I have read that there are those offended by this game:
Those familiar pieces to the Monopoly game are the shoe, the thimble and the race car, but have you ever heard of the version with the gun or crack cocaine?
It's sure not your typical board game with player pieces that include a machine gun, drugs and a bottle of malt liquor. You can forget about buying up hotels -- in this game you purchase crack houses instead.
Ghettopoly is designed with every ethnic group in mind including the Irish, Asians and Latinos. The game's creator is David Chang, who immigrated to America from Taiwan 20 years ago. It seems a lot of people aren't laughing. In fact, they are offended -- calling it racist pornography and the worst of stereotypes.
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Blacks deserve a public apology from Urban Outfitters for selling Ghettopoly, a new board game that promotes "racial hatred," members of a civil rights group said yesterday.
Cynthia Davis, national crisis director for the National Action Network, the organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, noted that the retail store took the games off its shelves amid complaints, but she added that an apology had not been offered.
The entire game is offensive, it seems like you're targeting a certain community saying that this entire race of people are no more than drug addicts, alcoholics, crack heads and that's the way they live in the inner city," said Davis.
The game replicates Monopoly but replaces the game pieces with "ghetto" characters including "playas," crack houses and pimps.
On a Web site promoting the game's release, the objective is described: "If a playa owns all the stolen property in da same color pattern, da playa can buy crack houses from da Loan Shark and set 'em up on da property. If da playa has four crack houses on each of the stolen properties of da same color pattern, he can buy projects from da Loan Shark."
Workers at the Urban Outfitters on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village said the games were taken off the shelves over "customer concerns" and referred inquiries to their headquarters in Pennsylvania. There, a phone operator said no one was immediately available to comment.
Ghetto + Monopoly = Ghettopoly
by DevonMcBride 23 Replies latest jw friends
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Sassy
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Tatiana
Looks like the guy, Chang, who created it has had to pull it off the shelves. And he has to stop production. Parker Bros. is upset. No more online sales either.
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dolphman
A couple of my black friends loved it.
When redneckopoly comes out (which is what the creator David Chang plans to do soon) I"ll be the first to buy that. Why? BECAUSE IT"S FUNNY SHIT.
Political Correctness is ruining our sense of humour and way of life. Quit being so sensitive.
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Valis
I think he defends himself pretty good...
http://www.ghettopoly.com/message.html
Message to the haters.
Should we also ban every single comedian who cracks jokes about Asians? Is Jay Leno a racist because he made a comment about Asian people eating dogs? How about Snoop Dog, on his TV show on MTV, is he a racist too? What do you think when Rappers rap about "Chinky eyes" or "eyes slanted like", should they be called racist also. Or how about the broken English Asians who are portrayed in Black Movies, are the people who laugh, all racist? First off, for those of you who say, "why don't you make Chinkopoly ?" The word Chink is a Racist word, Ghetto is not. The last time I checked, there may be one Asian rapper on MTV, even then you would probably ask me who he is. Simply, there would not be enough interest in the American market place, because being an Asian in this Country is not consider too "Hip". Did you ever see an Asian action figure? And those that say "OH OH, he used the word Ghetto" that must mean he thinks all African Americans are just the images than that are in the game. First off, there are all ethnic groups portrayed in Ghettopoly. Including Asians, Irish, Jewish, Hispanics, Whites, and Italians, just like any "Ghetto". It's a shame that when the news media decided to turn something into a story, they only film or speak of the black properties that's in the game. They always fail to mention cards and properties that are of other ethnicity. Remember, the game is called Ghettopoly not Blackopoly. I hope from this message some of you should know that I am not a racist person, but someone who decided to make a game that we all can enjoy and relate to. And what is so wrong with a game that not made by your everyday corporations. When I play with a traditional board game with my friends, it simply does not appeal to me much. To your dismay, Hip Hop Culture is what I gravitate towards, so naturally when I decided to make a game, I want to give it an urban edge. Stereotypes are everywhere, when you flip to MTV or BET you do not often see the same images and lyrics, rappers rapping about sipping on 40's, pimping hoes, smoking the chronics, slinging crack rocks, wicked jump shots. So with that said, I think before you pass judgment on my game, you should just see it for what it is. It is just a game. It's not so different from what’s already out there in the entertainment media in America. So if this game should be banned than there are tons of other forms of entertainments that also need to be banned. Just because you don't find this game funny and original, it does not give you the right to call me a racist or worst yet, try to ban it. However you do have every right not to buy it. I also think that some of you, not all, who wrote and called me all those nasty names are simply mad because you didn't think of Ghettopoly first. I am sorry that my last name is of Asian decent, maybe if my last name was different, some of you might not be so harsh.
David Chang
P.S. For those of you who is concern in regards to my legal issues with the OPOLY people, please do a search for opoly in Ebay or any search engine you like. I think it will answer most of your questions. For more interesting readings http://www.antimonopoly.com/the_full_story.html and http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121997.htm