We have already learned about "Growing Up Skipper" and "Slumber Party Barbie." There is still yet another disaster in the Barbie pantheon. In 1997, Mattel teamed up with Nabisco and produced "Oreo Barbie." You would have thunk that someone in these two companies, before they released the African-American version of the doll, would have realized that "Oreo" is a modern derogatory term for what used to be called an "Uncle Tom" and refers to a person who is black on the outside but white on the inside.
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| Oreo Barbie copyrighted by Mattel. Image via Wikimedia |
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