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Posted on 06/16/2026 9:37:16 AM PDT by Salman
A new controversy has surfaced on our feeds. The Natasha doll trend revolves around a baby-shaped squeeze or stress-relief toy that some users, particularly on Chinese social media platforms, film themselves squeezing, slapping, stretching and roughly handling. What makes this so disturbing is that the doll is often dark-skinned, resembling an innocent Black baby.
Okayafrica was one of the first platforms to unearth Natasha, showcasing content creators violently manipulating the doll, often to the point of destroying the toy. Even more troubling, video footage highlighted by the outlet suggested that similar abusive behavior may be occurring with real children in Africa.
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"The Natasha Doll trend is not an anomaly. It is a mirror. When the world selects a Black child's image as its preferred object of violence, it confirms what Black beauty professionals have always known: that the dehumanization of Black people does not begin with a fist," stated Corey Huggins, founder of Ready to Beauty, an organization that preserves and promotes Black beauty and culture.
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Just create Natasha as a black unborn baby.
That should please the liberals just fine.
If people constantly look to be offended, they will inevitably be successful.
It they meant it to be black, they would have called it the “Kei’ashya” doll.
Merely a clump of cells as the ‘progressives’ say.
Or maybe a black baby in pieces. The libs would love that!
OMG who writes this horseshit
Natasha doll.
I remember Darkie Toothpaste from when we lived in Thailand 61-63.
Oh Moses smell the roses.
I don’t know; I find the image at the source article to be offensive; and I would regardless the skin color of the doll.
What sort of person thinks of making a ‘stress toy’ in the form of a human baby?
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China’s “Natasha” doll—a popular squishy decompression and stress-relief toy manufactured in China—does resemble Black babies and young children, often featuring dark skin and other racial characteristics.
The doll is produced in various skin tones; however, the versions designed with darker complexions have become the subject of significant online controversy. Many observers have noted a pattern where social media content depicts the mistreatment of these specific versions of the doll, which has led to widespread accusations of racial bias and insensitivity.
This phenomenon has drawn condemnation from civil rights advocates and community leaders globally. Critics argue that using a product that resembles a Black child as a target for stress relief is dehumanizing and perpetuates harmful stereotypes. The concern is that such behavior trivializes aggression toward specific demographic groups and has a negative psychological impact.
While the original Russian name Natsha traditionally means “born on Christmas” or “birthday”, it was adopted in this context as a generic-sounding foreign name for a product.
The same sort of person who forces female students to kiss each other in class and grades them on it?
lmao...
That’sa shame... (...snicker...)
I just looked it up. I expected the Natasha Doll to be made in Communist China.
And I was right. Those guys are always causing trouble of one sort or another.
Oh, and some of the dolls contained high levels of formaldehyde. That’s another ChiCom production thing.
Wait!
I thought us white Americans were the oppressors and haters? I mean, we invented African slavery, right? And them Jim Crow and Sunday church picnic lynchings...
Per the picture, they have Natasha in black and white.
T&R strongly suggested that the world's population has given itself over to spiritual possession. I have a terrible feeling that he is correct.
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