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Article: Philadelphia-Based Urban Outfitters Stops Selling Ghettopoly Game.
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- October 12, 2003
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By Kathy Boccella, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 12--After two weeks of brisk sales and protests, Urban Outfitters on Friday stopped selling a Monopoly-like board game that critics called racist and insensitive to African Americans.
Critics said Ghettopoly mocked the problems of poverty, drugs and violence by requiring "playas" to steal and sell drugs while building crack houses and public housing.
Urban Outfitters Inc., a Philadelphia-based chain of more than 50 stores, released a brief statement Friday -- two days after scores of protesters picketed its headquarters at 18th and Walnut Streets and its ...