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Check this out! It's the first and only board game to depict life from the perspective of a minority.
Each player is an 18-year-old black male, struggling to make it. The goal is to make it from any one of four starting points: the ghetto, the military, the entertainment industry or the halls of a black university, to end the of the game board, to a place called "freedom."
Wow can you imagine that? That sounds like a tough obstacle.
Along the way, however, are what the game's creator says are typical pitfalls for young black men — trouble with the law and money issues. Land on a racism space, and you're forced to pull a card that reads: "You're pulled over by police for driving a new car, back two spaces."
Wow kind of like monopoly eh, when you land on Go to Jail. Poor Darnell, he's gotta go back two spaces, whereas we went to jail in Monopoly.
In only a few months, and with limited distribution, Sawyer has sold 10,000 games. But not every black family is running to the toy store to get one. Many just don't buy the humor.
Outside a store selling the game in suburban Los Angeles, one African-American man said his "life is far too serious to … roll the dice and get pushed back two spaces."
Sounds like a fun filled game if you want to know the 'black experience'. I think I'll stick to naked Twister.
Each player is an 18-year-old black male, struggling to make it. The goal is to make it from any one of four starting points: the ghetto, the military, the entertainment industry or the halls of a black university, to end the of the game board, to a place called "freedom."
Wow can you imagine that? That sounds like a tough obstacle.
Along the way, however, are what the game's creator says are typical pitfalls for young black men — trouble with the law and money issues. Land on a racism space, and you're forced to pull a card that reads: "You're pulled over by police for driving a new car, back two spaces."
Wow kind of like monopoly eh, when you land on Go to Jail. Poor Darnell, he's gotta go back two spaces, whereas we went to jail in Monopoly.
In only a few months, and with limited distribution, Sawyer has sold 10,000 games. But not every black family is running to the toy store to get one. Many just don't buy the humor.
Outside a store selling the game in suburban Los Angeles, one African-American man said his "life is far too serious to … roll the dice and get pushed back two spaces."
Sounds like a fun filled game if you want to know the 'black experience'. I think I'll stick to naked Twister.
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