Everyone knows Monopoly. Everyone also knows how African Americans earn slightly less income due to racism and environmental factors. Now combine those two together and you have the game of "Blacks & Whites."
The game is played like this, you first pick whether you are black or whites and you play it like monopoly.
Except a very racist twist, whites start with 1 million in assets while blacks start with 10 grands.
Every time around the circuit, whites earn 50K while black gets only 10K.
Whites and blacks draw from different, unequal "Chance cards" (called opportunity card)
For example blacks might pull "Mayor Daley reelected. You are picked up and taken directly to the police station for interrogation." Or "Draft call. Roll dice. If you roll an even number, you are drafted and sent to Viet Nam—sell all properties . . ."
Also, the board is divided into 4 sections:
the Ghetto Zone (including properties like Bedford Stuyvesant, Watts and Harlem)
the Integrated Zone (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Atlanta and Greenwich Village)
the Suburban Zone (San Clemente, Levittown, Burbank and Great Neck)
the Estate Zone (Grosse Pointe, Palm Beach, Newport and Nob Hill); whites can buy anywhere while blacks can purchase freely only in the Ghettos and the Integrated, $1,000,000 in net assets is needed before buying into the Estate Zone. And he is blocked from ownership in the Suburban Zone—unless he either finds a white owner ready to sell privately ("perhaps," as the rules suggest, "at a premium"), bids highest at a white's bankruptcy auction, or lucks onto an opportunity card that opens the suburbs to him.
The original game was developed for psychology reasons in University of California to simulate the frustration of blacks. Blacks could never win (see how racist this is...).
Later, with revision, blacks could win as they can get help from "soul mate" and in cases of bankruptcy, blacks have an advantage over white opponents. When a white player is cleaned out, he is simply forced to leave the game. But when a black player becomes bankrupt, he goes on welfare and collects $5,000 from each white player.
Link - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943833-2,00.html
1 year ago
it's just a bunch of screenshots of screenshots...I open up the previous screenshot in a Photoshop window. Then it was simply a zoom in iMovie
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