We have Black Friday. What would happen if we had a White Wednesday?

[slugg]

You heard me. What if we had a Christmas sale named White Wednesday? How many race-baiters would we tick off? I mean hell, look at the Black Friday fights (no need for links; see YouTube)... What would happen if we named it after the opposite of black? Would it be a socio-political disaster for the retail industries? Would there be riots and looting?

Every time I hear the term "Black Friday," it just makes me think this:

Hm.

 

[Moonbeam]

Ironic that when you see black and white it's called being color blind.

 

[Strk]

I guess it is racist if you don't realize the black is referring to a balance sheet.

 

[compuwiz1]

Business writes black or red ink, no white ink. Profit & Loss.
I did once ask why we could not have W.E.T. for a TV station. I later realized we already do......it's called NASCAR.

 

[Spungo]

Business writes black or red ink, no white ink. Profit & Loss.
I did once ask why we could not have W.E.T. for a TV station. I later realized we already do......it's called NASCAR.

Bloomberg is mostly watched by white people, so there's that.

 

[Subyman]

What's with the racial association with black friday? I thought what it meant was common knowledge.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

What's with the racial association with black friday? I thought what it meant was common knowledge.

I've noticed an almost total lack of familiarity with common phrases amongst the 'youts' of today.

 

[slugg]

What's with the racial association with black friday? I thought what it meant was common knowledge.

Because people intentionally look for ways to make everything about race lately, such as jury verdicts and rioting.

 

[OverVolt]

..

 

[Moonbeam]

What's with the racial association with black friday? I thought what it meant was common knowledge.

Black Friday has never meant and doesn't mean common knowledge.

 

[Greenman]

Not to worry gentlemen, I've already kicked off the campaign to rename "Cyber Monday" "White Monday".

Soon you'll all be able to say "I was there when it started".

 

[Moonbeam]

Because people intentionally look for ways to make everything about race lately, such as jury verdicts and rioting.

Yes, it's the same phenomenon as Conservative Brain Defectives' paranoid victim thinking the world is filled with evil out to get them. They know all about victim thinking and get really pissed when others step on their turf and try the same game. Nobody hates anybody more than the person in the mirror.

 

[brycejones]

Because people intentionally look for ways to make everything about race lately, such as jury verdicts and rioting.

Like you're doing here? This thread is stewox and A420 crazy and as stupid as anything posted by TH.

Good job OP, you've hit a new low for discourse around here.

 

[spacejamz]

Because people intentionally look for ways to make everything about race lately, such as jury verdicts and rioting.

like the Master/Slave settings for your IDE device???

 

[Meghan54]

Business writes black or red ink, no white ink. Profit & Loss.

The term "Black Friday" seems to have originated in Philadelphia. And it wasn’t because businesses finally showed a profit.

Sure, everybody calls it Black Friday now, but retail scholar Michael Lisicky says for decades, it was an inside term — first coined in 1966 by Philadelphia Police — because they hated it.

In those days, the Friday after Thanksgiving not only marked the start of the Christmas Holiday shopping season, but it also was the day before the Army-Navy Game, a longtime Philadelphia fixture. And that meant traffic, traffic, traffic, crowds, crowds, crowds, and also drew out shoplifters and other neer-do-wells.
The goal was to make it a day that shoppers wanted to avoid. The negative name started to spread outside Philadelphia a few years later.

Some oral accounts hold that Peter Strawbridge, president of Strawbridge & Clothier, gave "Black Friday" its currently accepted meaning as the day retailers went from the red into the black. But no documentation has yet been found to support that.

Until that time, "Black Friday" usually referred to the stock market crash of 1869.

 

[Kadarin]

Folks, we should all be politically correct here and call it African American Friday.

 

[Matt1970]

like the Master/Slave settings for your IDE device???

And don't forget the always racist master bedroom.

 

[Orignal Earl]

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white

sho be do be doo

 

[master_shake_]

I've noticed an almost total lack of familiarity with common phrases amongst the 'youts' of today.

did you say youts?

 

[Newell Steamer]

And, how many "race baiters" are ticket off by White Parties?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Party

Reality check: none.

But, you go on and keep dragging the earth on yourself and telling us how you are being oppressed and baited for not being able to speak your mind.

 

[Moonbeam]

did you say youts?

It's a branch of the Fugawi tribe and should be capitalized.

 

[slugg]

like the Master/Slave settings for your IDE device???

You had to go there, you racist bastard.

 

[fskimospy]

What would happen? Nothing more than what happens when someone has a white wedding. Ie: nothing.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

did you say youts?

Yeah, you know, young people.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Apparently we now have "Gray Thursday". Close enough?

http://fortune.com/2014/11/28/walmart-macys-target-ceos-others-weigh-in-on-how-black-friday-went/

Wal-Mart Stores said Thanksgiving, now called “Gray Thursday” by some, was its second busiest day ever for online sales after Cyber Monday last year