Do you have any idea why this week’s Friday is considered black?
I had never heard about that special Friday before I entered in close relationship with people living in USA, and when I first heard about Black Friday, I really had no idea what it could mean.
Black activities?
Yes, I know now, that this is a special day for special offers and people assault the shops and fight for the very few REALLY heavily reduced things which, otherwise, they couldn’t afford. But why is this Friday BLACK?
Black is the color of mourning, of death, but also of seriousness – if you think about the clothing of classical musicians in traditional concert settings. You wear a black suit for your wedding, for baptizing your child in church and for bringing your loved ones to their grave – at least we still do that here in most parts of Europe.
Black is considered a non-color, as well as white. It stands for something hidden or even illegal, like “black market” or “black money” and “working in black”.
So why is this Friday BLACK?
Is there black money to be spent? Hidden things come to light? Illegal goods can be sold? Doesn’t seem to me, but I don’t know. Or are you supposed to be serious, well educated when entering the places – instead of fighting to be the first? Or is it something to mourn about? Actually, I plead for the last, as I find it absolutely strange that people become like hyenas in following their prey.
The first time I consider Black Friday
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Nice essay on Black Friday and its American roots. But there is also another wrinkle on that term, and it is linked to the Turkey Thursday just the day before it.
Thanksgiving Day always falls on the 4th Thursday in November, a national holiday established by Abraham Lincoln during his presidency in the great civil war of the 1860’s. That special day has in the 20th century evolved to be seen as the date of the beginning of the Christmas shopping season as soon as stores reopened the very next day.
Merchants always count on that day, Black Friday, to see their balance sheets “go into the black” – that is begin to show a profit for the year. In bookkeeping, black is good, but deficits, liabilities, debts, etc. are in contrast traditionally marked in RED ink. Hence Black Friday was always seen as good.
Of course we’ve always noted that on Thursday we gave thanks for all that we had but then immediately on Friday we went shopping for everything that we didn’t have!