Monopoly's standard board originally based all its cheapest properties in black neighborhoods - inspired by the racial segregation in 1930s Atlantic City

[The Monk]

Monopoly's standard board originally based all its cheapest properties in black neighborhoods - inspired by the racial segregation in 1930s Atlantic City

'The Monopoly board records a world of ubiquitous racism,'

Pilon asserted that the most common American version of the game today was created in the 1930s by a realtor named Jesse Raiford, who modeled his board after his hometown of Atlantic City.

Where do people get the money and time to keep dragging up the past because it suits their agenda today?

[deebakes]

[The Monk]

Same thing in England - the cheapest properties were in what was then the low class suburbs.

[FBD]

Where do people get the money and time to keep dragging up the past because it suits their agenda today?

but you dont want to believe how deep clown world goes

[lost in melb.]

Landing on Mayfair

[The Monk]

Landing on Mayfair

With Whitechapel and Old Kent Road being the boonies.....