Black slaves were sold at a discount......
'DID YOU KNOW: Black Friday stemmed from slavery? It was the day after Thanksgiving
when slave traders would sell slaves for a discount,'
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DID YOU KNOW: Black Friday stemmed 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 ...
DID YOU KNOW: Black Friday stemmed 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 ...
Origins: "Black Friday" is the (originally derisive, now mainstream) term for the phenomenon that takes place in the U.S. on the day after Thanksgiving Thursday, when millions of consumers who get the day off from work or school crowd into stores for what is traditionally considered the
The use of "Black Friday" as a descriptor for the day after Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the selling of slaves, though, and the term didn't originate until nearly a century after the practice of slavery was abolished in the U.S. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" in such a context stems from 1951 and referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving in order to have four consecutive days off (because that day was not yet commonly offered as a paid day off by employers):
WHAT TO DO ABOUT "FRIDAY AFTER THANKSGIVING"
"Friday-after-Thanksgiving-itis" is a disease second only to the bubonic plague in its effects. At least that's the feeling of those who have to get production out, when the "Black Friday" comes along. The shop may be half empty, but every absentee was sick — and can prove it.
What to do? Many companies have tried the standard device of denying Thanksgiving Day pay to employees absent the day before and after the holiday. Trouble is, you can't deny pay to those legitimately ill. But what's legitimate? Tough to decide these days of often miraculously easy doctors' certificates.
Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore aircraft manufacturer has another solution: When you decide you want to sweeten up the holiday kitty, pick Black Friday to add to the list. That's just what Martin has done. Friday after Thanksgiving is the company's seventh paid holiday.
We're not suggesting more paid holidays just to get out of a hole. But, if you can make a good trade in bargaining, there are lots of worse things than having a holiday on a day that was half holiday anyway. Shouldn't cost too much for that reason, either.
By 1961 the term "Black Friday" (and "Black Saturday" as well) was being commonly used in a derisive sense by Philadelphia police, who had to deal with the mayhem and headaches caused by all the extra pedestrian and vehicular traffic created by hordes of shoppers heading for the city's downtown stores on the two days after Thanksgiving:"Friday-after-Thanksgiving-itis" is a disease second only to the bubonic plague in its effects. At least that's the feeling of those who have to get production out, when the "Black Friday" comes along. The shop may be half empty, but every absentee was sick — and can prove it.
What to do? Many companies have tried the standard device of denying Thanksgiving Day pay to employees absent the day before and after the holiday. Trouble is, you can't deny pay to those legitimately ill. But what's legitimate? Tough to decide these days of often miraculously easy doctors' certificates.
Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore aircraft manufacturer has another solution: When you decide you want to sweeten up the holiday kitty, pick Black Friday to add to the list. That's just what Martin has done. Friday after Thanksgiving is the company's seventh paid holiday.
We're not suggesting more paid holidays just to get out of a hole. But, if you can make a good trade in bargaining, there are lots of worse things than having a holiday on a day that was half holiday anyway. Shouldn't cost too much for that reason, either.
For downtown merchants throughout the nation, the biggest shopping days normally are the two following Thanksgiving Day. Resulting traffic jams are an irksome problem to the police and, in Philadelphia, it became customary for officers to refer to the post-Thanksgiving days as Black Friday and Black Saturday.
In a 1994 article, former Philadelphia Bulletin reporter
The term "Black Friday" came out of the old Philadelphia Police Department's traffic squad. The cops used it to describe the worst traffic jams which annually occurred in Center City on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
It was the day that Santa Claus took his chair in the department stores and every kid in the city wanted to see him. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season.
Schools were closed. Late in the day, out-of-town visitors began arriving for the Army-Navy football game.
Every "Black Friday," no traffic policeman was permitted to take the day off. The division was placed on12 hours of duty, and even the police band was ordered to Center City. It was not unusual to see a trombone player directing traffic.
Two officers were assigned to intersections along Market Street to control the throngs of pedestrians.
The department also placed police officers outside parking garages because the "lot filled" signs failed to deter motorists from lining up on the curb lane outside the garage. This reduced street size from two lanes to one. This caused traffic to back up and block traffic at the next intersection. This caused massive gridlock.
In 1959, the old Evening Bulletin assigned me to police administration, working out of City Hall. Nathan Kleger was the police reporter who covered Center City for the Bulletin.
