New Board Game: Ghettopoly
 

Click on the link below... I am not sure this is appropriate for "family time"

http://www.ghettopoly.com

Re: New Board Game: Ghettopoly
 

OH. MY. DAYUMS.
:eek: :eek: :eek:

WHY! WHY! WHY!!!! :mad: :mad:

Why do people think reinforcing negative stereotypes is so much fun? Why why why why why why???

For ages 13 to adult?:eek: :eek: :eek:

Did you see the $50 reward for turning the neighborhood into CHs. :mad: That's sick!:mad:

This cannot be real, can it?


...if so, can you say manufacturer boycott? or we could take it ole school and get out the marching boots and placards; saddle up, yall. Let's ride.

Ok, this is crazy.:eek: WTH

Ghettopoly (sp??) the game!!!???
 

Good Morning everybody. I hope that everyone is blessed!!!! This morning on the local news I saw where an Asian man developed a "Monopoly" type game based on the ghetto. THis game is being sold in the Philadelphia area. The game pieces are...a 40 oz. bottle, a crack vial, and a ball and chain. The object of this game is to buy crack houses and to lose all your money. It makes me sick!!!!! The NAACP is going to get involved and I hear (from a few of my fellow college students) that Parker Bros., who makes the original Monopoly game is suing this jerk. What is this world coming to when people feel the need to profit from some ish like that. Holla back!!!!

they have a website!!!!
 

the web address is www.ghettopoly.com

I saw this on the news last night. The reporter said that the store from which she was reporting hasn't sold a single game. I hope that trend continues.

The store in Philly that is said to be selling these games is called "Urban Outfitters". The NAACP & the UBSS (Unified Black Students Society) on my campus are planning to take a ride to Philly and get things cracking!!!!!

Urban outfitters here had the game also, but quickly removed it from the shelves.

http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pict...ghettopoly.jpg

Black Clergy Protest Ghettopoly

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.


**The site is blocked at work and I keep forgetting to check the site when I get home.**

Check out Chit Chat
 

Why are the fits about to hit the shan?
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40645&highlight=ghettop oly

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I knew it would hit the fan before the 20th post and the CC regulars did not disappoint this ILK MEMBER. :rolleyes: