My little girls are into American Girl dolls. So we took them to the store. If you don't know anything about American Girl dolls, they are dolls with outfits, setups, and pets and shit just like Barbie I guess, but on top of that, they all have full on back stories with books and all kinda shit. It's crazy. What's cool is they have lots of different cultures represented. So if you got black daughters, you can take them to the store and there are plenty of different black dolls for them to choose from.
What fucked me up though was one of the black dolls is literally an escaped slave. Shit is kinda crazy. Like one of her accessories is the carriage she got away in or something like that. I don't know. It's one of those things that isn't really offensive because the whole point of that particularly line is to have dolls of each race that represent various time periods in American history. For example, another black doll representing the 60s is a Soul Singer/Civil Rights activist. So, the dolls are just reflecting the reality of our history in this country. Still, who the hell would buy their daughter the escaped slave doll?