In the early 1960s, Kleger and I put together a front-page story for Thanksgiving and we appropriated the police term "Black Friday" to describe the terrible traffic conditions.
[W]e used it year after year. Then television picked it up.
One popular alternative explanation for the origins of "Black Friday" is that it is the day on which retailers finally began to show a profit for the year (in accounting terms, moving from being "in the red" to "in the black") after operating at an overall loss from January through It was the day that Santa Claus took his chair in the department stores and every kid in the city wanted to see him. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season.
Schools were closed. Late in the day, out-of-town visitors began arriving for the Army-Navy football game.
Every "Black Friday," no traffic policeman was permitted to take the day off. The division was placed on
Two officers were assigned to intersections along Market Street to control the throngs of pedestrians.
The department also placed police officers outside parking garages because the "lot filled" signs failed to deter motorists from lining up on the curb lane outside the garage. This reduced street size from two lanes to one. This caused traffic to back up and block traffic at the next intersection. This caused massive gridlock.
In 1959, the old Evening Bulletin assigned me to police administration, working out of City Hall. Nathan Kleger was the police reporter who covered Center City for the Bulletin.
In the early 1960s, Kleger and I put together a front-page story for Thanksgiving and we appropriated the police term "Black Friday" to describe the terrible traffic conditions.
[W]e used it year after year. Then television picked it up.
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Barrett, Joseph P. "This Friday Was Black with Traffic." The Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 November 1994. Drum, Kevin. "Black Friday." Mother Jones. 26 February 2010.
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Josiah X
I see how it is.
Yeah, I do. First you fucking crackers cut us out of Thanksgiving by noting it's a holiday where only fuckin' redskins are killed, and now you're giving us all this Black Friday shit. Well, for all y'all uneducated crackers out there (aka ALL CRACKERS EVER BECAUSE THEY'RE TAUGHT IN JEW PRIVATE SCHOOL), let me clue you into a little history lesson THE MAN doesn't want you to hear. Black Friday is not an occurrence that exists the way you think it exists. It wasn't always about fat white people shopping at cracker shops to buy cracker presents for their cracker friends. Like everything in the UKKKSA, it started out having to do something with whitey's subjugation of THE BLACK MAN.
See, you ever wonder why Black Friday is called 'Black Friday'? It's not just cause white culture is racist and wants to make anything full of dread 'black'. It's not just cause a lot of people in a small area reminds them of how my people were treated on those fuckin' slave ships. It's cause 'Black Friday' started out as a black event. Back in the days of slavery, Black Friday was the day after Thanksgiving where all the slaveowners would go into town to show off their best slaves, in the hopes of selling them to someone else. Black Friday gave Whitey a day to buy and sell black people just as the holiday season of Christmas began. You needed a good strong slave to get a Christmas tree, of course, as well as a couple good slaves to serve as donkeys and shit for those manger nativity scenes. Everything relates to slavery, you fuckin' spawn of Jefferson Davis.
The whole concept of the holiday was predicated on slave labor. How else could you fatass crackers get all those lights and reindeer and cornucopia and shit get done? Do it yourselves? Fuck no. You needed proud, strong Africans to do it for you. Hell, we invented Christmas back in the 1970s. It was called Harlemmas back then (the rival holiday, Comptonkkah, showed up two years later. The rivalry between the holidays claimed 35 young men and women over 7 years.). Course, then THE WHITE MAN saw how successful and innovative it was and took his blasted time machine back in time and then watered it down to Christmas. Ever wonder why Christmas has no soul or dancing to it, but a lot of shit about 'white snow'? Exactly. Co-opted and whiteized by Whitey. But I mutherfuckin' digress. As I was saying, black slavery did all the shit work for all holiday preparation. We hung the lights, we made the tree, we carved the turkey, we did all that shit. The turkey is of special note for a reason I'm about to explain for your slow ass cracker minds.
The turkey used to be the original symbol of black power. That's why black nationalist Ben Franklin (he got turned into some lily white motherfucker by the racist history books) suggested it be the US' national bird. But then fuckin' Washington said it should be the eagle. The bald, WHITE eagle. Anyone see a connection here? The black power turkey defeated by some old white cracker bird. That is just a symbol of the oppression the black nation has faced all throughout history. B-Frank also suggested Black Friday to be a day of remembrance for all the black innovators, inventors and founding fathers. Washington and his milquetoast ass fuckers said instead it should be some shit about dressin' your slaves like fuckin' Barbie dolls (ANOTHER RIPOFF, BY THE WAY, OF THE ORIGINAL NAPPITY ANN DOLLS). This is another pattern throughout history. Black man suggests something, white man shoots it down. Another example: Frederick Douglas suggests abolishment of slavery, Lincoln suggests he have a banana on the house. MotherFUCKER.
