Dolly Maddening: Racial Paranoia at Schnucks Grocery

Timothy Birdnow

Americans have way too much time on their hands - and too little in the way of real problems. Too often we go looking for something to give offense.

Take this as a prime example.

Schnucks is a local grocery chain that dominates the St. Louis area. (Interestingly enough, my father worked at the original when he was a teenager - it was just one little store the size of a Seven Eleven.)  Apparently one of the Schnucks stores - this one in St. Louis' choicest neighborhood - is carrying a Chinese manufactured doll called "Lazy Baby". The ddolls come in both black and white, but the Schucks store was out fof the white version when a black "pastor" found a row of black baby dolls entitled "lazy baby".

You know what happened next.

From Fox2 News:

Traci Blackmon about her reaction when she saw black dolls named 'Lazy Baby.’

Traci saw the dolls at the Ladue Crossing Schnucks at Interstate 170 and Ladue Road.

"Historically, in the effort to denigrate black people, words like ‘lazy,’ ‘shuffling,’ words that refer to a lack of intelligence of black people, have been used,” Blackmon said.

Blackmon, who is the Pastor at Christ the King United Church of Christ in Blackjack, posted a Facebook Live about the dolls.

She says a store worker brought her a white 'Lazy Baby' doll as well.

Blackjack is a community that is nowhere near Ladue, I might add. It appears to me Traci Blackmon went out of her way to find these dolls. In fact, I doubt she found them at all; somebody probably mentioned it to her and she is the "point man" making the fuss.

Either that or she is way overpaid by her congregation; you don't live in Ladue if you don't have a lot of money.

The article continues

Fox 2/News 11 found both black and white ‘Lazy Baby’ dolls at different Schnucks stores.

Blackmon says the fact that there are black and white ‘Lazy Baby’ dolls does not take away her concern.

So it doesn't matter if everything is equal to this activist.

Civil rights have morphed from a matter of simple human decency, of allowing people to pursue happiness, to a demand for special privileges and an eternal debt that the majority will never satisfy. Now it's about the deepest, darkest parts of the human heart, wherein dwells some ancient racism. The so-called Civil Rights Establishment no longer seeks a fair shake, but rather a shakedown. They know they have power as long as they can claim America is inherently racist and inequality still exists. But America is not and never was a nation where equality was paramount; equality is possible only in Heaven, not here on Earth. America is supposed to be the place where you are not equal. In fact, the less equal the better; America is about opportunity, about taking the inequality you have and putting it to good use. If you are booksmart you can become a professor. If you are mechanically minded an engineer or a technician. We are all different; to demand equality is to demand standardization. Make everyone the same!  It is not only impossible to do that but it is immoral. God made us different for a reason.

I suspect this woman knows all that. She defines her self-worth in political activism, in outrage, in finding fault. I would like to know where she stands on the salvation of souls. Shouldn't she be tending her flock in that regard rather than being outraged? And what of "judge not lest ye be judged"?  Liberals love to quote that, yet they are forever judging. This woman is judging the people at Schnucks. If she doesn't like black people being pre-judged, why does she pre-judge white people?

BTW - why aren''t there Asian versions of this doll? What - there aren't lazy Asians?

And how would she have reacted had there been no black dolls, only white ones? This is a lilly-white neighborhood, and the black dolls were not likely to sell well. Schnucks couldn't win either way; she would have complained had there been no black dolls out, citing racism as the reason.

I did a little sleuthing; the woman is a social justice warrior. She heads up the United Church of Christ's Justice Ministry. And she is on a number of social justice petitions.

So this is a setup. She was looking for something to find offense and shake down Schnucks, to advance the notion that racism is rampant in America.

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