So in Style Dolls are SO Stereotyping

Ever since Obama became President, White people are fascinated by Blacks!  Funny, since we've been here all along.  Anyhow, here is a new product Mattel has launched to break into the black doll market:

Obviously, I have an opinion about this...here are some key concerns raised:

1. Why isn't a book or laptop one of the accessories?

2. Why does each doll come with a "little sister?" Seems more like a kid to me...

3.  Why are all the dolls light skinned, light eyed, and long haired?

4. Why is it called "So in Style?" Why not "So Well Educated?" "So INformed?"

5. Why is the product description written in what Mattel likely perceives as "black" instead of English?

6. Why are So in Style Barbies dressed like hoodrats?

7.  Why are So in Style Barbies only into fun, friends, and fashion?

8. Why is that ghettofabulous music playing in the background?

9. Why is Grace from Chicago?

Mattel...let me help you out...as an African American woman.

1. My primary "accessory" is my PDA

2.I volunteer, and the kids I help don't follow me. I've also beat the odds and at 24 don't have a kid.

3. My skin and eyes are dark...not "tan" and my hair isn't long or flowing...unless I get a weave done, but I can't even get into all that here.

4. I'm usually not in style, and I don't care.

5. I say the whole word and completely spell out the word "in"

6. I like wearing clothes, normally suits from the Limited and sweaters from Express, not hoodies and shorts or shrugs and tights

7. I'm not into fun and fashion...I'm into politics and reading.  I'm also into friends, but even more into networking

8. I listen to Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Shakira, Daddy Yankee, Whitney Houston, etc...so don't try to identify my blackness with R & B

9. All black people don't live in Chicago

As condescending as my list is, I'm trying to make a point and that is: stop stereotyping and calling it outreach.  And just because you got an African American to design the dolls, doesn't make them legitimate or politically correct.  (Yes, I know your best friend is black.)

Instead, why don't you talk to African-Americans rather than market them or market to them.

Oga-Booga-Obama?!

Oh the good ol' boys.  Check out the blog of Texas Fred.  It frightens me, especially the comments left by his followers.

I came across Texas Fred, while searching for the below photo, which lead me to this Miami Herald article.

Why ever would I, as an African-American, be offended by the photo of Obama, a President who is half Kenyan, depicted as a tribal person on this website? Silly me. *note: sarcasm.

Also, should you as Americans be concerned that this photo was passed around by Dr. David Kalip, a vocal opponent of Obama's healthcare plan, leader in the medical community, and practicing physician and surgeon? Well, for your convenience here are ways you can contact him and express yourself:

Doctor David McKalip

727-822-3500
727-822-3228 (FAX)
dmckalip@neuro3.net

Put your pitchforks down (but still feel free to email or call him), he's since resigned and admits to the St. Petersburg Times that "he was worried about the impact on his private medical practice" [referring to the fact that the world knows he, a doctor and medical leader, forwarded an offensive image to his closest gchat friends] and he also told the paper that he hopes to focus on community service, building on past work in African-American youth development...

I have a sneaking suspicion Doc that you're not welcome anymore in the African American community, I mean minorities compose a majority of the uninsured, so they can't afford to pay for your back peddling, I mean guilt, er rather community service.  Plus its highly probable that they can't afford your medical services either, so don't worry Dr. Kalip, I doubt you'll loose many patients.

Te quiero, impeachment

As a citizen of SC all I can do is wonder when Mark Sanford's Argentine mistress/baby mama?/mid-life crisis ho (who is ugly as sin, might I add) will say, in English of course (you didn't think that Mark speaks Spanish did you?) "Honey, you should resign and move back to Buenos Aires with me." Because honestly, the south is rising...again...against Mark Sanford.  The Ethics Commission is on his case like white on rice, get him boys!

Sanford Turns Over Ethics Investigation Documents | wltx.com

And people thought that SC was segregated! Nope, blacks and whites (because only two races reside in the state, obviously) all over can agree on this! Hopefully Mark Sanford is getting as nervous as a whore in church and maybe the legislative system can impeach him and get him on the first thing smoking out of South Carolina. I mean you should not disappear from the State you govern to have sex in another country, your life is not a romance novel, but we as a state are about to turn the page.

PS: Hope you guys enjoyed Southern euphemisms.