So, if you know me you know homie loves a good card game. So when Game Night was brought up I was ready, but there were no card games and I was forced to play scrabble. Scrabble is a weird game, honestly who was like you know whats fun, words. Anyways despite this bland casserole of a game I was ready to win. I was playing against Hameedah, my favorite frienemy and I was destined to win. But alasI forgot that I cannot spell and that most of the words I use are AAVE. Then this brought me to the realization that this game should have a AAVE version. Because in this day and age everyone speaks AAVE (despite the fact that they shouldn’t considering it was created for black people), I know that this version would revitalize the Scrabble industry. AAVE Scrabble would hit. But that will never get made because companies never think of their black consumers. Also I just know the commercials and billboards for this would be beyond racist.
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This would definitely be an improvement for game nights everywhere. In an era where every possible piece of pop culture has been made into a game, this is so necessary. They would need several black people on their marketing team though because that would go left real quick.
I will never not laugh at “bland casserole of a game” and I completely support this. And imagine the potential: first an AAVE Scrabble, then Spanglish and krenglish and patois, and who knows what else? The future is now
I think that you make an interesting point, often times society tries to force us into playing games using their impression of what should be universal knowledge. Bringing diversity into not only professional work settings, but also recreational settings is important.