Diversity on Campus, and a Cabbage Patch Quandry

so i went to my diversity event tonight... it fuckin rocked out loud... some people thought it wasnt that great but it got the point across... ill talk about it in class tommorow...be there or be square :)

then i had a cabbage patch problem at work.... im sure we all know cabbage patch kids are the little dolls that you can customize to be like you, or find to look like you, and they can be "adopted" and they have names and birthdays and stuff.... yeah... those...

well at work amber and i had to rearrange the toys to make them look neater, so we decided to make a cabbage patch tree on the floor, you know... you put them in a circle and stack them in circles that get progressively smaller? we knew that his would be an issue if somebody wanted a particular one from the middle, soooo we decided to sort the dolls so one of each kind could be reached from the outside so there wouldn't be too many initial issues...

the sorting astounded me, there were 7 different kinds of dolls that we found... the tally stood at: Group 1: Caucasian Females with Pink Highlights (18) Group 2: Caucasian Females with Blue Highlights (17) Group 3: African American Girls with Pink Highlights (3) Group 4: African American Girls with Blue Highlights (2) Group 5: African American Boys (3) Group 6: Caucasian Boys (2) and Group 7: Oriental Boys (1).... interesting isn't it? people think that kids dont want boy dolls or dolls of different nationalities.... there were no oriental girls... all of the boys had blue highlights... there were no "girly" boys.... all of the girl dolls had t shirts on that said "Pirates Rock" and the boys had shirts that said "I love the Cabbage Patch"....

I actually suggested the sorting after I heard about the doll test that was done in classes during Brown vs. Board... I'd heard about it in the book, but i figured hell im going to be stacking dolls i might as well learn something... what i learned is that we need more dolls of different nationalities, and for gods sake get some boys in there! boy dolls need love too!

ok thats my bit....