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| | | (...) Well then, should "white" folks view the release of a yellow skinned Luke, Han, etc. as a slap in the face? I have never, ever seen a yellow person (except for the time I had a VERY bad fever and became jaundiced). How dare they portray the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —John Radtke
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| | | | | (...) of (...) I like this last point. I think the people who are bothered the most about this minifig race issue are suffering from a mistaken impression that yellow figs are/were ever meant to accurately represent caucasians. These Barbie (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) Perhaps you should have a peeks at these sets: 215 Red Indians 9171 Duplo World People And get back to us. They're both in the Lugnet database. Thanks, eric (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Michael Nelson
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| | | | | | I may be wrong (please correct me if I am), I haven't seen Empire Strikes Back in a long time, but isn't Dak the gunner of Luke's snowspeeder black? If he was black he didn't get any special treatment on lego's version. Michael (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Nathan McDowell
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| | | | | | (...) Nope, he's as caucasian as can be. =) ~Nathan (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) of (...) Depends on whether you key on hue or value. Hue (color) is abstract for Lego - no one is bright yellow, so why can't that be a neutral color for everyone? Because of value (relative light and dark). Lego yellow is pale - and held next (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Karim Nassar
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| | | | (...) - (...) Not at all... in fact you've hit the nail right on the head as far as I'm concerned about the entire race question. What you call "value" is more acurately termed (in this discussion anyway) skin albeido. That is, the level of light (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | | Re: who's feelin the black pack? —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) a (...) Can't say that I've ever heard of "skin albedo" (not albeido, by the way). "Value" in this sense is an artist's term for relative light and dark. (...) world, (...) So, are you arguing that pale yellow is okay, or pale yellow is not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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