Black Twitter Slams New Black Barbie Doll For Her ‘Embarrassing’ Cornrows And ‘Ratchet’ Blonde Weave

Isn’t that a legit contemporary hairstyle?

Can’t she have a little flava?

Yes, there are many more substantial issues to confront out there.

But the Twitterverse isn't wrong: everything about this poor doll, the dress, the make-up, and especially, the hair is just GODAWFUL bad.

Maybe it would look better if the hair was all black rather than two-time.

two-tone*

The hair is bad...but that denim ensemble - YIKES.

you've got to be kidding me. people are offended with a dolls hairstyle? It's not like they wouldn't let her have a Corvette and gave her a bus pass instead.

What is the issue.

Hasn't Mary J. Blige had that same hairstyle for like 25 years now?

It’s possible that those people are just poking fun at it. They may not necessarily be “outraged.” All of those dolls have terrible hair, tbh.

In this political climate, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mattel was especially careful with designing this doll and had only African American doll designers working on it and African American executives giving the “final approval” before the doll went into production—not only to not offend anyone in the AA community, but to protect themselves against any potential claims of “racism” with this doll in any way when it was released.

I have a hard time believing that a major company would release an ethnic doll of any kind on a whim and without a lot of cooperation with members of that particular ethnic group—especially in this day and age where everybody and everything seems to be called “racist” at lest once on Twitter....

If this doll was created and approved by African American designers at the company, can people still be upset and “outraged” about it?

That was the May 2018 Barbie. She's come a long way, baby.

Lol, R7! That would be very offensive...

I'm gonna need to see this outrage somewhere besides Twitter before I give a fuck.

Twitter is cancer.

Some people have more time than brains.

Americans just can’t be happy unless they aren’t outraged about something. The most prosperous nation on earth and have to complain complain complain.

[QUOTE]Americans just can’t be happy unless they aren’t outraged about something. The most prosperous nation on earth and have to complain complain complain.

These people send out thousands of tweets a day and this is the only one you’ve seen. How do you know they only complain?

Do they still sell those trashy-slutty Bratz?

Is "black twitter" a thing?

What’s the hashtag? There has to be a clever, pithy hashtag. This is 2019 after all.

Gangsta Bitch Barbie from SNL.

[QUOTE]What’s the hashtag?

There is no hashtag because nobody really cares about it.

I’m going to play with the white Barbies at Buckingham Palace! JEALOUS, BITCHES?

Firstly: No, you either wear braids or the blonde weave, not both. Secondly: putting blonde hair on a black doll is strange. Thirdly: Having the side of your head shaved isn't the same as braids. This hairstyle looks ridiculous.

So many rules and regulations associated with a plastic toy.

^ Not that many rules, just don't be stupid. R25

It's not Black Barbie, it's Cultural Appropriation Barbie.

That’s MISS BARBIE ROSS to you!!

Go to any inner city neighborhood and youll see blonde hair so much you'll think your in Minnesota. The braided part is what makes this look so cheesy.Go one or the other,like someone else said.

I don’t like her look but... I see plenty of blank women in my neighborhood with blonde hair as well as combinations of different hair colors. The combo of long hair and shaved or cornrowed or braided is also not that unusual.

Actually, this black Barbie looks more put together than many of the women I see on the bus.

The was black, not blank!

Are they under the impression that the hair on the white Barbies is what white women's real hair looks like? Or what white women actually look like? Welcome to the world of female misrepresentation in toy world.

The combination of long hair and cornrows is unusual. I'm black and I've never seen that in public. I've only seen that look while a black women is in the middle of getting her hair done. Putting blonde hair on a black doll is strange. It doesn't matter how many black women in real life have blonde weaves.

This story is old....but, just go to Atlanta and you can't shake a stick without seeing beautiful black women with his hairstyle....nothing wrong with it, Besides, I guarantee it was designed by a black person, Mattel wouldn't be stupid to let a white person design it.

Already purchased.

Whoever greenlit Ghetto Barbie be in trouble.

Is her name Secretia and is a basket of chicken wings her accessory? That would be offensive.

Does all that ragging make me a rag doll?

"Make Me A Sandwich" Barbie and Ken

I see haircuts on black women like that one regularly. I’m surprised no one objected to painting a standard Caucasian featured Barbie doll in blackface, though.

Mattel should get up to date

Sigh. You never can win.

R42 If they'd make the lips bigger then I'm sure Black Twitter would call it 'racist' as well.

Full lips aren't racist. It depends how big the lips are. R42

Jesus Christ. It must be demoralizing to read the comments online about yourself when you're black.

[quote] It must be demoralizing to read the comments online about yourself when you're black.

Really? And why do you suppose that would be?

Everybody be all up in black Barbie's grill.

R48 look at any comments section on an article about the arrest of a black man, then do the same with the arrest of a white man. The difference between those two will more than answer your question.

Why won't black people stop saying "ratchet"?

Black Barbie is my aesthetic and spiritual role model.

I don't see anything wrong with it. Watch Real Housewives of Atlanta and I'll bet you'll see something even more ratchet. Hell the Doll's hair is better than most of Nene's styles over the years.

[quote]Black Barbie is my aesthetic and spiritual role model.—Beyonce

Plastic on the outside, hollow on the inside.

r50 knows that blacks are 8x more violent than whites, but he still prefers to be outraged that blacks have a worse reputation than whites.

WTF is with the low-key RAHOWA shit being posted here? Go suffocate in your white hoods.

r52 Beyonce is literally a barbie doll.

[quote]Is "black twitter" a thing?

R19, if it's characterized as "Black Twitter," you can be sure it's anything but. Twitter largely consists of alt-right and Russian trolls, who are either paid or otherwise highly motivated to impersonate minorities on social media.

