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Viral Video Sparks Outrage: Child’s Reaction to Black Doll Ignites Racism Debate
Sunday 29 December 2019, by
As she was opening her Christmas gift, an American girl discovered, frightened, a small black doll. The publication of the video of this scene has aroused the indignation of Internet users.
In this video posted on Snapchat, the girl’s mother says in a hilarious tone: "it’s a very cute doll". The reactions of the child and her mother quickly inflamed the web, reports 7sur7.
"It was clearly meant to be a joke, which is even worse than the scene itself," wrote a woman on Twitter. For another Internet user, it is proof that racism starts at home. "It really shows what they teach their children," another indignant.
In France, a similar controversy occurred a few days before the Christmas holiday. Julien Rochedy, former executive of the National Rally (RN), had protested against the presence of black dolls in the aisle of a supermarket. "Now we no longer have a choice. In my small provincial supermarket, the only doll highlighted is mixed-race. Our little girls have to submit to it. The future is shown to us; better, it is prescribed to us: disappear, dirty whites," he had tweeted.