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Black leaders in Philadelphia are outraged by a new unofficial version of Monopoly called Ghettopoly.
The board game has "playas" acting like pimps, cards reading "You got yo whole neighbourhood addicted to crack. Collect $50" and squares labelled Smitty's XXX Peep Show and Tyron's Gun Shop.
Black clergymen say the game should be banned and have called for a boycott of Pennsylvania company, Urban Outfitters, unless they stop selling it.
The Rev Robert Shine Sr, president of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity, said: "If we are silent on this issue there is more of this type to come."
David Chang, the creator of Ghettopoly, has already promised that more games - Hoodopoly, Hiphopopoly, Thugopoly and Redneckopoly - will follow.
On his website, he said: "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 we'll continue to live in blame and bitterness."
The board game depicts figures labelled "Malcum X" and "Martin Luthor King Jr." which are intentionally misspelt, according to Rev. Glenn Wilson, pastor of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.
He said: "This is beyond making fun, to use the caricature of Dr. King in this regard. There's no way that game could be taken in any way other than that this man had racist intent in marketing it."
The board game has "playas" acting like pimps, cards reading "You got yo whole neighbourhood addicted to crack. Collect $50" and squares labelled Smitty's XXX Peep Show and Tyron's Gun Shop.
Black clergymen say the game should be banned and have called for a boycott of Pennsylvania company, Urban Outfitters, unless they stop selling it.
The Rev Robert Shine Sr, president of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity, said: "If we are silent on this issue there is more of this type to come."
David Chang, the creator of Ghettopoly, has already promised that more games - Hoodopoly, Hiphopopoly, Thugopoly and Redneckopoly - will follow.
On his website, he said: "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 we'll continue to live in blame and bitterness."
The board game depicts figures labelled "Malcum X" and "Martin Luthor King Jr." which are intentionally misspelt, according to Rev. Glenn Wilson, pastor of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.
He said: "This is beyond making fun, to use the caricature of Dr. King in this regard. There's no way that game could be taken in any way other than that this man had racist intent in marketing it."
