You seem kind of dismissive, when you say that this is some how 'playing the race card'.

This coming from someone who equates the negative value placed on black dolls, with "bad guys are dressed in black". I assume you aren't 100% serious with that logic. But who knows..

It isn't that they needed a black doll, they needed two identical dolls. One black and one white. But the black skin isn't the issue here, how many times are we shown the bad guy as a man dressed in black? There's more to this than race, but it's really easy to play the race card. Yawn.