So he took one Barbie page and I took mine. I, quite proudly, made my Barbie look just like the one on the cover, blonde and blue-eyed. Then I looked over at daddy who was coloring his own Barbie but he had done something entirely unexpected to me. He’d taken the brown crayon and made her skin brown. He’d taken the black crayon and gave her beautiful dark hair. He showed his finished picture to me and said sweetly, “Don’t you think she’s pretty too?
— Danielle Belton’s The Black Snob - The Snob Blog - On Little Black Girls, Beauty and Barbie Dolls
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