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In lugnet.starwars, Tim Romine wrote:
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In lugnet.starwars, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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It’s important to understand that the “race-card” was played a long time ago.
A bunch of pale danes sat around a room and decided what primary color would
work best as a “flesh” tone. They looked at each other and the choice was
ethno-centric. They weren’t color-blind, just typically insensitive (or not
forward-looking enough). Having painted themselves into a corner, they kept
it up until they had to face reality with the NBA. The trouble was, they
needed to make that decision a wee bit earlier for representing any specific
person for Star Wars and Harry Potter, because they faced the two rotten
choices of keeping up the pretense and facing a possible outcry by the black
community if they came out with a yellow Lando (or none at all, which is what
they tried to get away with for as long as they could, which was perhaps
worse), or proving the lie in their own rational by making a brown Lando. It
was a train wreck destined to happen.
->Bruce<--
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I disagree with your assumptions. When LEGO first made any attempt at Lego
“people”, they had very few colors to choose from. Yellow was probably the
best looking one available at the time. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I just don’t
believe there was any racial motivation in the original color choice.
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However, we do have the clear example of set
215 as skin colour differentiating ‘race’; and this set dates back to 1977 -
not too long after yellow skin was established.
Adieu
Richie Dulin
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| (...) Well, that's true IF you believe that Lego's race card is played across all lines and all themes. From what I remember, they've always been adamant about the race card only pertaining to minifigs and only fictional ones at that. Personally, I (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I disagree with your assumptions. When LEGO first made any attempt at Lego "people", they had very few colors to choose from. Yellow was probably the best looking one available at the time. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I just don't believe there was (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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