Did you know that chess is racist? Sure enough, it is, according to the Southern Digest, the student newspaper at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La.:
Everyone knows that in a chess game white moves first.
This abstractly implies that white has a distinct advantage over black because black has to always take a defensive stand. Some see this as a continuing form of racism and want to change the rules of the game.
A man named Bill Ware has a "plan of attacking racism in chess":
Ware plans on removing color superiority by allowing the pieces to either be the same or different colors such as red, blue, green, etc. The determining factor on who moves first depends on what square the queen sits on.
Chess is played on a grid and each square has a variable of A-H, and a number of 1-8.
According to Ware, whichever queen sits on the square D-1, that is the team that moves first. This way, nether color has priority or an inherent right to move first. . . .
Ware said he wants the students he helps to teach the skills they learned to others. He also wants to eliminate the stereotype that if you're white you're right and if you're black, step back.
This is a good opening move, but it's not nearly enough. Chess is not only racist but sexist, classist and homophobic. How come you can sacrifice your queen, but if you lose your king, the game is over? Why is there an underclass of "pawns"? Oh sure, they're promised they can be upwardly mobile if they only play by the rules, but how often does a pawn actually become a queen? And why are rooks only allowed to move straight? The time has come to demand equality for all chess-Americans and free the game from its checkered history!
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