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In lugnet.starwars, Tim Romine wrote:
> I am worried that the "race card" being played here, even with the best of
> intentions, is, ultimately, going to hurt new LEGO releases.
>
> Tim, the color-blind optimist.
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 (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, I remember hearing that they did polls to see what the public thought would be more appropriate. The public chose "yellow" (or at least "pre-existing brick color") over "flesh-tones". I'll grant you that at the time they probably (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Excellent idea (I wish they had done this, in fact), but I don't think the problem really revealed itself until people started begging for a "black" Lando fig. Luke and most of the main characters had already been released by then, so there (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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