In this current era of the socially conscious, Americans are once again taking offense at something that was never meant to be offensive. This time the issue lies with “Black Friday” which for those of you who don’t get out much, is the day after Thanksgiving, when stores mark items down to unbelievably low prices and people practically kill each other trying to get them. If you need to see an example of this crazy tradition go ahead and hop on over to YouTube and search “Black Friday Brawls”. You won’t be disappointed.
As for the origin of this new claim of offense, according to tweets by members of the Black Lives Matter activist group, the term “Black Friday” has racist connotations because they claim it was used during the days of slavery, when slave auctioneers would discount slaves on certain Fridays. The problem with that claim is that, like most things that come out of the mouths of Black Lives Matter supporters, it isn’t true. As it turns out the term Black Friday was first used to describe a financial crisis that happened in 1869, when the price of gold crashed, sending the stock markets into a free fall. Anybody with a computer or a smart phone could have searched for that bit of information . . . unlike the people in the video on the next page.
See more people get offended at the term on the next page.
“OFFENSIVE” is just another word for RACISM!
So true
Interesting articles. Most don’t know, some don’t care and it goes to nothing. Maybe black friday needs to be called purple friday or something. Who really cares?
Weak minded fools. They need to be put into Civil Service collars and put to good, honest, hard labor, rebuilding the USA.
So there republicans
They have a right to be offended. I have a right to offend them. Truthfully it isn’t much fun to offend them because it is to easy. One could offer them a job and watch them run.
Some people make their life by being offended. They should get a job so they have less time to think about what offends them,!
IS there anything out there that protesters aren’t offended by?
i am ready …bring it on you Nigerians
we don’t have to be afraid of IS-Terrorists.We have a bigger danger right here in our country!I would not be surprised,if there would be Streetbattles and burning cars and the likes in the near future! But since they love killing each other,we might be in luck!