{"id":8886,"date":"2016-07-25T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/calgary-woman-questions-if-different-prices-for-dolls-with-different-skin-colour-is-racist\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:40:00","slug":"calgary-woman-questions-if-different-prices-for-dolls-with-different-skin-colour-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/calgary-woman-questions-if-different-prices-for-dolls-with-different-skin-colour-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary woman questions if different prices for dolls with different skin colour is racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"12\" alt=\"Calgary woman questions if different prices for dolls with different skin colour is racist\" src=\"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ac9535f5ce_07252137-racist-20dolls-202089891-0-9cd7b47f.jpg\" \/> A Calgary woman says dolls she found at Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us were identical except for skin colour and price, and wonders if it was a racist pricing choice. She asked why the so-labeled \u201cethnic\u201d version of the \u201cYou &#038; Me Kissing Doll\u201d was $2 cheaper than the identical white doll. \u201cThe woman at the store said she was aware of the issue and that management had raised it with corporate but so far corporate had done nothing about it and she seemed embarrassed about it but it wasn&#8217;t in her control to change the price,\u201d said Carolyn Wadsworth, prenatal educator. Wadsworth sometimes buys dolls to help teach prenatal education, but was disturbed by these ones. \u201cThe black baby is not as valuable as the white one,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel that&#8217;s the message it&#8217;s sending and it&#8217;s certainly one kids might receive.\u201d CTV&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary woman says dolls she found at Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us were identical except for skin colour and price, and wonders if it was a racist pricing choice. She asked why the so-labeled \u201cethnic\u201d version of the \u201cYou &#038; Me Kissing Doll\u201d was $2 cheaper than the identical white doll. \u201cThe woman at the store &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/calgary-woman-questions-if-different-prices-for-dolls-with-different-skin-colour-is-racist\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truthjuice","category-geopolitics","nodate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Calgary woman questions if different prices for dolls with different skin colour is racist - TruthJuice News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/calgary-woman-questions-if-different-prices-for-dolls-with-different-skin-colour-is-racist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Calgary woman questions if different prices for dolls with different skin colour is racist - TruthJuice News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Calgary woman says dolls she found at Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Us were identical except for skin colour and price, and wonders if it was a racist pricing choice. 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