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Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:43:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Travis Quigley writes:
> Greetings to all,
> Have been following this debate for a while and I thought I'd through in my 2
> cents. Don't know if you guys are familiar with World Cup Soccer (I certainly
> am not), but it is definetly not a sport played exclusively by "white" folk.
> What I'm driving at is that Lego has released those soccer buses in a few
> colors and each bus come with stickers so kids can decorate their bus to
> represent they're favorite county's team etc. Now surely the teams that are
> represented do include players from just about every conceiveable color that a
> human being can have. I've only seen the blue bus and don't remember the
> countires it could represent, but every minifig is yellow. Things that make
> you go hmmm....
> Travis
Hey, I had the exact same thought. I'm trying to create the minifig version
of the Colorado Rapids. 3 of their 5 forwards are Central American, one is
African, one is African-American, and one is Caucasian. I just grabbed 5 of
my minifgs with the right color torsos and slapped the stickers on them and
said "Great, I've got Dely Valdes, Zambrano, Agogo, Okoh, and Bravo but how am
I going to do Paule's white-blonde hair..." What I'm trying to say is that I
didn't think twice that 4 of those 5 guys should have been dark-skinned,
they're LEGO guys and as such, they're yellow. Yes it will be harder for the
Rapids Fan Club to identify who's who in the stadium I creating and will post
pictures of, but that's life!
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| Greetings to all, Have been following this debate for a while and I thought I'd through in my 2 cents. Don't know if you guys are familiar with World Cup Soccer (I certainly am not), but it is definetly not a sport played exclusively by "white" (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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