ayinde, i am one not ready to pull out rags on anyone or "sacar trapitos" in the "see i told you so mode" but you did say ...

--The discourse on racism is usually dominated by those who the system does not negatively impact the most.---

actually ayinde, i told my son his comment did not apply as the children may have been too young at 4 and 5 yrs old to even know the game well enough to choose. he then countered that the white dolls were probably made better than the black dolls which could have been raggedy looking and assured me that if they were asked to go hug a real person and there was a white man standing there and black man standing there that the children would go hug the black man everytime.