When looking at images of African American Barbie dolls it seems as if there can be major improvements to their appearances. All three images that I pulled are African American Barbie dolls dressed in animal print, adding to the over sexualized stereotype. As I mentioned in my pervious post, African American women are often displayed as “wild things” as if they are some kind of rare species, they are seen as exotic creatures. These Barbie dolls do nothing to go against this common used image. If these images of African American women being perceived as wild sexualized animals onto Barbie dolls then what are young children who are playing with these dolls learning? There are learning that there is nothing wrong with these images, they are learning that that is exactly what African American women are, rare sexually driven creatures. These dolls promote the stereotypes that have been promoted for hundreds of years, since slavery was abolished. We allow people too keep reproducing these kinds of images so that the white dominate society can have that superiority over African Americans that they have had throughout history. We are only teaching our children to cooperate with these images and go along with them by not putting a end to them. The negative, over sexualized images of African American women will not end until we put an end to it and get rid of these images once and for all. We need to stand up and be the modern society that we are supposed to be. We have to get rid of these negative stereotypes and focus on the more positive images that African American women should be known for. If we do not do anything about putting a end to this social issue it will only continue, and these negative images of African American women will continue to hurt their images as individuals. We need to stop grouping them together and end this racist view of these women. It’s time to put a end once and for all to un true “facts” about African American Women and promote individuals and who they truly are.