole entire internet, is the primitive with whom I'm the most intimate.

It's almost as if we're married.

It happened because during the Scamdal five years ago, various people were "assigned" to check into each of the scamming primitives--assigned to read all of their internet postings, not to check on their non-internet lives--and I drew one long straw and one short straw, my fellow alum Skins and Doug's then-wife.

The person who got the Bostonian Drunkard later suffered brain paralysis, but that's another story altogether.

I get tired of Doug's ex-wife at times, and wish she'd just evaporate, but at the same time, I know that if that happened, there'd be a gap in this life.

Me thinks that "gap" would do more good than harm, Coach.