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My daughter (almost 2yo) and I went to Target last week and had an encounter with a woman in the check out line. We are white, and the woman we encountered was white.

My daughter has a Mirabel (from Encanto) doll and a Moana doll. When we went to Target we of course went down the toy aisles and she found the same brand of doll but in Tiana (Princess and the Frog) who she is absolutely obsessed with right now. She was so excited to find her that we decided to get her. Her day was made. For those who donโ€™t know, Tiana is Black.

We got to the check out line (it was very long, which doesnโ€™t really do anything for the story) and stood behind this woman who was shopping alone. She turned to my daughter and asked if she was buying the doll for a friend. I said, โ€œOh no, itโ€™s for her!โ€ She looked at me and said, โ€œWellโ€ฆ you canโ€™t do that. Thatโ€™s a black doll. Those are for black girls.โ€ I was stunned and almost didnโ€™t know what to say. I told her, โ€œMy daughter wants the doll, Iโ€™m getting her the doll. And itโ€™s not your place to tell me what I can and canโ€™t do for my child.โ€

This woman stood there and gave me a very long lecture and said things like Iโ€™m stealing a doll from a little black girl, Iโ€™m perpetuating racism by allowing my daughter to have black dolls, grooming my daughter to BE a racist, Iโ€™m contributing to white supremacyโ€ฆ she was loudly condemning my choice to allow my daughter to love a Tiana doll.

I have a lot of thoughts on this but ultimately, I donโ€™t think itโ€™s a white womanโ€™s place to tell me what is racist. In the end, we just moved lines and went to another cashier to get the hell out of there and to keep her from continuing to upset my daughter. I guess Iโ€™m asking, was she right?

ETA: it was NOT the cashier that said these things. It was another woman in line. She was in front of us, we joined the line after her and we were all waiting to be checked out.

ETA part 2, shared from my comment: Hi everyone! Thank you so much for all of your thoughts and opinions.

I just wanted to address a couple things: Iโ€™m using my throwaway account because Iโ€™ve seen (especially lately) people take things irl and get kids involved, etc. On my regular account, I have shared details about my daughter and our life but I couldnโ€™t remember how specific I had been in the past. So to be safe, I shared this from my throwaway account, hoping that I wouldnโ€™t have to worry about my daughterโ€™s face being brought to millions of people on the Internet. I understand that by making that decision, I have draw some criticism that this story might be fake. Itโ€™s not, but go on with yourself if you think so lol.

A lot of people have asked why Iโ€™m even asking if this lady was right. Itโ€™s a complicated situation. Iโ€™m probably not as anti-racist as a lot of people in the world, I just do my best to raise my daughter to love all people and treat everyone with kindness and dignity. Period. Sheโ€™s young for the specifics of these kids of conversations. I just wanted to see if anyone on the Internet had perspective on the situation. Because of the area we live in, we arenโ€™t exposed to a lot of different ideologies very often. My own research on topics like these leads me down the depths of the Internet and in some of those spaces it seems like the thought processes behind what is and isnโ€™t racist get so polarizing that they just go full 360ยฐ back into racist territory. But Iโ€™m white and Iโ€™ve never experienced something like racism directed toward me before, so Iโ€™ve been told and have read that my own thoughts on subjects of racism can be colored by internal bias and I should defer to people of colorโ€™s opinions on matters such as this. In the end, I was challenged in a parenting decision by a random woman shopping in Target and, while I know that Iโ€™m not racist and that Iโ€™m not grooming a future racist, I defaulted back into thinking that maybe Iโ€™m wrong. I started to ask myself, am I doing the right thing? Am I being a good parent? Someone so passionate about a subject can make you question yourself on a good day, let alone a bad day where youโ€™re ambushed in line trying to leave a damn Target.

Thank you all for the kind words about my parenting, and for everyone concerned that my daughter was affected, she was a little upset in the store, but once we left, got her doll out of the box and handed it to her, she was happy as could be. Luckily for all of us, children are pure, innocent little souls that have happiness in mind almost all the time. I feel confident that Iโ€™m raising a little girl with love and respect for all people, and I thank you kind strangers on the Internet for sharing your opinions with me to help validate that feeling.

If this ever happens again, which I pray it does not ๐Ÿซ?, I have absolutely rehearsed everything I should have said to that woman and plan to use it.

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