posted on October 27, 2003 04:30:41 PM new
As much as I like a good laugh, I am frankly glad this is being banned or boycotted most everywhere.... after reading about this "game" I can see no humor what so ever in it.
posted on October 27, 2003 04:36:08 PM new
yeah, well they started the controversy over a month ago in a shop here in downtown Seattle, the local leader of the NAACP vowed to protest in front of the store until the game was removed. The removed it.
Now the makers of Monopoly are sueing them.
BUT! bet these games bring big $$ on eBay!
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posted on October 27, 2003 05:04:06 PM new
I had to look it up...
Instead of a top hat, cane, and mustache, the Ghettopoly guy is a thuggish, bandanna wearing black man with bug eyes peering over dark glasses. He clenches a marijuana cigarette, holding an Uzi in one hand and a bottle of malt liquor in the other.
The game is played like monopoly, but the object is to put crack houses or project buildings in some of the worst neighborhoods in America while trying to avoid being carjacked, shot, or drug addicted. There are ghetto stash and hustle cards, and the seven game pieces include a pimp, a prostitute, a machine gun, malt liquor bottle, basketball, marijuana leaf, and a rock of crack cocaine.
"Black or white, can you see yourself playing a game that just highlights all this wrong? That focuses in on all of the negative images and stereotypes of African people in America? I don't think that anybody with any sense of humanity ought to play or purchase this game or even consider this game," said Dr. Conrad Worrill, Center for Inner City Studies.
Auction description
Buying stolen properties, p@#pin h@es, building crack houses and projects, paying protection fees and getting car jacked are some of the elements of the game.
Not dope enough?...If you don't have the money that you own to the loan shark you might just land yourself in da Emergency Room.
Contents: Game Board, Loan Shark Tray, 40 Crack Houses, 17 Projects, Pink Slip Cards, Ghetto Stash and Hustle Cards, 7 Game pieces (Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basket Ball and Crack), Counterfeit Money, and 2 Dice
posted on October 28, 2003 04:46:56 PM new
Looks like a fun game to me. Here's there website. They have some other games coming up too.
Hoodopoly, Hiphopoply, Thugopoly and Redneckopoly
posted on October 28, 2003 09:49:24 PM new
It must be a cold day in hell. I agree with twelve. Forgive me...it is in poor taste
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