Uno and Black Culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

I just thought it was a game people liked to play. You can walk into any Target and pick up a deck. What is your issue?

[Anonymous]

Spades and Dominoes being associated with Black families- yes, well known.

UNO- no, it may be popular with Black families but also with a variety of other races. The association is not as strong with just Black culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

Do some Googling on Merle Robbins, the inventor of Uno, and the origins. Then tell me how, exactly, I was supposed to know this, when I've seen Uno played everywhere from indoor recess in my elementary school to college frat houses to airports, by people of all races.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

I just thought it was a game people liked to play. You can walk into any Target and pick up a deck. What is your issue?

NP. From an Asian American family and have played Uno and other card games all my life. Am not in the habit of googling every card game or board game that I play, though I appreciate the new-to-me info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

I just thought it was a game people liked to play. You can walk into any Target and pick up a deck. What is your issue?

NP. From an Asian American family and have played Uno and other card games all my life. Am not in the habit of googling every card game or board game that I play, though I appreciate the new-to-me info.

I do too. But not when it's incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

I just thought it was a game people liked to play. You can walk into any Target and pick up a deck. What is your issue?

Same with pasta.

Your post literally says “it’s not a black thing because I’m white and I play it, and my who’re friends play it, and it’s at Target.”

You are trying to deny there is some cultural relevance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

Do some Googling on Merle Robbins, the inventor of Uno, and the origins. Then tell me how, exactly, I was supposed to know this, when I've seen Uno played everywhere from indoor recess in my elementary school to college frat houses to airports, by people of all races.

You are not “suppose to know it” but when somebody is teaching you something new maybe, just maybe, you can shut the F up and listen... for once.

Learn.

[Anonymous]

The only card game association o have is that Euchre is for white midwestern people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

I just thought it was a game people liked to play. You can walk into any Target and pick up a deck. What is your issue?

Same with pasta.

Your post literally says “it’s not a black thing because I’m white and I play it, and my who’re friends play it, and it’s at Target.”

You are trying to deny there is some cultural relevance.

DP. Maybe you are trying to deny its cultural relevance to other races? UNO is widely played by lots of people not majority black people.

Just because Black people play it too doesn’t make it Black Peoples Game. Other games may better fit that category because majority Black people play them. It’s not all or nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

Do some Googling on Merle Robbins, the inventor of Uno, and the origins. Then tell me how, exactly, I was supposed to know this, when I've seen Uno played everywhere from indoor recess in my elementary school to college frat houses to airports, by people of all races.

You are not “suppose to know it” but when somebody is teaching you something new maybe, just maybe, you can shut the F up and listen... for once.

Learn.

Not when they're teaching wrong stuff. Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's tied to cookouts and family gatherings during times of joy and sadness. Spades and dominoes are even worse, tables get flipped, people get cursed out or cry.

Please don’t say this—white people will take it as gospel that all black families are like this. We are black and nothing like this has ever happened at any gathering.

I will say that Scrabble got intense in our household growing up and my younger bro did flip the Scrabble board on one occasion. We were religious so no cursing, though.

UMC white girl here. Scrabble is also the only game that has every resulted in table flipping in our family! It's a very satisfying flip, with all those wooden tiles raining down. Somewhere, I actually have a board I made all my uncles autograph after they flipped the Scrabble table during a particularly intense and drunken game at the afterparty for a family wedding. Good times. Thanks for the memory.

[Anonymous]

This has got to be the most annoying and unfortunately unsurprising trend of claiming everything as belonging predominantly to one culture or another. Give it a rest.

[Anonymous]

A little primer on AA culture: we like to put our own twists on mainstream US culture. What we like doesn’t have to have an African origin or come from our own history for it to be embraced as “a black thing”. And something being “a black thing” doesn’t mean that we’re saying we invented it. Only that we’ve embraced it and it’s a recognizable part of our cultural identity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm White and we played it a ton growing up, especially when cousins got together at my grandparents' house. We also played Hearts a lot. Thank you for bringing up good memories!

I didn't know this was considered to be connected especially to Black culture. Looking forward to hearing more.

That’s like saying you made pasta who knew it was connected to Italian culture.

Do some Googling on Merle Robbins, the inventor of Uno, and the origins. Then tell me how, exactly, I was supposed to know this, when I've seen Uno played everywhere from indoor recess in my elementary school to college frat houses to airports, by people of all races.

You are not “suppose to know it” but when somebody is teaching you something new maybe, just maybe, you can shut the F up and listen... for once.

Learn.

Yeesh!! The first PP was saying thanks for the new information. Not sure why everyone jumped on her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A little primer on AA culture: we like to put our own twists on mainstream US culture. What we like doesn’t have to have an African origin or come from our own history for it to be embraced as “a black thing”. And something being “a black thing” doesn’t mean that we’re saying we invented it. Only that we’ve embraced it and it’s a recognizable part of our cultural identity.

I mean, okay? It can be very hard to admit that some "black things" are actually American things. There really are parts of our culture that are common to many of us, not just some of us.