Playmobil toy pirate ship with slave doll sparks outrage: ‘Slavery is not a game

Playmobil toy pirate ship with slave doll sparks outrage: ‘Slavery is not a game,Some accumulation — and a lot of account — required.

A Playmobil toy charlatan address able with what appears to be a shackled bondservant baby has sparked abuse afterwards a California woman stumbled aloft instructions cogent her to bang a alternation about its neck.

"I am mortified," Aimee Norman wrote on Facebook. "Who would anticipate in the year 2015? Slavery is not a game."

Norman said she bought the set for her 5-year-old nephew's altogether — and chose it accurately if she saw it came with a "black character."

But forth with baiter floats, two cannons and a disposable high deck, the ancestors begin the dark-skinned artificial baby came with a baby argent cuff.An arrow in the apprenticeship chiral directs users to put the section about its neck.

"It's absolutely racist," the boy's mother Ida Lockett told CBS Sacramento. "It told my son to put a bondservant belt about the atramentous character's neck, and again to play with the toy."

"You cannot accept this specific accent and alarm it annihilation else," she added. "The actuality that you can Google it, attending it up, say what it is — it's a bondservant collar."

The charlatan address set sells for $89.99 and takes about 45 account to assemble, according to Playmobil's website.The Germany-based toy aggregation told the Daily News that the baby in catechism is "clearly a aggregation affiliate on the charlatan address and not a captive."

It was advised to portray activity on a 17th-century charlatan ship, Playmobil said in a statement.

"The amount was meant to represent a charlatan who was a above bondservant in a actual context," the account said. "It was not our ambition to affront anyone in anyway."
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