Outrage expressed about the racism and inequality of the board game "Monopoly".
Take a good look at a Monopoly board. The most expensive properties, Park Place and Boardwalk, are marked in dark blue. Maybe you’ve drawn a card inviting you to “take a walk on the Boardwalk.” But that invitation wasn’t open to everyone when the game first took on its current form. Even though Black citizens comprised roughly a quarter of Atlantic City’s overall population at the time, the famed Boardwalk and its adjacent beaches were segregated.
Jesse Raiford, a realtor in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the early 1930s and a fan of what players then called “the monopoly game,” affixed prices to the properties on his board to reflect the actual real-estate hierarchy at the time. And in Atlantic City, as in so much of the rest of the United States, that hierarchy reflects a bitter legacy of racism and residential segregation.
Cyril and Ruth Harvey, friends of Raiford’s who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property on the board); their friends, the Joneses, lived on Park Place. The Harveys had previously lived on Ventnor Avenue, one of the yellow properties that represented some of Atlantic City’s wealthier neighborhoods, with their high walls and fences and racial covenants that excluded Black citizens.
The Harveys employed a Black maid named Clara Watson. She lived on Baltic Avenue in a low-income, Black neighborhood, not far from Mediterranean Avenue. On the Monopoly board, those are priced cheapest, at $60.
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And then some gentrifier builds a fancy hotel there and kicks out all the original tenants
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | March 20, 2021 9:24 PM
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I'd love to go back to the days when you could pay $60 for an apartment.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 22, 2021 11:39 PM
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Save your outrage for [italic]Candy Land[/italic] for creating several generations of fatsos.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 22, 2021 11:40 PM
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I'm all out of eye rolls.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 22, 2021 11:40 PM
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I'm more outraged at that old E.T. board game!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 22, 2021 11:42 PM
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Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | March 20, 2021 3:13 PM
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The article is about the history of Monopoly, written by a woman who just wrote a whole book on it, and it's not some "woke outrage" article like OP claims.
I feel really sorry for the people who let themselves be manipulated by trolls like OP.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 20, 2021 3:24 PM
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Oh my! Something something adjacent to something racist in the past. I’m shocked beyond belief that something that comes from America’s past has something to do with something that was somehow traced in some way to segregation.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 20, 2021 3:35 PM
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Every town/city is like that.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 20, 2021 3:44 PM
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Lesson learned from Monopoly- The banker always wins.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 20, 2021 3:54 PM
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I always had to be the fucking IRON. PMO.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 20, 2021 9:24 PM
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