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The Obama Doll Sucks
So, I came across this blog post on Obama's comemorative doll and I just wanted to share this with the YP4 community. I mean really, is this the best we can do for brown dolls?
The doll just looks like another Sambo-rendition of black people and people of color.
I'm still trying to let it marinate.
- Amira D. Rahim's blog
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Awww hell-to-the-naww!!!
It reminds me of this montage at the end of one of my fav Spike Lee joints, Bamboozled:
(This is in my best sarcastic voice.)
At least he's wearing a flag pin, eh?
Eh?
Oh...
True..
i understand where you are coming from..they sort of exaggerated on the features...but i guess thats how society see the Afro Americans...