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Black leaders outraged at 'Ghettopoly' game
this is an honest question not a smart ass one.
does it make a difference if it were a white person or a black person???
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Black leaders outraged at 'Ghettopoly' game at Urban Outfitters
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cheap Trick Avenue instead of Boardwalk? Hernando's Chop Shop instead of Reading Railroad?
Black leaders are outraged over a new board game called "Ghettopoly" that has "playas" acting like pimps and game cards reading, "You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to crack. Collect $50."
Black clergymen say the game, the brainchild of a Pennsylvania man, should be banned, and have called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters unless the company stops selling Ghettopoly in its chain of clothing stores.
Urban Outfitters has not publicly commented on the issue, and did not return a call seeking comment on Wednesday.
"If we are silent on this issue there is more of this type to come," the Rev. Robert P. Shine Sr., president of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity, said at a sidewalk rally Wednesday in front Urban Outfitters' corporate headquarters in Philadelphia.
Shine displayed the game board, with properties including Westside Liquor, Harlem, The Bronx, and Long Beach City, and squares labeled Smitty's XXX Peep Show, Weinstein's Gold and Platinum, and Tyron's Gun Shop.
Players draw "Hustle" and "Ghetto Stash" cards with directions like, "You're a little short on loot, so you decided to stick up a bank. Collect $75," and "Steal $$$ if you pass Let$ Roll."
The creator of Ghettopoly, David Chang, did not immediately answer e-mails or phone calls seeking comment about the game.
On his Web site, Chang is unapologetic, and promises that more games — Hoodopoly, Hiphopopoly, Thugopoly and Redneckopoly — are coming soon.
"It draws on stereotypes not as a means to degrade, but as a medium to bring together in laughter," Chang maintains, adding, "If we can't laugh at ourselves ... we'll continue to live in blame and bitterness."
But the Ghettopoly board depicts figures labeled "Malcum X" and "Martin Luthor King Jr." — intentionally misspelled — noted Rev. Glenn Wilson, pastor of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.
"This is beyond making fun, to use the caricature of Dr. King in this regard," Wilson said. "There's no way that game could be taken in any way other than that this man had racist intent in marketing it."
The Philadelphia black clergy and Men United for a Better Philadelphia were just the latest to protest the game. In Chicago, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters. In Florida, the St. Petersburg and Hillsborough County chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged the company to stop carrying the game.
"I was outraged. We called Outfitters, we wrote them a letter, we held a press conference, but we've had no response," Pfleger said Wednesday.
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this is an honest question not a smart ass one.
does it make a difference if it were a white person or a black person???
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http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-10-09-ghettopoly_x.htm
Black leaders outraged at 'Ghettopoly' game at Urban Outfitters
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cheap Trick Avenue instead of Boardwalk? Hernando's Chop Shop instead of Reading Railroad?
Black leaders are outraged over a new board game called "Ghettopoly" that has "playas" acting like pimps and game cards reading, "You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to crack. Collect $50."
Black clergymen say the game, the brainchild of a Pennsylvania man, should be banned, and have called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters unless the company stops selling Ghettopoly in its chain of clothing stores.
Urban Outfitters has not publicly commented on the issue, and did not return a call seeking comment on Wednesday.
"If we are silent on this issue there is more of this type to come," the Rev. Robert P. Shine Sr., president of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity, said at a sidewalk rally Wednesday in front Urban Outfitters' corporate headquarters in Philadelphia.
Shine displayed the game board, with properties including Westside Liquor, Harlem, The Bronx, and Long Beach City, and squares labeled Smitty's XXX Peep Show, Weinstein's Gold and Platinum, and Tyron's Gun Shop.
Players draw "Hustle" and "Ghetto Stash" cards with directions like, "You're a little short on loot, so you decided to stick up a bank. Collect $75," and "Steal $$$ if you pass Let$ Roll."
The creator of Ghettopoly, David Chang, did not immediately answer e-mails or phone calls seeking comment about the game.
On his Web site, Chang is unapologetic, and promises that more games — Hoodopoly, Hiphopopoly, Thugopoly and Redneckopoly — are coming soon.
"It draws on stereotypes not as a means to degrade, but as a medium to bring together in laughter," Chang maintains, adding, "If we can't laugh at ourselves ... we'll continue to live in blame and bitterness."
But the Ghettopoly board depicts figures labeled "Malcum X" and "Martin Luthor King Jr." — intentionally misspelled — noted Rev. Glenn Wilson, pastor of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.
"This is beyond making fun, to use the caricature of Dr. King in this regard," Wilson said. "There's no way that game could be taken in any way other than that this man had racist intent in marketing it."
The Philadelphia black clergy and Men United for a Better Philadelphia were just the latest to protest the game. In Chicago, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters. In Florida, the St. Petersburg and Hillsborough County chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged the company to stop carrying the game.
"I was outraged. We called Outfitters, we wrote them a letter, we held a press conference, but we've had no response," Pfleger said Wednesday.
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Re: Black leaders outraged at 'Ghettopoly' game
Of course Im serious. Outsiders pullin this type of shit is uncalled for and need an asswhoopin. And it aint just white people, its anybody thats an outsider. Its like how I can clown on my fam but when anyone outside the fam says something even remotely disrespectful then its on.
Oh yea good lookin out on the article.
Of course Im serious. Outsiders pullin this type of shit is uncalled for and need an asswhoopin. And it aint just white people, its anybody thats an outsider. Its like how I can clown on my fam but when anyone outside the fam says something even remotely disrespectful then its on.
Oh yea good lookin out on the article.
Re: Re: Black leaders outraged at 'Ghettopoly' game
Where were these equal opportunist/anti-racist's at when games like "Redneck Rampage" were released.
It's shit like this that amazes me. If you want racism to stop, then you have to conquer all forms of it, from all racial aspects, including WHITE, BROWN, YELLOW, and BLACK racism.
I see what your sayin'. It's not like he is creating this game based on what he's seen in the ghetto, rather the way the media and society has portrayed a typical "ghetto" to be. I still think it is stupid for people to immediatley yell out racist, regardless if Mr. Chang was out of line or not. There is a difference in this world between greed and racism. This cat saw an opportunity to make some bread, so he took it. The way he depicted certain aspects of a ghetto definatley call for a whoopin', but more people then you want to believe would have done the same thing if they knew they could make some money. Outsider, yes. Racist; we are not in any position to judge the man's personal beliefs.
Where were these equal opportunist/anti-racist's at when games like "Redneck Rampage" were released.
It's shit like this that amazes me. If you want racism to stop, then you have to conquer all forms of it, from all racial aspects, including WHITE, BROWN, YELLOW, and BLACK racism.
I see what your sayin'. It's not like he is creating this game based on what he's seen in the ghetto, rather the way the media and society has portrayed a typical "ghetto" to be. I still think it is stupid for people to immediatley yell out racist, regardless if Mr. Chang was out of line or not. There is a difference in this world between greed and racism. This cat saw an opportunity to make some bread, so he took it. The way he depicted certain aspects of a ghetto definatley call for a whoopin', but more people then you want to believe would have done the same thing if they knew they could make some money. Outsider, yes. Racist; we are not in any position to judge the man's personal beliefs.
