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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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Date: 
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:52:43 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, John Radtke writes:
Lego didn't start out by making a
pretense of accurately representing or otherwise singling out racial groups.

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



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  Re: who's feelin the black pack?
 
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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(...) 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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