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Showing Original Post only (View all)After father's anger, Target adjusts sales price of black Barbie doll [View all]
CINCINNATI -- Like many little girls, Warren Johnson's daughter wants a Barbie for Christmas.
Specifically, she wants a Barbie Fashion Maker African American doll, one of the hot new toys this holiday season.
"So, we went to the Target website and looked for her Barbie," Johnson said.
What Johnson, who goes by @jayven07 on Twitter, saw after typing in his search Sunday prompted the following tweet:
http://www.caller.com/news/watercooler/barbie-fashion-maker-doll-after-fathers-anger-target-adjusts-sales-price-of-black-barbie-doll
[font color=green]Yes, white Barbie is $23.49 and black Barbie is $49.99. Please commence discussion.[/font]
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After father's anger, Target adjusts sales price of black Barbie doll [View all]
TexasTowelie
Dec 2014
OP
Point being the other barbie is just known as "Barbie" not European-American barbie.
951-Riverside
Dec 2014
#12
WTF? They obviously wanted to be inclusive and you throw out an asinine attempt
KittyWampus
Dec 2014
#16
Funny how you latch onto "European-American" and not "White". Should the African American doll
KittyWampus
Dec 2014
#21
Kind of like Archie Bunker's two coworkers, "Black Elmo" and "Regular Elmo"
Gidney N Cloyd
Dec 2014
#24
The article explains it was an error by the store, a situation they quickly corrected. . .
Journeyman
Dec 2014
#2
Mattel had them both for $40 online, which makes both versions equally outrageously priced
Hekate
Dec 2014
#6
they're both normally the same price - the website put only the white doll on sale
TorchTheWitch
Dec 2014
#8
if it is "one of the hot new toys this holiday " then it's gonna cost more
belzabubba333
Dec 2014
#9
I don't think anybody will be buying that one for their 8-year-old daughter for Christmas!
Brigid
Dec 2014
#48
The video makes it clear that it was a pricing/systems error. Both dolls are on sale now.
MADem
Dec 2014
#29
The dad was right to make that phone call. He got immediate action, which was good.
MADem
Dec 2014
#33
We don't need to turn over rocks to find racism, it is all over the place
Bjorn Against
Dec 2014
#41
It makes no sense that they would sell one at a different price than the other.
Jamastiene
Dec 2014
#45