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The History of Black Barbie

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  • Опубликовано: 3 сен 2023
  • It took more than 20 years for the first Black barbie to be introduced, but she’s had a profound impact on the world - here’s how.
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Комментарии • 203

  • @Anna.Mason151
    @Anna.Mason151 11 месяцев назад +29

    Barbie was a Product model based on the creators own daughter, who happens to be white and being white does not mean you are racist. There was a need for women of all cultural back grounds to have more choice. That is what Barbie was suppose to advocate acceptance for and inspire. The journey is not finished. Also Please give your Doll a Name.

    • @jaym4479
      @jaym4479 11 месяцев назад

      These Marxists believe if you're born white, you're inherently racist. They literally believe (white) babies are racist. They're insane.

    • @agoogleuser402
      @agoogleuser402 11 месяцев назад +1

      @clotshot9459 what has this got to do with anything?????

    • @gobogoo2329
      @gobogoo2329 11 месяцев назад

      @clotshot9459 superior ability to develop skin cancer too

    • @vaticancitybride7137
      @vaticancitybride7137 14 дней назад

      @@agoogleuser402 The politicization of everything!

  • @jaym4479
    @jaym4479 11 месяцев назад +17

    Lol, first blk Barbie doll was in 1968, less than 10 yrs after Barbie first launched, but they get around this by saying, "not just Barbie's friend". This channel is so lame.

    • @CChrist-mh4mk
      @CChrist-mh4mk 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nope. First black Barbie was 1980. Sorry you hate facts.

    • @whateverwhatever4026
      @whateverwhatever4026 11 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@CChrist-mh4mkNope, 1968: Christie. And Julia before that. And Francie' in 1966. Sorry you hate facts.

    • @CChrist-mh4mk
      @CChrist-mh4mk 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@whateverwhatever4026 that’s not Barbie. Sorry you hate facts.

    • @whateverwhatever4026
      @whateverwhatever4026 11 месяцев назад

      @@CChrist-mh4mk They are, you just hate facts, so you cry your hypocritical catchphrase everywhere you go.

    • @jaym4479
      @jaym4479 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@CChrist-mh4mk NY history museum: "When was first blk Barbie?" - "Talking Christie - Introduced in 1968, Talking Christie is the first African American doll created for the Barbie line."
      You should look things up before running your mouth.

  • @WakandaleezaRazz
    @WakandaleezaRazz 11 месяцев назад +12

    Represent me, kangs ✊🏿🏀

    • @adey126
      @adey126 11 месяцев назад

      Imagine having a whole channel dedicated to hating black ppl in 2023. Pathetic.

  • @leahs.1480
    @leahs.1480 11 месяцев назад +10

    This video is purposefully ignoring the really interesting toy history that is Barbie. You see at first Barbie was only supposed to be the first in a long line of dolls with individual specs and personalities. After Barbie came Ken, then Midge, then Skipper, then Christie, then Brad and so on and so forth. BUT in the late 1970s Mattel realized that children weren’t really differentiating between the characters, if it was a Barbie doll it was just “Barbie” so in 1980, they just scrapped the idea of separate characters and if it was an adult human female, it was just labeled “Barbie”. That’s why the first Black, the first Hispanic, the first Asian and the first disabled “Barbies” all came out in 1980. It’s not because Mattel was ignoring those demographics before then, it’s because they changed the labeling of their dolls.

  • @FritzSchober
    @FritzSchober 11 месяцев назад +12

    Why is black barbie so super ultra slim with a giraffe neck? How is that representative at all?
    Why not make a new line of dolls for girls that are all black and have a single white token friend?
    How is trying to turn Barbie after 20 years into something else the right way to go?

    • @PaperMario64
      @PaperMario64 11 месяцев назад +2

      Have you seen African women?

    • @michaelmaps2004
      @michaelmaps2004 11 месяцев назад +3

      She is an East African Maasai Barbie lol

    • @edmunddantes7097
      @edmunddantes7097 11 месяцев назад

      A white guy trying to tell others what should be done, shocker. I think I’ll just listen to the people who are black that appreciate the change instead. Keep trying to cope, you make us laugh with your meltdowns.

    • @pwatson5766
      @pwatson5766 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​​@@michaelmaps2004
      Why LOL? It isn't farfetched!

