After Cashier Asks 2-Year-Old Girl If She Wants Doll That Looks 'More Like Her,' Toddler Brilliantly Shuts Her Down
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Sophia Benner, from South Carolina, is two years old. When she grows up she wants to be a doctor. So when her mom, Brandi, recently took her shopping at Target for a potty graduation gift, it came as no surprise that Sophia chose a doctor doll.
What DID come as a surprise however was the cashier’s reaction to the doll she picked out. Why? Because the doll was black, something that Brandi and her daughter hadn’t thought much about until the cashier said to Sophia, “Are you sure this is the doll you want, honey?” When the little girl said yes, the cashier continued by saying “But she doesn’t look like you. We have lots of other dolls that look more like you.” Before Brandi could intervene however, Sophia shut down the cashier with the best response ever.
See the full conversation below, which Brandi posted on Instagram recently. It’s since been shared on Facebook, where it’s been liked by more than 450k people and shared over 180k times. Sophia might only be a toddler, but she’s clearly smarter than certain adults out there…
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2-year-old Sophia Benner from South Carolina recently went shopping with her mom, Brandi
When a cashier questioned her choice of doll, Sophia shut her down with the best response ever
Other people soon responded with their own stories:
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My son started 1st grade & began begging me to have his new best friend over. "Please mom! You will LOVE Stephon! He's just like me! We like the same stuff! We have Mario backpacks & love Nintendo and we love the old games best! Please mom! Can I have Stephon over?" It was endless. I told him that when I had a weekend off we could invite his friend over. Endless stories of how Braden (my son) and Stephon were "just like brothers". I finally had a weekend off & let the boys make plans. I spoke a bit with Stephon's mom, gave her directions to our home. When Stephon jumped out of the car with the same backpack as my kid; Braden proudly proclaimed , once again, loud and proud; "SEE MOM! Twins! We have the same bookbag and everything!" Stephon smiled so big & echoed "SEE MOM!" Stephon's chocolate complexion, black fade and coffee colored eyes. My son's blue eyes and floppy blonde hair in contrast, looking up at us (moms) with huge smiles. The boys 7 then, 13 now. Still brothers. <3
Good for you..You are the best mom ever..Children need to know it's OK to have friends that they like..Being there for them is the best thing you have done !
This is how it should be. My son's best friend is also black, and he's such a good kid, I wish all his friends in life will be like that.
Awww!!
I could tell a very similar story about my son and his friend in first grade. It's GOOD when children can see their similarities!
My first doll (in 1988, Hungary) was an AFRICAN little girl. The FIRST! This is wonderful in a country which was a year before the end of communism!
I remember that one of my first doll was a Russian one, in traditional dress <3 and I also had a lot of dark-skinned dolls, back there in 2000, in Poland, when I was a little girl.
i had a black doll too(though it wasn't my first) in slovakia back in 1990... unfortunately somebody liked it too and i got it stolen in kindergarden... my mother is cross about it even now after 27 years :D
Nice story but how does it come, in 88, one year before the end of communism in Hungary... maybe you mean Romania, because there the communist era ends by the revolution in 89... but not Hungary...
It's sad to see, that some people are so narrow-minded. Luckily kids see the world with different eyes. They don't know about skin color or if someone is any different to them. And if they know, they usually don't care. We could learn so much from kids. Sadly we, the society, do our very best, to turn kids into humans with prejudices. The best parents can do is to try to raise their children open minded and with the necessary social skills, so they can find their own way. In this case here, the mom can be proud of her daughter. I hope the kid can hold on to this kind of attitude, which will be hard enough. I am still wondering, what the cashier was thinking. I mean it's pretty arrogant to ask a kid something like this, while her mother, the one who has to decide what’s good for her kid, was standing next to her. Mind your own business lady. You got a lesson from a two-year-old kid, which should make you thinking!
Kudos to you..
It is true, shame that adults segregate themselves on both sides, by making colour relevant. Especially at university, safe spaces for minorities or black people, Black universities, Black this, Black that. No wonder kids get confused, they see no colour and when they get older they learn that black people DO see colour [everywhere, from products to institutions] and that as a white kid, they can never win. Bless their innocence. Why not keep it that way from BOTH sides?
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My son started 1st grade & began begging me to have his new best friend over. "Please mom! You will LOVE Stephon! He's just like me! We like the same stuff! We have Mario backpacks & love Nintendo and we love the old games best! Please mom! Can I have Stephon over?" It was endless. I told him that when I had a weekend off we could invite his friend over. Endless stories of how Braden (my son) and Stephon were "just like brothers". I finally had a weekend off & let the boys make plans. I spoke a bit with Stephon's mom, gave her directions to our home. When Stephon jumped out of the car with the same backpack as my kid; Braden proudly proclaimed , once again, loud and proud; "SEE MOM! Twins! We have the same bookbag and everything!" Stephon smiled so big & echoed "SEE MOM!" Stephon's chocolate complexion, black fade and coffee colored eyes. My son's blue eyes and floppy blonde hair in contrast, looking up at us (moms) with huge smiles. The boys 7 then, 13 now. Still brothers. <3
Good for you..You are the best mom ever..Children need to know it's OK to have friends that they like..Being there for them is the best thing you have done !
This is how it should be. My son's best friend is also black, and he's such a good kid, I wish all his friends in life will be like that.
Awww!!
I could tell a very similar story about my son and his friend in first grade. It's GOOD when children can see their similarities!
My first doll (in 1988, Hungary) was an AFRICAN little girl. The FIRST! This is wonderful in a country which was a year before the end of communism!
I remember that one of my first doll was a Russian one, in traditional dress <3 and I also had a lot of dark-skinned dolls, back there in 2000, in Poland, when I was a little girl.
i had a black doll too(though it wasn't my first) in slovakia back in 1990... unfortunately somebody liked it too and i got it stolen in kindergarden... my mother is cross about it even now after 27 years :D
Nice story but how does it come, in 88, one year before the end of communism in Hungary... maybe you mean Romania, because there the communist era ends by the revolution in 89... but not Hungary...
It's sad to see, that some people are so narrow-minded. Luckily kids see the world with different eyes. They don't know about skin color or if someone is any different to them. And if they know, they usually don't care. We could learn so much from kids. Sadly we, the society, do our very best, to turn kids into humans with prejudices. The best parents can do is to try to raise their children open minded and with the necessary social skills, so they can find their own way. In this case here, the mom can be proud of her daughter. I hope the kid can hold on to this kind of attitude, which will be hard enough. I am still wondering, what the cashier was thinking. I mean it's pretty arrogant to ask a kid something like this, while her mother, the one who has to decide what’s good for her kid, was standing next to her. Mind your own business lady. You got a lesson from a two-year-old kid, which should make you thinking!
Kudos to you..
It is true, shame that adults segregate themselves on both sides, by making colour relevant. Especially at university, safe spaces for minorities or black people, Black universities, Black this, Black that. No wonder kids get confused, they see no colour and when they get older they learn that black people DO see colour [everywhere, from products to institutions] and that as a white kid, they can never win. Bless their innocence. Why not keep it that way from BOTH sides?
P A R A G R A P H S