Urban Outfitters recently stopped selling the game.īut even as the protests against Ghettopoly mounted, some African Americans said the demonstrators were overlooking something: The game, they said, exists because of negative images spread by certain African American rap artists, abetted by white record labels and white-owned television outlets such as MTV. Friday, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume wrote Chang, of Saint Marys, Pa., to denounce the game as "reprehensible," and the organization's branches in Seattle and Philadelphia recently condemned and picketed stores of the Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters chain for selling it. But few black people seemed to want anything to do with it. When Ghettopoly hit the market about a month ago, sales were brisk, Chang said in an interview last week.
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It prominently features a black man holding a bottle of malt liquor in one hand and a gun in the other, and has "playa" pieces that include a pimp, a prostitute, a rock of crack cocaine and an Uzi. The result was Ghettopoly, a biting parody of ghetto culture that mimics Monopoly. Chang said he was watching a rapper show off his "ghetto-fabulous" mansion on the show "MTV Cribs" when an idea struck him: "Why don't I make a board game that a guy like this would want to put it on his coffee table?"
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