Rather than coveted properties like Boardwalk and Park Place, the new Ghettopoly game features squares like Smitty’s XXX Peep Show and Tyron’s Gun Shop.
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And the object of the game is to buy stolen property and build crack houses while trying to avoid being shot.īlack and minority leaders across the country have openly condemned the game, calling it a racist and offensive perpetrator of negative stereotypes. The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has led a movement calling for an end to the production and sale of Ghettopoly, and is urging consumers to boycott stores that sell it. Urban Outfitters, the chain clothing store that sold the game, has removed Ghettopoly from its shelves. “It is disturbing.to promote and capitalize off such negative aspects of society that cause great harm to individuals and to the African-American community at-large,” NAACP President Kweisi Mfume wrote in a letter to David Chang, the creator of the Ghettopoly game. “We shall not sit by quietly and allow this type of insult to occur.”ĭespite the criticism, Chang, who immigrated to the U.S.
from Taiwan at the age of 8, defended his game as a humorous representation of real life. “It draws on stereotypes not as a means to degrade, but as a medium to bring together in laughter. If we can’t laugh at ourselves.then we’ll continue to live in blame and bitterness,” Chang said in a statement.
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