    • @pwatson5766
      @pwatson5766 11 месяцев назад +1

      I can tell you have a stereotype of what a Black woman looks like! You should get out more. (My white neighbor surely isn't representative of what Barbie looks like! 😂)

  • @loriparks8657
    @loriparks8657 11 месяцев назад +11

    A childhood friend of mine still have the original when it went on the market the first black Barbie doll still in mint condition unseal in the Box she has two of them and people are offering her big money for them . I'm not talking about the one that came out in 1980 I'm talking about the one came out in 1968 Christine .

    • @jackaljade
      @jackaljade 11 месяцев назад +2

      Wow, they had a black (Barbie?) doll in 1968?? That's amazing. They had diversity and inclusion even then.

  • @adey126
    @adey126 11 месяцев назад +2

    Love this. I also like how it’s just now being reintroduced with the Take Two series.

  • @PaperMario64
    @PaperMario64 11 месяцев назад +17

    Thank you to Miss Buelah for working hard to give us black girls a Barbie with different skin tones and hair styles.

  • @latonyajefferson9699
    @latonyajefferson9699 11 месяцев назад +18

    My mother rarely bought me white dolls. My first Barbie and every one after was black, even if it took her months to find one. My relatives weren't allowed to give me white dolls either. If one did, she would take it and exchange it for a black one at the store of purchase. To memory, I owned only two white dolls: a Cabbage Patch Kid that I had to have for a ballet recital and Rainbow Bright (my favorite cartoon at the time).
    It wasn't until I was a teenager that I understood the why to her insistence. I am grateful to her for that, as it confirmed to me as a child that I could be fun, fiesty, and fashionable and still be black. I didn't need to change what I am to be who I am.
    We all need that confirmation in life.

    • @michaelmaps2004
      @michaelmaps2004 11 месяцев назад +6

      Wow seems like you had a great mom. Well done to her

    • @mjkay8660
      @mjkay8660 11 месяцев назад +3

      i hated dolls cuz none of them looked like anything i wanted to be or like any kids in my school of mixed heritages.

    • @sonja4164
      @sonja4164 11 месяцев назад +3

      That's awesome!

    • @WakandaleezaRazz
      @WakandaleezaRazz 11 месяцев назад +8

      Oh lawddddd yo mama Pookeisha was racist

    • @whateverwhatever4026
      @whateverwhatever4026 11 месяцев назад +1

      Ma'am, first of all you're inconsistent. Was it just as easy as an exchange, and all your dolls were Black or did it take months to find because they're that rare? Pssst, we know the answer.
      Second, your mom was racist af and instead of letting her kid just have fun and learn that color doesn't matter, she instilled her backwards ideals into you. When the only thing that was needed was telling you that skin colors don't matter. Sad.

  • @truthache8560
    @truthache8560 11 месяцев назад +13

    So it’s not enough to be included? Cultural Appropriation is the only way to make it fair it seems. LOL oh the irony!

    • @PaperMario64
      @PaperMario64 11 месяцев назад

      Please shut up. If the tables were turned you’d be having a fit.

    • @edmunddantes7097
      @edmunddantes7097 11 месяцев назад

      Barbie is a toy, not a culture you silly git. She’s not really an astronaut, teacher, scientist or doctor either.

    • @AngelAngel-so9rz
      @AngelAngel-so9rz 11 месяцев назад +2

      Totally. And it’s so desperate when people appropriate.

    • @truthache8560
      @truthache8560 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@AngelAngel-so9rz LOL right?! Braids and cornrows were first found on Greek Crete. Just a lot of ignorant liars getting away with it.

    • @jackaljade
      @jackaljade 11 месяцев назад +3

      Cultural appropriation works only one way to these ppl, like how they say B ppl can't be racist. (These ppl are Karlists.) And they don't even apply cultural appropriation equally for W ppl. The other day I asked why Eminem gets away with appropriating B music and rap, and they all defended him because he shares their social and political beliefs.

  • @Ps05205
    @Ps05205 11 месяцев назад +1

    Black barbie cost less than white😂

  • @jazzman.
    @jazzman. 11 месяцев назад +7

    Funny story:
    When my daughter was little, instead of switching her Barbies' cloths she would just change their heads. When finished she would line the heads up separate from the bodies. I had been on several military deployments and needles to say... I was scared shitless to go into her room for a long time.

