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Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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lugnet.western
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:59:23 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Richard Manzo writes:
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> > I do!!!
> > Cool...
> > An Abraham Limcoln minifig...
> > Black slaves...
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> > Black?
> > There's a problem here.
> > How would TLC deal with the issues of racism, slaves, etc.?
> > Up till now, there weren't any black-white-minorities issues, since all
> > minifigs were yellow. (Chinese, maybe? :-)
> > I remember some comments (can't remember who, though) about the fact that TLC
> > avoided racesim issues by not giving the minifigs a race at all.
> > So how would they make slaves, or slavers, without changing the minifigs • faces?
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> > Hmmm...
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> That is where TLC will run into a problem. All minifigs are yellow so that
> any child, of any race can relate to them. no other toy on the market is as
> neutral as lego. for example the are 4 diffrent types of the same barbie doll-
> a white one, an african american one, a latin one, and an asian one.
I agree. TLC were definitely either real smart to avoid the issue, or just so
stupid that they didn't even think about it. (Well... that's a bit far-
fetched... :-)
> If TLC were to make civil war lego sets with black slaves there would be so
> much outrage from from the african american community, they would have to
> discontinue the sets instantly. I think that the closest we came, and are
> going to come to civil war lego sets are the wild west sets.
I don't know about that - after all, it IS part of the US history. They could
show both sides of the issue - slaves in the south, free in the north, etc. to
be "fair".
> However if they
> were to make civil war sets with slaves I think that TLC would make the slaves
> with yellow faces just like every other minifig, just to keep its neutrality.
Didn't think of that! Sounds good to me...
-Shiri
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| (...) slaves (...) I never heard that TLC only had yellow figs to stay away from race issues. If so fine. But they shouldn't stay away from the Civil War just because of slavery or race issues. I mean this is part of our history. What a great way to (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| (...) faces? (...) That is where TLC will run into a problem. All minifigs are yellow so that any child, of any race can relate to them. no other toy on the market is as neutral as lego. for example the are 4 diffrent types of the same barbie doll- (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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