Wednesday, March 17, 2010

More Walmart Racism: Black Barbies At Half Price Of White Barbies

Walmart is  being blasted all over the news today for announcement over a New Jersey Walmat storey PA system telling all black customers to leave. Now I don't think Walmart is racist. They draw some crazy ass people to work and shop there. When you have that many stores and that many employees, someone somewhere is bound to do some stupid shizzle. However, you really don't hear all this crazy racist shizzle going on  atTarget and Macy's. What's the latest alleged racism at Walmart? A Walmart in Louisiana allegedly marked down black Barbies to almost half price as white Barbies. Daaaaamnnnn!! Oh Shizzle!

I thought racial views had improved under President Obama but it looks like things have gotten worse. Heck, even back in 1787 at the Philadelphia Convention, the Founding Fathers decided to at least give black slaves 3/5ths of a vote. That's a 40% markdown of a vote. Walmart priced white Barbies at $5.93 and the black Barbies at $3.00 represents a 49.5% markdown. Come on Walmart. The Founding Fathers in 1787 valued black slaves more than Walmart values black people today. Dammn!!!  The Huffington Post reports that Walmart's defense was that the tags were marked as clearance in preparation for new stock and the video linked on the site says that since fewer people were buying the product, it was marked down. This is troubling. Black women complain that black men tend to choose other races for dating and marriage and now even black families are not buying black female dolls. Ooohhh, it's tough to be a black woman this days.

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