Angel Reese claiming she “never had Barbie dolls growing up because they didn’t look like her” is a powerful story.
It is also historically dishonest.
Christie, Barbie's Black friend, entered Barbie’s world in 1968.
The first official Black Barbie arrived in 1980.
American Girl introduced Addy Walker in 1993.
And in 1998, four years before Reese was born, Mattel was already selling Black basketball-playing Barbie dolls in authentic NBA uniforms.
By the time Angel Reese was old enough to walk through a toy aisle, Black dolls had already existed for decades... with different skin tones, hairstyles, careers, fashion lines and athletic identities.
Maybe none of the available dolls felt personally meaningful to her.
But that is very different from suggesting they did not exist.
They did.
Long before Angel Reese was born.
This is another example of a personal anecdote being repackaged into a sweeping cultural grievance that falls apart the moment anyone checks the timeline.
The irony is almost perfect:
A Black basketball Barbie existed before Angel Reese did.
Too many are not reading this correctly. Idaho is 50th of the 50 states unarmed robbery. The lowest in the nation. Gun controlled D.C., Maryland trade 1, 2 & 3 for armed robbery.
NEW: Look at the torched vintage Jaguar. By some estimates, the Spokane fire has destroyed more than 10,000 acres, around 700 homes, and other buildings in the area. No deaths were reported as of midday Monday.
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.@POTUS has released the video footage showing vandals cutting parts of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool with a knife. I thought the media said this didn’t exist?
The Spokane Complex Fire is now confirmed to be the most destructive wildfire in the history of Washington State.
To put this into better context - this wildfire would be the most destructive wildfire in the history of 43 other states.
June 2020 - Fauci pulls his mask down when he thinks the cameras are turned off. This is why nothing in his diary surprises me.
We knew he was a massive hypocrite from the start.
UPDATE: Aaron Farinacci, the suspect under arrest for arson in connection with the Old Trails fire in Spokane, WA shot his father in 2010 because he didnt want to do the dishes and killed him. He also tried to shoot his mother before trying to kill himself.
A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly starting the Old Trails Fire, one of three wildfires in Spokane County burning thousands of acres. https://t.co/HCUqjgXxWL