  • @aliciarobinson4107
    @aliciarobinson4107 11 месяцев назад +3

    My momma, my aunt and their cousin were Black Barbies! Most beautiful Black ladies in the county. ❤❤❤

  • @agoogleuser402
    @agoogleuser402 11 месяцев назад +6

    1980??? I recall seeing black Barbies in the u.s. in the 70s...yes the Christie and the Julia barbie 1969 based on Diahann Caroll.

    • @adey126
      @adey126 11 месяцев назад +2

      They were called Barbie as in the name. That’s the difference here

    • @agoogleuser402
      @agoogleuser402 11 месяцев назад

      @@adey126 there was also the coloured Francie Barbie of 1967 which is the first dark-skinned Barbie doll

    • @adey126
      @adey126 11 месяцев назад +1

      The point is that every girl doll is Barbie and every boy doll is Ken. To be inclusive that everyone no matter the race disability is a Barbie/Ken.

    • @agoogleuser402
      @agoogleuser402 11 месяцев назад

      semantics@@adey126

  • @kimberlydmartin3533
    @kimberlydmartin3533 11 месяцев назад +4

    This is my first time hearing about a black Barbie. And I am 61 years old

    • @mjkay8660
      @mjkay8660 11 месяцев назад +1

      lol, be glad u r young enuf to learn. i learn im forgetting a different thing every day.

  • @mjkay8660
    @mjkay8660 11 месяцев назад +3

    my sis has a black baby doll she acquired in about 1954. black barbie was not the first black doll. it was 1 of 2 black fashion dolls as this vid states

    • @adey126
      @adey126 11 месяцев назад +1

      Barbie is different from a baby doll.

  • @ghostprince4284
    @ghostprince4284 11 месяцев назад

    Meh,Sasha From Bratz Is Way More Iconic.

  • @gregcorsten2056
    @gregcorsten2056 11 месяцев назад +6

    Don't let Ben Shapiro find out. I think he has some of his matches left.

  • @seanmccartney5177
    @seanmccartney5177 11 месяцев назад +2

    There is a human tragedy unfolding in Maui but Barbie is much more important

    • @adey126
      @adey126 11 месяцев назад

      Does the world stop just bc ppl die? Also they have been reporting on Hawaii.

    • @guruuvy
      @guruuvy 4 месяца назад +1

      We recorded this documentary in 2018. Nice try though.

  • @Layput
    @Layput 11 месяцев назад +1

    Then create your own line of black doll. Nobody said that you can't make a company that sells black dolls. I'm so tired of constant whining and victimhood mentality.

    • @guruuvy
      @guruuvy 4 месяца назад +1

      There have been two Black doll lines- That was the point of the movie.
      I worked on the second one when I was at Mattel and I’m in the documentary.

    • @Narukamiii
      @Narukamiii 2 месяца назад +2

      FYI - Black barbie was made in 1980

  • @melo3559
    @melo3559 11 месяцев назад +3

    i had no idea that would be a thing ! pretty interesting to know there were other types of barbie! hoping for barbie latina a lot!

    • @guruuvy
      @guruuvy 4 месяца назад +1

      Teresa was introduced in the 1980s and is still in the line now- They just made a 35th Anniversary collector doll of her I think!
      There are also Latin Kens and Barbies produced in the Fashionistas play line dolls every season.

  • @SaturnHuanglong
    @SaturnHuanglong 10 месяцев назад +1

    blackface barbie would've been funnier

  • @SL1021Esquire
    @SL1021Esquire 11 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome!🤘

  • @Layput
    @Layput 11 месяцев назад +1

    Barbie is sold all over the world. No children ever complained. Then came these old black women.

    • @guruuvy
      @guruuvy 4 месяца назад +2

      Lol- As if they were ever going to stop making blonde dolls.
      Equity does not equal oppression.

  • @kimberlydmartin3533
    @kimberlydmartin3533 11 месяцев назад +2

    I bought my daughter 1 white doll, and after that it was black dolls. And I have a couple of dolls myself.

  • @mlynne-uc9py
    @mlynne-uc9py 11 месяцев назад +2

    🇺🇸💙🇺🇸• Excellent American Story •🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

  • @staceyhart9746
    @staceyhart9746 11 месяцев назад

    What film festivals will it be in?

  • @tylerhackner9731
    @tylerhackner9731 11 месяцев назад +1

    🙌🏽🙌🏽

  • @cantagiousca5220
    @cantagiousca5220 2 месяца назад

    African barbo