According to Premiere Christian News (via Christian Headlines), executives at Mattel "seemed receptive" to a letter sent by Faithful America, which demanded that the 1945-founded, $4.58 billion company should "immediately and publicly commit to depicting the Holy Family as people of color in your Nativity sets and to no longer selling white Jesus products."įaithful America's executive director, Episcopal priest Rev. It appears that the concerns of the social justice advocates are being heard by Mattel executives. "This doesn't just get history wrong it also fuels white supremacy, as many theologians and historians have noted." "Mattel's 'Little People Nativity' and 'Little People A Deluxe Christmas Story' playsets wrongly depict the Holy Family as white," the petition read, referring to Fisher-Price's parent company Mattel. "Selling a blonde, white Jesus toy isn't just untrue to history - it's untrue to the message of the Gospel, and fuels the very oppression that Jesus opposed," the group wrote in the online petition, which has a little over 12,000 signatures and a goal of 15,000 signatures.
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The social justice advocates, who "challenge Christian nationalism and white supremacy and to renew the church's prophetic role in building a more free and just society" believe that the characters in Fisher-Price's "Little People Nativity" playsets should be race-appropriate. Faithful America, a 2004-founded online community of Christians who are fighting for social justice, has called upon toy maker Fisher-Price to change the appearance of the Nativity characters in an upcoming children's set.