Black rag dolls ...... MEANT ... to be abused get pulled from shelves

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Feel Better Dolls" on the shelf of a One Dollar Zone store in Bayonne, N.J.Angela McKnight via AP


They’re called “Feel Better Dolls.”

In the instructions, buyers are told to take the black rag dolls — which come with red, green, black and yellow hair made of yarn, styled in dreadlocks — and “find a wall to slam” them against.

“Whenever things don’t go well and you want to hit the wall and yell, here’s a little ‘feel better doll,'” the instructions read. “Just grab it firmly by the legs…and as you whack the ‘feel good doll’ do not forget to yell I FEEL GOOD, I FEEL GOOD.”

The toys were being pulled from shelves in New Jersey this week after sparking outrage among residents and state officials.

“This doll is offensive and disturbing on so many levels,” said Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, who represents Bayonne and other areas of Jersey City.

“It is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to ‘slam’ and ‘whack’ her,” the official charged in a statement. “Racism has no place in the world and I will not tolerate it, especially not in this district.”

The dolls were being sold at a One Dollar Zone store in Bayonne and at least two other locations across the Garden State, though it’s unclear where.

Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis blasted them as “insensitive” in a Facebook post this week — saying they “can certainly be considered racist.”

“Aside from the shock of seeing such an insensitive product being sold in our community, I am grateful for the people that saw it and said something immediately,” Davis said. “We will not tolerate any symbol of hate and division within our community! #WeAreBayonne.”

One Dollar Zone President Ricky Shah issued an apology after pulling the dolls Monday. The Paterson-based company was blaming their existence on a simple error of not checking a large shipment of new items — centered around an “I Love NY” theme — that had come into their stores recently.

“This somehow slipped through the cracks,” Shah said in a statement.

The manufacturer of the dolls — the Harvey Hutter Co., based in New York — couldn’t be reached Friday. Shah claimed that it appears to no longer be in business.

The company’s supplier, Global Souvenir Marketing, did not respond to requests for comment.


https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/black-rag-dolls-meant-to-be-abused-get-pulled-from-shelves/

 

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[Race Harley]

 

[THE DRIZZY]

No shame or respect what so ever. We need our own space as a people.

 

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Nobody’s getting the mental war fare yet. Hopefully the youth don’t fall for this shit. We on a good trajectory

 

[Heist]

“It is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to ‘slam’ and ‘whack’ her,” the official charged in a statement. “​

Some of y'all got some real unsettling, traumatic projection issues. You'll see racism in everything.

It's a JET BLACK doll with crazy ass colored yarn hair, no lips, and no gender and this is supposed to be a representation of black people? "her" - a genderless doll is now a "her"? She's given it a weaker sex based pro-noun? That's classic projection of her own latent trauma issues.

Yarn is dreadlocks? These are dreads too I guess?

 

[Heist]

Nobody’s getting the mental war fare yet. Hopefully the youth don’t fall for this shit. We on a good trajectory

Bruh, this isn't mental warfare. This was a straight up, silly overreach. I dislike this kind of stuff because throwing the race card at everything inevitably begins to dilute and weaken it's power for use when there are TRUE and LEGITIMATE issues of racism and bigotry.

It's the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome.

 

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Some of y'all got some real unsettling, traumatic projection issues. You'll see racism in everything.

It's a JET BLACK doll with crazy ass colored yarn hair, no lips, and no gender and this is supposed to be a representation of black people? "She" - a genderless doll is now a "she"?
That's classic projection of her own latent trauma issues.

Yarn is dreadlocks? These are dreads too I guess?

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Bruh, this isn't mental warfare. This was a straight up, silly overreach. I dislike this kind of stuff because throwing the race card at everything inevitably begins to dilute and weaken it's power for use when there are TRUE and LEGITIMATE issues of racism and bigotry.

It's the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome.

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So why not make the doll white? Yellow? Blue? …. Bad optics PERIOD !!!



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No shame or respect what so ever. We need our own space as a people.

Yes.

 

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So why not make the doll white? Yellow? Blue? …. Bad optics PERIOD !!!

Well, if I was making a throw doll, I would call my fabric supplier in China up and ask them to make it out of the cheapest yarn and fabrics they have lying around the factory. I'm going to guess input cost above all else had a factor - because business ...


Be that as it may, if you want to call it bad optics - that's fine. They can be honest and call it bad optics, but don't spin it up as racism and start attaching pronouns and shit to an inanimate un-gendered product.

 

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Bruh, this isn't mental warfare. This was a straight up, silly overreach. I dislike this kind of stuff because throwing the race card at everything inevitably begins to dilute and weaken it's power for use when there are TRUE and LEGITIMATE issues of racism and bigotry.

It's the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome.

Idk man. Very similar to them jockey lawn figures (minus the lips).
Instead Jamaican color hair.
Either way we need a different reaction.

 

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Well, if I was making a throw doll, I would call my fabric supplier in China up and ask them to make it out of the cheapest yarn and fabrics they have lying around the factory. I'm going to guess input cost above all else had a factor - because business ...


Be that as it may, if you want to call it bad optics - that's fine. They can be honest and call it bad optics, but don't spin it up as racism and start attaching pronouns and shit to an inanimate un-gendered product.

Then the cheapest would be undyed white ……..
Neeeeeeeeeext


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[Heist]

Idk man. Very similar to them jockey lawn figures (minus the lips).
Instead Jamaican color hair.
Either way we need a different reaction.

Historically, the best and most competitive professional race horse jockey's were black. From the late 1800s through the 1920s horse racing was the dominate sport in America, and we owned the sport.
It wasn't until the 1930's that we began to abandoned jockeying.

However, I see where you're coming from but also feel in this instance, it's pareidolia.

 

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Then the cheapest would be undyed white ……..
Neeeeeeeeeext
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White is not the natural color of fabric smh
It has to be chemically bleached, making it one of the more expensive ones to create. (Purple generally is the most expensive).

The natural color of of cotton based fabrics are is muslin or beige, however, the color isn't consistent like all natural things it has inconsistent throughout and it's harder to make fabrics lighter than it to make them darker.

 

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White is not the natural color of fabric smh
It has to be chemically bleached, making it one of the more expensive ones to create. (Purple generally is the most expensive).

The natural color of of cotton based fabrics are is muslin or beige, however, the color isn't consistent like all natural things it has inconsistent throughout and it's harder to make fabrics lighter than it to make them darker.

 

[Bluelaser]

What do you guys think about the above commercial ad that I've seen numerous times on television in the month of June and continued in this month of July.
Are they implying that Black Women pussies stink ? And my reasoning for questioning this is because I don't see any other race of women in this commercial ad besides the sistahs.
Maybe I'm over reaching but that's what I sense when I see this commercial.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Ain't cacs some bird shit

All these years and they cant make a "black" jesus flick..

But they could make a kick my ass "black" doll with tje ultra quickness

 

[Heist]

What do you guys think about the above commercial ad that I've seen numerous times on television in the month of June and continued in this month of July.
Are they implying that Black Women pussies stink ? And my reasoning for questioning this is because I don't see any other race of women in this commercial ad besides the sistahs.
Maybe I'm over reaching but that's what I sense when I see this commercial.

Black people: "There isn't enough black representation in commercials on TV!"

Also black people: "This commercial has only black people!"


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