Walmart store sells Black Barbie for $3, White Barbie for $5.93

Posted by Barb Van Hoy

(http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/224187/Wal+Mart+Fail/)

Thanks to Diversity Consultant Jody Alyn and her student for this piece in her newsletter:

Is this a race-based business practice? A race-based buying practice? Or a sign of something else?

Check out the news story about Walmart and watch a video about oneĀ  news program’s effort to recreate Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s famous research on doll preference and racial identity.

Reprinted with permission.

The linked news story on ABC’s web siteĀ  is very thoughtful.

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