Racism: the board game

In 1970 Psychology Today published a board game where players where divided into white and black, and had to make economic progress while competing with each other. Called 'Blacks and Whites' and based on Monopoly, the idea was to demonstrate how the odds were stacked against black people in society by having different rules for each race in the game.

It was Whites started out with $1 million, blacks with $10,000 and each race had different opportunity decks. While whites could buy property...