Posted on 11/27/2014 10:16:00 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Following the grand jury’s decision to not indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, MO who shot and killed an unarmed Black teen named Michael Brown, racial tensions are running high which has prompted a number of African-Americans to call for a financial boycott of the historical “Black Friday” sales which are highly profitable for retailers during the holiday season.
Joining the call for a boycott is Grammy award winning singer Toni Braxton. The sultry singer took to her Facebook page on Tuesday to post a meme with an image of slaves that reads: “DID YOU KNOW: Black Friday stems from slavery? It was the day after Thanksgiving when slave traders would sell slaves for a discount to assist plantation owners with more helpers for the upcoming winter (for cutting and stacking fire wood, winterproofing, etc.), hence the name…” Braxton’s caption for the meme reads “No Black Friday for me…” While her intentions are good, the information she shared is false. According to Snopes.com, the term “Black Friday” didn’t originate until nearly a century after the practice of slavery was abolished in the U.S.
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These folks just can’t believe that it isn’t all about them. Ignorance and stupidity seem to know no bounds
Re: going into the “red”
reminds me of in the late 80’s I was reading the front page of the L.A. Times an article about a company that was having financial troubles and had currently turned it around, Then I came to a sentence I had to read over and over ‘til it dawned on me what had happened in the composing room and laughed. This company “after years in the red had recently gone into the African-American.”
The LA Times had switched to automatic computer changes to all copy of the term “black” to African American to be PC but hadn’t tested I guess.
And I thought the name Black-Friday referred to the day most retailers’ ledgers went from red to black in the net earnings column. I had no idea it was a day to get that special someone on your Christmas list a slave to wrap-up and put under the Christmas tree while saving some serious bucks too. Who knew?
Not only does this singer have it wrong, but I don’t think Snopes has it right, either.
I grew up in the Philadelphia area, and I never heard the term “Black Friday” used derisively. My father always explained the term as an accounting term. “In the black” (black ink in bookkeeping) means profit, whereas “in the red” (red ink) means loss. The term had this meaning before the 1980’s.
I’m surprised it’s legal to be this stupid.
And all these years I've been doing it wrong.
Stupid folk etymology.
see :http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3231532/posts?page=6#6
Ferguson has struck the primordial fear in blacks. Blacks down deep fear that one day whites will rise up and institute massive genocide against the unwanted blacks. That is why blacks respond in this manner when a black is killed by a white especially if the white has an official capacity. Silly and paranoid? Perhaps from the white perspective but not only do blacks believe it but many feel it will happen in their lifetime.
This really nails the mindset these days.
WhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaT?
Black ribbons?
You know who I am, right?
So there won’t be any shoplifters tomorrow?
He was not unarmed. A 300 pound attacking bull is a killer.
What’s a Toni Braxton? She must be a member of the anti-MENSA.
Don’t you need a BRAIN to be BRAIN DAMAGED?
A gynecologist? Heh, heh, heh.
IIRC, at one point, Braxton had serious money troubles.
By default, average IQ is 100. It's just that the 100 of 30 years ago was probably smarter than the 100 of today.
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