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In lugnet.starwars, Dave Johann wrote:
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In lugnet.starwars, Richie Dulin wrote:
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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.
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Always? I don’t think so... the first we heard of that policy was at the release
of the NBA figures.
After all, Speilberg (if the director is Speilberg) is yellow, and Zidane (and
he is Zidane) is yellow.
Adieu
Richie Dulin
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| (...) After reading the posts, perhaps the issue is no longer "Does yellow=white?" but rather, "Why aren't there more people of color in the mainstream media?" If we had a Star Wars-type franchise that was evenly distributed among White, Black, (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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