I was shocked to see this game listed on boardgamegeek.com:
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic155625_md.jpg)
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic46742_md.jpg)
It's an American game from 1935 and apparently has rules similar to CHUTES AND LADDERS. Sort of frightening that this game could actually get published and distributed in this country a mere 75 years ago. We've come a long way.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on March 10, 2010, 09:39:04 AM
I was shocked to see this game listed on boardgamegeek.com:
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic155625_md.jpg)
(http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic46742_md.jpg)
It's an American game from 1935 and apparently has rules similar to CHUTES AND LADDERS. Sort of frightening that this game could actually get published and distributed in this country a mere 75 years ago. We've come a long way.
All I can say to that picture is :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
I remember when I was a kid-on uhf channels-hell-even on affiliates of the Big 3!- these cartoons played every day before and after school-while Detroit was burning-these were airing for the children of the people fighting in the streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LMrdcs4ucc
Though I never really found the Little Rascals racist. Sure-Buckwheats hair stood up when he was scared-but so did Moe Howards! It was slapstick. The kids in the Rascals always treated Stymie and Buckwheat as equals. In fact-most of the episodes which Stymie appeared in,he was usually a leader-not a follower. But the cartoons are propaganda that Hitler would have been proud of. This country denounced Hitler-even while we still promoted racism. Hitler based his 'Final Solution' on what we-the good ole USA-already succsesfully did with the American Indians. Put them in camps and kill them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0rJ3CGVd0
Hell, even Disney's The Song Of The South has never officially been released on video in the States due to it's controversial racial material.
:buggedout: wow.. That's disgusting. We have come a long way but still have a long way too go.