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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:46:31 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Christopher Lannan writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Damien Nesbit writes:
> > If lego ever released a yellow lando, it would be a huge slap in the face to
> > every black hero ever and I'd definitely get Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and
> > the NAACP involved in the struggle to get lego to wake up and join the rest • of
> > us in the integrated real world
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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 caucasian race as YELLOW. I don't think the 'figs are
> supposed to be "white" or "black" or anything but wee little LEGO people. Was
> LEGO saying when they released Native Americans that Native Americans are the
> same shade of skin as "white" folks? Are Pacific rim islanders and Asians the
> same in skin tone as caucasians? Nope.
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> I guess the whole point is is that Han and Luke are as yellow in the movies as
> Lando is.
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> Chris
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
analogies are irrelevant because Barbies have been made with accurate
caucasian skintones, so a real distinction can be made between them and
other 'racially' skin-toned Barbies. Lego didn't start out by making a
pretense of accurately representing or otherwise singling out racial groups.
We could do worse than follow their example.
John
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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 (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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