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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:32:55 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Sid Mark Dinsay writes:
> Any person trying to say that minifigs represent any particular group is
> probably delving a little too much into the meaning of an imaginary world in
> the hopes of playing the race card.
Right on. I'd suggest they are delving in WAY too much.
Suggesting that TLG make different coloured heads to represent "black heroes"
in minifig form is imposing foolish Western Hemisphere PC politics upon a
company based in a place that is decades ahead of the US in terms of "The Race
Issue." To the vast, vast majority of Europeans, "The Race Issue" is a non-
issue, and I bet many of them get a kick out of threads like this one.
[Disclaimer - By "Race Issue," I mostly mean "Colour Issue," because I realize
that religious barriers are still huge in many places.] On top of all this,
does anybody really think that the truly repressed people in the world really
care about whether there are LEGO toys sharing their skin colour?
During part of my childhood, "Fat Albert" was my favourite cartoon. It wasn't
until I became an adult that I realized, "Wait a minute - all those kids were
black! And so is Bill Cosby!!" As a child, I only saw a bunch of funny
cartoon kids. Why am I saying this? Because I think kids who play with LEGO
see their minifigs the same way - raceless. That is, unless there is some
adult poisoning the child's mind by blatantly drawing lines between people of
every skin tone, and giving each "race" their own name. And what is a "Black
Hero" anyway? Is Michael Jordan one? I don't recall hearing any friends of
mine (black or otherwise) calling him that - it was always just plain "hero."
Anyone who sees the lack of brown-headed minifigs as an "issue" must realize
that it is only an issue in their own minds. I'll go as far to say that
attitudes like this may have frightened TLG into avoiding a Lando fig, because
no matter how they colour him, it will be controversial to some small-minded
people.
Those are my first and last words on the topic. Too much bandwidth has
already been wasted on this.
Jeff J
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| (...) Somehow, I suspect it's more like a homogeneous white society (Denmark) being completely clueless about the rest of the world. They chose yellow because that was the standard Lego color closest to their perception of "flesh". I don't see this (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Blah blah blah. I'm an Asian-American--which means I'm "yellow." So his whole time, Lego minifigs have been Asian-American. Right? Give me a break. Unlike flesh, the ABS plastic used to make Lego is specifically-colored--NOT gradients of other (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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