Just like there's quite a few here on the Datalounge who are impersonating gays. Badly.

I mean, it IS poorly manufactured and it's not in style at all, so I can see why there would be complaints, but when I go out to Twitter looking for those complaints they're hard to find.

Don't think "black Twitter" is really up in arms about this at all.

R59 they are up in arms over soo many things hard to keep track

is that for real? is the dolls name Cletorious?

So tiresome.. all this crap falls on deaf ears for me. Always complaining and bitching about something...

I left Twitter because most of it is trolls, bots and assholes. It had its redeeming qualities once upon a time, but now it is just nasty.

R63with tumblr gone it’s literal assholes( and dicks) as well

Remember the "Digital Divide"?

White people had more access to the internet than the black community, and this was seen as a problem that white America aggressively tried to solve.

It wasn't worth it.

Another brand completely ruined by bowing to SJW activism. It's been going on for a while (can't discount the black Barbies that obviously don't sell as well as the standard Barbie because that's racist or something). Caving in to make Fat Barbie was just the final nail in the coffin.

Barbie is a global brand, easily recognizable, and no matter how much they try to diversify the line with a million different races/body types/hair styles (even a frauey blue haired fat hipster ones) people will just bitch and bitch and bitch until the end of time. They need to keep branching out into their media lines; Toy Story 3 Barbie/Ken was a huge boon for them, and the Life in the Dreamhouse line did well.

Anyway, I think the Barbie's hair is cool and different (outfit is trashbag ugly though) but again these activist types will never be satisfied.

Tell me this: would Beyonce Barbie be black or white? Thoughts? Would Beyonce Barbie have a flat ass, and a butt pad accessory (sold separately, obv)?

To be clear, to create an accurate Beyonce Barbie as far as shape, she must have a flat ass. And be so full of shit she uses ass pads.

Here's a legit awesome black Barbie (shoes are fucking godawful). But that isn't exciting anymore. We need hijab Barbies to show how TRULY progressive we are otherwise Mattel is just the WORST!!!

The best Ratchet Barbie!

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Is the black doll supposed to be trans? What's with the jawline?

I recall a woman at a TedX talk - she was making dolls that looked more like the community so they were all shades. It was beautiful. What Mattel hath wrought is like something out of the fevered imaginings.

Why is her chin so pronounced?

R76 they used Ciara as a template.

Dear Santa, Please bring me a Sharkeisha La'Qwan'da Barbie.

R70 that looks like a Robert Tonner doll. They're all hideous and have been sculpted to look like they have major attitude problems.

Maybe they should have a bald, black Barbie. Then, have different wigs to choose to their liking.. lol.

That fat Barbie @ r69 is an embarrassment.

Diahann complained that her Julia doll looked like all the other Barbies.

"I have a hard time believing that a major company would release a [n ethnic] doll of any kind on a whim and without a lot of cooperation with members of that particular [ethnic] group"

Um, hello?

Making black dolls is a lose-lose proposition.

Don't be ridiculous, r85!

Black people with blonde hair looks really terrible. I feel like they did on purpose to make the barbie look ugly.

R83 Diahann's doll looked like all the other dolls because (typically, predictably) Mattel went the cheap route and use the already existing "Christie" head mold to create the "Julia" doll.

And the beautiful "Christie" head is simply an Africanized sculpt of the original 1950s issue Barbie sculpt, right down to the pronounced, sculpted eyelids.

She also said at one point that she remembers Mattel designers taking pictures and measurements of her face for the doll sculpt, so it isn't surprising that she'd complain about getting the "Christie" head with a new paint deco.

It could've been worse; you should see what Mattel did to Twiggy under the same circumstances. Yikes.

OP’s picture shows Asian Barbie, White Barbie, and Black Barbie. Where is the Latinx Barbie?

No way is that an Asian.

Latin barbie would be more controversial, most latinos are mixed, some are white and some are black, there's no way you're going to appease all three demographics, someone is gonna get pissed.

That is an Asian with blonde hair.

For many years they have had the Hispanic "Teresa" doll and no one has complained.

There have been many Latina Barbies.

They mestiza or just white ?

R92 And how can you tell she’s Asian ?

Mestiza, r95? They're vinyl and plastic. They aren't real. They are generic representations of a wide swath of populace. No one is required to make them that specific. You get a white one, a black one, a Hispanic one, and an Asian one. Those are the options.

Latina Barbies...

R97 OMG, are you telling me they're not real ? I had no fucking idea.

Is there a black Ken for black barbie ? Or she has no choice ?

[quote]Is there a black Ken for black barbie ? Or she has no choice ?

This really happened, it's not a parody.

[quote][R92] And how can you tell she’s Asian ?

Compare her eyes and nose to the white Barbie in the middle. Flatter nose and face, smaller eyes.

R102 But the other girl has a flatter chest

Does Ken have a Dick & balls yet? Or were they strangely ahead of the game at predicting the future as genderless?

Trans Barbie

^^ Dont even want to open that link

NBA Barbie, formerly

I have to admit the idea of a rachet Barbie with interchangeable weaves cracks me the fuck up. r70 😆

[quote]The combination of long hair and cornrows is unusual. I'm black and I've never seen that in public.

Since we have already mentioned Beyonce in this thread, I'll go ahead and post a picture of her from the "Baby Boy" music video, with a very similar hairstyle. The cornrows/long hair combo was HUGE in the early 2000s, so why people are saying it's so unusual Im not sure.

Looks like NeNe.

Why don't they just call it a Nicki Minaj doll?

I saw this thread earlier today, but I wasn't going to comment. Then, I ran errands and saw two black women with this exact hairdo. Bonus, one of them was wearing a denim dress. I wish I had taken a pic.

Coolest Barbie Ever!