In the 19th century people like me were sold for holiday purposes while people like you were selling people like me for holiday purposes. Of course you don't fuckin' see how wrong that is because you're all a bunch of racist motherfuckers. You just wanna go on your merry way, buyin' your shit, goin' to your malls, eatin' your fucking turkey stuffing. I'll tell you another reason Black Friday is racist, now that I'm thinking about it. Turkey stuffing. You fuckers just think you made it at some point and then it became a post-Whitesgiving staple. Not so. Us black slaves had to struggle for decades to get that fucking stuffing JUST right. My great-great-great grandfather got his black head put on a pike just cause some fuckin' slaveowner didn't like how the stuffing tasted. Bullshit. Nothing more than cracker bullshit. Yet you still accept it today. The subjugation, the enslavement of THE BLACK MAN for your precious turkey leftover stuffing soup bullshit or whatever the fuck it is you fuckers do with the rest of a turkey. Gorging yourselves on shit is showin' contempt for all the starving masses in Africa. Then you just throw a lotta shit out cause you're too lazy to give it to someone who needs it. Fuck you. Next time we fuckin' create jazz music, we'll tell you fuckin' heroin-addicted poseurs to fuck off.
All your Black Friday activities are steeped in racism, not just the ones which have racist history. Football? Football was originally created in 1831 by that CRACKER Eli Whitney. He thought "now that I made the cotton gin, I don't need my darkies no more". So he cut off one of the slaves' heads, then tossed it around with his friends. Thus, football was born. Now you fuckers watch it in your white man chairs, eat your white man artery clogging food, and root for the black man to tackle another black man for your amusement. Or you wish for the black man to do a funny dance after running really far. As though in your mind running a lot for a black man is an accomplishment. Bitch, that's racist. What, you think we gotta go to a liquor store before we go 100 yards to some fuckin' end zone? Why don't I clap a lot whenever you get yourself a dick over 3 inches, motherfucker? How'd you like it then?
Shopping in and of itself is racist too. Us black people don't have the kind of MONEY
for your flatscreen bullshit because we're tryin' not to get the AIDS you injected us with in your fuckin' CIA jew laboratories in the 70s. But yet you put all your consumer consumption bullshit on your white news stations, cause you gotta show off your richness to black man. Knowing black man doesn't have cable or satellite or any of that shit. What, you think we're satisfied with that fuckin' token Donkey Kong Tavis Smiley on PBS from time to time? Fuckers, we desire actual black people who ain't crackheads or dead bodies on the news. However, it isn't going to happen because you're too busy with your Black Friday coverage of "Oh shit, white people gotta shop! Let's show them shop for things the minorities can't possibly afford because they ain't capitalist motherfucker bitches!" It's one step away from Jesse Helms going on ABC and showing off the brand new negro he got at the Sears bargain bin. I know ESPN already does that sorta shit once a year with their NBA Draft. "Oh look, David Stern got himself another negro to put in the NBA plantation! Lucky him!" But I again digress.
for your flatscreen bullshit because we're tryin' not to get the AIDS you injected us with in your fuckin' CIA jew laboratories in the 70s. But yet you put all your consumer consumption bullshit on your white news stations, cause you gotta show off your richness to black man. Knowing black man doesn't have cable or satellite or any of that shit. What, you think we're satisfied with that fuckin' token Donkey Kong Tavis Smiley on PBS from time to time? Fuckers, we desire actual black people who ain't crackheads or dead bodies on the news. However, it isn't going to happen because you're too busy with your Black Friday coverage of "Oh shit, white people gotta shop! Let's show them shop for things the minorities can't possibly afford because they ain't capitalist motherfucker bitches!" It's one step away from Jesse Helms going on ABC and showing off the brand new negro he got at the Sears bargain bin. I know ESPN already does that sorta shit once a year with their NBA Draft. "Oh look, David Stern got himself another negro to put in the NBA plantation! Lucky him!" But I again digress.
Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas, they're all part of the White Man's conspiracy to keep the black man from achieving his true role in society as ruler over you motherfuckers. The black man is naturally smarter, stronger and better than Whitey at everything. Yet we're still oppressed because the white man uses his laws and jew mysticism to keep us down. But eventually that third guy from Public Enemy will be right and Israel won't control the world no more. And then we'll get our holidays back. You'll be the ones making the stuffing and manning the registers for OUR shops WE shop in. You'll be playin' sports for OUR amusement (hockey is too boring and racist and baseball got too many spics in it now for it to be funny). The tables will turn and you'll know how it feels. Get ready for a fuckin' White Friday where we force you to put coal (ever notice how Santa put the BLACK thing as the shit to give to 'naughty' kids? David Duke gets treats but Malcolm X got coal. RACIST) on the Harlemmas tree. I'll be motherfuckin' laughing then.
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Black Fri·day
- 1.(in the US) the day after Thanksgiving, noted as the first day of traditional Christmas shopping, during which crowds of consumers are drawn to special offers by retailers."folks were lining up to buy $30 DVD players at Wal-Mart on Black Friday"
- 2.Friday, September 24, 1869, when an attempt by a few speculators to corner the US gold market was thwarted by President Ulysses S. Grant's release of government gold for sale, making gold prices plummet and creating a panic in the stock market.
Black Friday (1869)
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Black Friday, September 24, 1869 was caused by the efforts of two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk, tocorner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.[citation needed] It was one of several scandals that rocked[ambiguous] the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
History[edit]
During the reconstruction era after the American Civil War, the United States government issued a large amount of public debt to finance construction. It was generally believed that the U.S. Government would buy back the “greenbacks” with gold. In 1869, a group of speculators, headed by James Fisk and Jay Gould, sought to profit from this by cornering the gold market. Gould and Fisk first recruited Grant’s brother-in-law, a financier named Abel Corbin. They used Corbin to get close to Grant in social situations, where they would argue against government sale of gold, and Corbin would support their arguments. Corbin convinced Grant to appoint General Daniel Butterfield as assistant Treasurer of the United States. Butterfield agreed to tip the men off when the government intended to sell gold.
In the late summer of 1869, Gould began buying large amounts of gold. He never sold this gold. This caused prices to rise and stocks to plummet.[citation needed] After Grant realized what had happened, the federal government sold $4 million in gold. On September 20, 1869, Gould and Fisk started hoarding gold, driving the price higher. On September 24 the premium on a gold Double Eagle (representing 0.9675 troy ounces (30.09 g) of gold bullion at $20) was 30 percent higher than when Grant took office. But when the government gold hit the market, the premium plummeted within minutes. Investors scrambled to sell their holdings, and many of them, including Corbin, were ruined. Fisk and Gould escaped significant financial harm.
Subsequent Congressional investigation was chaired by James A. Garfield. The investigation was alleged on the one hand to have been limited because Virginia Corbin and First Lady Julia Grant were not permitted to testify. Garfield's biographer, Alan Peskin, however, maintains the investigation was quite thorough. Butterfield resigned from the U.S. Treasury. Henry Adams, who believed that President Ulysses S. Grant had tolerated, encouraged, and perhaps even participated in corruption and swindles, attacked Grant in an 1870 article entitled The New York Gold Conspiracy.[1] Grant's suspected involvement also led his presidency to be called the Era of Good Stealings.
Although Grant was not directly involved in the scandal, his personal association with Gould and Fisk gave clout to their attempt to manipulate the gold market. Also, Grant's order to release gold in response to gold's rising price was itself a manipulation of the market.[clarification needed] Grant had personally declined to listen to Gould's ambitious plan to corner the gold market, since the scheme was not announced publicly, but he[who?] could not be trusted. Gould had promoted the plan to Grant as a means to help farmers sell a bountiful 1869 wheat crop to Europe.[2][clarification needed]
A highly fictionalized account of Fisk's life, culminating in a dramatic presentation of the gold corner, was shown in the 1937 film The Toast of New York.
The rock band Steely Dan's song Black Friday, from its Katy Lied album, was allegedly written about this event. [3]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ The New York Gold Conspiracy
- ^ Jean Edward Smith, Grant, pp. 481-490, Simon & Schuster, 2001.
- ^ Songfacts http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160672/locations Retrieved September 28, 2013
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