‘A Playmobil pirate ship has drawn the ire of a California mom, who says that the toy came with racist instructions for a figurine that resembles a slave.
Iba Lockett of Sacramento, California said that her son’s aunt gave him a toy pirate ship for his fifth birthday. When she was helping her excited boy assemble it, she noticed something that she didn’t find very fun: a dark-skinned, barefooted character in tattered clothes.
“This right here was found around his neck,” she told KOVR, showing them a silver shackle piece that the instructions said to put around the figure’s neck.’
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