Officials at University Properties, which leases Urban Outfitters’ Broadway storefront, asked the New Haven store to remove Ghettopoly earlier this week because the leasing agent found the game offensive, University Properties Director David Newton said. Kenneth Green of Hartford also spoke at the news conference, calling on Urban Outfitters to stop selling the board game. New Haven Urban Outfitters store manager Brian Hull said the retailer removed Ghettopoly from locations across the country due to customer concern, but declined to comment further. The game has been available online and in stores across the country since September. The NAACP will not tolerate this nonsense.” “It is deplorable and downright disrespectful to the African-American community.
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“We understand everyone’s right to free speech and the right to make a dollar in this society, we are totally outraged about this particular product,” Esdaile said. The Greater New Haven National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Scot Esdaile said the game was “sickening and degrading filth” that takes the worst stereotypes in the black urban community - pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and “thugs” - and “glorifies” them. On one board space, “Martin Luthor King Jr.” - intentionally misspelled - is drawn scratching his genital region and saying “I have an itch,” a reference to King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
A spoof of Monopoly, Ghettopoly has angered black leaders because of its racially-motivated depictions. After the board game Ghettopoly sparked national controversy and heated protest from black leaders, national retailer Urban Outfitters pulled the game from store shelves at its 61 locations Thursday, including its New Haven store on Broadway, NAACP leaders said.Īt a news conference in front of Urban Outfitters Thursday, local black leaders, politicians and students called the board game disrespectful and degrading to the urban community.
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