Here Are 4 African American Barbie Dolls that Broke Barriers

Fusion ^ | 19 Feb 14 | Zara Stone

[Cicero]

I sense that she is trying to say, “Barbie for President!”

[fella]

Barbie Doll

[GOP_Party_Animal]

The diversity cheerleader that wrote this article neglected one important statistic: How did these dolls sell?

[Gaffer]

Ha...I have no data point on that except to say that my daughter when she was younger never wanted one.

I remember buying a full set of dolls for one of my grand daughters like this (7 or 8 of them) that included a black doll, but she never played with it from what my daughter tells me....I guess she’s racist....:o)

[Old Yeller]

Do they all have Obamaphones they can use to video their mob of boyfriends beatin up on crackas?

[Gaffer]

I remember SNL’s Tupac Barbie...came with a baby stroller, a forty, some Newports, and a restraining order for baby-daddy

[Fresh Wind]

Bratz Slutz

[Impala64ssa]

When we first got married, my lovely wife worked at a Toys R Us during the height of the Cabbage Patch craze. A couple of Clarkstown, NY finest had to patrol the parking lot during that time to control the lunacy over these dolls. And when they released the first Black Cabbage Patch dolls, things really went nuts over their. And it was WHITE people who fought each other over them. The Blacks thought it was hilarious.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Where’s the Queen Latifah model?

[atomic conspiracy]

The black version of GI Joe was introduced early enough (late 1964) that it was originally called "GI Joe, Negro." No big deal was made out of it and it was a long generation ahead of black Barbie.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Iron Munro]

The diversity cheerleader that wrote this article neglected one important statistic: How did these dolls sell?

[SMARTY]

What no picture of “O”?

[Iron Munro]

Black Barbie Dolls Coming Next:

“Welfare Baba’kwasheniqua” and “Knockout Kenyatta’vontay”

[Charles Martel]

LOL at the “inaugural” (black widow) dress.

[KMG365]

What, no afro?

[Billthedrill]

What “barriers”? Did anyone in the industry ever use the phrase, “No, you can’t make a doll who’s black”?

[Organic Panic]

There’s just no pleasing some people.

They tried making the Moochelle Obama but they ran out of plastic halfway down.

[wny]

One Barbie doll that didn’t sell too well was Divorce Barbie, it came with all of Ken’s things.