Afroamerican Discrimination still goes on… “Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store”

I was surffing in the web when I found this; A photo posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com 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.

When I read this I was shocked because its supoused that in our time, a time where The Pressident of United Stated is a black guy, afroamerican discrimination should be over, obviously, I was wrong…

I read many comments that blamed the supermarket, saying that the owner was White and racist, but actually, I think that the guilty is our, as a society, let me tell you why:

First of all, we have this “prototype of a perfect woman”, where blond, thin and tall is beauty, so someone different, isn´t perfect, and Little girls doesn´t wants to be unpretty, in a way, a girl wants to be reflected itself in a Barbie, they want to grow up and be like that little supermodel that their parents buy in stores.

How they will want to have a black Barbie if Every day we can see commercial creams and lotions for skin lightening? Even worse, I saw an experiment, where “black lilte girls” had to chose between a black and a withe doll and they chose the White doll because its “more beautiful”.

So discrimination begins with us, ourselves as a society teach to our children how to discrimitated, through tv shows, movies, musical videos, etc.

From my point of view, walmart has to put on sale this “black barbie” because it had less demand, but thats isn´t discrimination from the supermarket, it's, in fact, a result of our discriminatory society.

What did you think about this?...