'Ghettopoly' game causes outrage. (Like Hillary ragging on WIllie Brown.)

CNN ^ | Thursday, October 9, 2003 Posted: 1:30 AM EDT (0530 GMT) | Not Provided

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (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."

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Remarkably tacky.

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[newgeezer]

Yo, Awchie. Take a look at dis!

(Boy da way Glenn Miller played...)

[isthisnickcool]

Link.

[isthisnickcool]

It's amazing how all these people get upset about a board game but don't do a damn thing about all the real problems blacks have.

[doug from upland]

I want one. Not because I would want to play it, but because the leftist race-baiting fascists want it banned.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Isn't this "just makin' it real," like the rappers do??

[ItsOurTimeNow]

"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."

Right on man!

I'm buying one. These "Ihaveaproblemwitheverything" types need to lighten up.

[sc2_ct]

It's amazing how all these people get upset about a board game but don't do a damn thing about all the real problems blacks have.

Actually, it makes perfect sense when you realize that the people who are getting so upset about this are the ones *causing* many of the real problems that blacks face.

[talleyman]

... Songs that made the Hit Parade...

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That's true...50cent, P-Diddly, and Snoop Dawg all voluntarily call themselves these names. It's down right Ludicrous.

[JSteff]

""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."

So they should not have made a big deal out of it and it would have died from lack of sales. They just created press for it.... Stupid.

I bet mr Pfleger is envious he did not create the game himself.

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In Chicago, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church, called for a boycott of Urban Outfitters.

OUCH!  I'm sure your parish is Urban Outfitter's target market.

Here's a suggestion, Rev.  How about working a little harder at getting "your community" to quit living up to the stereotypes?

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[Roughneck]

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."


Mommy! Little billy's kicking me under the table!. . .

[Toonces T. Cat]

Just tried to buy it and it's SOLD OUT....LOL

They say it will be back in stock around November 10th...You do have the option to preorder or you can buy one at an outrageous price on eBay right now.

-Toonces

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Noone ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Clintonopoly ?
Players draw cards, among them, "Take a kickback from the Red Chinese"; collect $200...

[metalboy]

David Chang...Wonder if he be a white boy. Why do I get the feeling that this 'protest' is all about $$$? When the "leaders' come out and protest, it`s always about that isn`t it? But the multi multi millionaire rappers can tell black kids it`s kool ta go to tha jail, it`s kool to be in a gang boy! It`s dope ta be selling dope in tha hood while I`se be hanging wit my boys in my mansion and yacht! boy! Yet not one peep is ever said about these mutts. P.Diddy, what a razor sharp jackass. You see him in just about every black rap video playing the "ghetto boy" with his football jersey, backwards baseball hat and gold chains dancing in the ghetto street and the next thing you know, there he is in the south of France with his butler holding an umbrella over his head to protect him from the sun whilst he saunters around his yacht in a white tuxedo. Yes, how very ghetto boy! Only famous blacks are allowed to denegrate their race, but anytime whitey does it it`s payoff time. Hypocrisy; for the left it`s a religion, and they don`t care who knows that either do they? Blatant.

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What would the card deks be called? Intern of The Week and Lincoln Bed and Breakfast?

[Fraulein]

What does this game have that MTV doesn't?