Whats even grosser is that after they banned slavery the british government paid reparations to the slave owners for the loss of their slaves to the tune of millions of pounds in todays money

I remember watching this as a youngin and being totally shocked. I absolutely remember thinking Why are her thighs so big girls can't/shouldn't have big thighs?

I just wanted to use this as an oppertunity to say business insider is a gossip website masquerading as a business website.

Noooo I'm not fine with that, I was just trying to explain to you that when your dark skinned black woman your experiences are different so you view stuff like that differently. When you have dark skin, you never get to be just pretty, people are always trying to shave your hair or do weird makeup on you or so with…

I can understand that as a non black woman showing beauty diversity is a more important issue to you however as a dark skinned black Nigerian woman showing a pretty, gwynnie, sienna miller type dark skinned black girl is more important to me. Dark skinned black women, especially african ones, never get to just be…

also it does matter what country their from, there is alot of diversity within africa and within nigeria itself so just getting a pic of any old black woman from any part of the world is not really appropriate. Its akin to getting a picture of any old white woman in a specific discussion about Irish people. If you…

Sorry I didn't mean to take an agressive tone with you. It just feels like alot of the time dark skinned black women are peoples little experiment, we're not allowed to just be hot we have to have shaved heads and exagerated features and funky lipstick and be overweight and be unconventionally beautiful. its very rare…

Funny how none of the black women you've pictured are actually from any particular african country, or you know Nigeria the country where the dolls are actually from. hmmmmm.

I agree to some extent but I think thats a different battle. Like we just got our pretty barbies it feels like you want to take them away from us and switch them for unconventional beauty barbies but thats what they do to dark skinned black women alllll the time.

Well to me the skin colour issue is more important. Also there is a very annoying thing that happens in the media where dark skinned black women arent allowed to be conventionally pretty. Usually when u see dark skinned black women in the media they have a super unconventional look like short hair, exagerated features…

Yes thats true I do notice that when I go back home most girls are very slim with a good bit of muscle tone too

Its super that the dolls also represent the different ethnicities/cultures and languages within Nigeria. Alot of people dont realise the amount of diversity within Africa. Nigeria alone has over 300 languages and ethnicities. These guys need to open an online store right now, I want them alllll

I saw a documentary on BBC where they analysed the brains of naturally skinny people and naturally overweight people when they saw images of food. the naturally skinny brains couldn't care less wheras the naturally overweight brains were going mad and had alot of brain activity. The natural overweight bodies were also…

I saw someone on twitter comparing Mackelemore to Rosa Parks. Rosa friggen Parks...my heart sunk

Well seeing as how the banjo is an African instrument a back guy playing a banjo in a folk band would actually be the culturally normative image. Regardless music is a product, and there is a hell of alot of money to be made. If the powerful are systematically making money by stealing and appropriating the work of…

Can you believe the man is bloody 40.

Funny I was thinking the exact reverse. What is Katy Perry doing singing on this awesome rap/trap song?

Somewhere somewhere Segolene is laughing her ass off

I havent read the book but to me it seems as though she is hoping to cash in on feminism without actually using her wealth or power to make an effective difference - to do this it would involve disagreeing, become a disagreeable woman. I have been dissapointed both by her attempts to hire unpaid interns and her…

Shes an idiot though. This re-boot could have meant guest appearances, interviews, more celebrity and more money for her. Instead she had to be a bitter lemon and ruin the fun for everyone.