The Game Checkers is Racially
Insensitive
In a bill co-sponsored by John McCain and Tom Daschle,
the colors of red and black are to be banned from the game checkers. The change
is to be immediate. Yesterday, Tom Daschle had this to say: “Checkers has long
been a game deeply rooted in American lives and history. This change is long
overdue. No longer will we see the stereotypical red representing Native
Americans and black representing African Americans. Effective immediately all
game boards and chips are to be 2 shades of gray. Anyone found with a checkers
game sporting red and black will be subject to a stiff penalty of a minimum of 7
years in jail. This is a hate crime!”
[From the
“Listen don’t Speak” blog]
This bill would be a start, but it doesn’t go far enough. Checkers also
enforces rude behaviors and monarchism by making people jump over others to
eliminate them and using such phrases as “King me.” Shouldn’t we just go around
the other checkers politely without eliminating them. And isn’t “King Me” sexist
why not “Queen Me.” And the whole double checker fascism where the elite are
able to move as they will and the single checker proletariat can only move
forward, where is the equality here? Why does Red go first, who assigned these
affirmative actions to checkers? This game has a checkered past, time to
eliminate it. President Nixon saved his political career by a dog named Checkers, so there must be something profoundly wrong with
this game. In our next article we will explain why Monopoly is capitalistic
propaganda and the game Candyland predisposes kids to obesity.
