“Now if I right now decided that I wanted to play monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing monopoly with you, I didn’t allow you to have any money, I didn’t allow you to have anything on the board, anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of monopoly and everything you gained and you earned whilst playing those rounds was taken from you.”“So for 400 rounds of monopoly you didn’t get to play at all, not only do you not get to play, you have to play on behalf of the person that you’re playing against, you have to earn money and wealth for them and then you have to turn it over to them.”“And then for 50 years you finally get a little bit and you’re allowed to play but any time they don’t like the way that you’re playing or you’re catching up, or that you’re doing something to be self sufficient, they burn your game, burn your cars and burn your Monopoly money.”“AT this point the only way you’re going to catch up in the game is if the person shares the wealth and now what if every time they share the wealth, there’s psychological warfare against you to say ‘ oh you’re an equal opportunity hire.’“How can you win? You can’t win, the game is fixed!“You broke the contract when you killed us in the streets and didn’t give a f**k.”
“You broke the contract when we played your game for 400 years and built your wealth.”
“You broke the contract when we built our wealth again with our own boot straps and you destroyed it.”
“And they are lucky that all black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.”
Kimberly Latrice Jones compares the board game monopoly to the uphill battle many African Americans still face today.
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