Walmart under fire for selling black Barbies at half price of white dolls An American supermarket chain has come under fire for cutting the price of black Barbies to nearly half that of the white dolls. By Heidi Blake Published: 9:07AM GMT 11 Mar 2010 Walmart was criticised for selling black Barbies at nearly half the price of white dolls Walmart stocks Mattel’s fair-skinned Ballerina Barbie dolls and its darker-skinned Ballerina Theresa dolls at many of its stores, but the chain has now been criticised for “valuing blackness less than whiteness” by cutting the price of the black doll. A...