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adorocinema
  • 6/13/2024
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00:00If you've gone your whole life and you've never seen anything made in your own image,
00:04there is damage done.
00:10When I think of Barbie, I see a little white doll with blue eyes in all pink.
00:17That's what I think.
00:20I just found Barbie to be a little light skin.
00:26Years ago, there were no black dolls.
00:28They were all white dolls.
00:31Little white girls, they could see possibility in their Barbies.
00:36And there was nothing that I can relate to.
00:39This is me and the creator of Barbie.
00:42At Mattel, I worked on the lines.
00:45She would say, do you have any suggestions?
00:48I was able to say, we want a black Barbie.
00:51That was a little act of revolution.
00:54Crowning this doll as Barbie was telling the world black is beautiful, too.
01:01I designed black Barbie to reflect the total look of a black woman.
01:07She's black.
01:07She's beautiful.
01:08She's dynamite.
01:10I thought black Barbie felt magical.
01:13From a young age, children can learn about inclusiveness.
01:16It's really pretty.
01:17It has locks.
01:18Just like me.
01:19Black Barbie has just taken me to a whole different world.
01:24I knew black Barbie was different, but I never realized the magnitude.
01:36When did you first fall in love with black Barbie?
01:38When I first got one in my hand.
01:49You