Importing color labels

Okay, I'm new to Lightroom so be gentle.  The problem I have is I have about a dozen folders on an external hard drive with files in them that I want to import to Lightroom (I'm on a Mac OS X).  I had previously gone through and put color labels on all of the files but when I import them into Lightroom the color label does not translate.  Is there anyway to include the color label and have it translate to Lightroom's color labeling? 

UNfortunnately, Lr does can't handle the colour labels applied via Finder (Mac OS X) or Explorer (Windows).

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