[I hope this is not just a repetition--searched and didnt find a thread]
It took almost a day for someone to start trying to exploit his daughters in the spirit of corporate greed. Ty Inc, the makers of Beanie Babies, introduced their first African-American girl dolls this January. By a cosmic coincidence whose odds only a super-computer could calculate, these dolls are named Sasha and Malia. Ty assures us the coincidence is only, well, a coincidence. Let's assure them that naked greed is, well, naked greed.
Please write CONTACT@TY.COM and tell them NO YOU CAN'T! We know far better ways to spend your money than to support the exploitation of innocent children/
Ty Inc should have us all fit-to-be-tied.
The company that brought the world Beanie Babies is now selling dolls named Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia. Even though the dolls are apparently the only African-American dolls in the Ty Girlz collection (there are less than 30 in the entire collection), the intellectual giants at this low-life company insist the names have nothing to do with the First Daughters. They insist they just "think they're beautiful names" and are just as suprised as we to find that one of the First children bears the same name. Even more surprised to find that the other does too.
It's cool to do/say whatever seems important about the President and maybe even his wife. They're public figures and campaigned for this political office. On the other hand, the daughters are children. The same age as my children--maybe yours, too. Would everyone eager to have a shameful companty make a buck off their kids please raise your right hands?
Please join me in writing Ty to insist the dolls be recalled immediately and an apology sent to the first daughters. I have told Ty that I will buy no more of their products and am circulating a petition around my neighborhood to ask others to do the same. Maybe a million email package will give Ty just the stimulus they need to do the right thing--if for the wrong reason.
Here's more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/...