Toni Braxton has exposed Black Friday for the sadistic holiday it is and exposes what the true celebration of Black Friday celebrates and opts out. The term “Black Friday” originated with the practice of selling off slaves on the day after Thanksgiving.
The website Snopes disagrees. According to Snopes, the holiday didn’t become well known until a century later when police officers in Philadelphia used the term to describe traffic jams and probably arrest a lot of black people. Think about it, it’s Black Friday and its a term used to describe making money.
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 …Black Friday.
I bet the shopping stores and malls would sure hate it if black people stopped spending their hard earned money on the latest Jordan sneakers and other foolish items. Can you imagine would happen if on Black Friday, black people actually did something smart, like only spend money at black establishments. That could potentially enrich black businesses by a profit margin of let’s say about 300 percent and keep the black dollar in black communities a little longer. Historically, it would be the longest period of time that black people hold on to the black dollar before giving it to billion dollar white businesses.
Snopes claims that Black Friday wasn’t popularized until 1980’s and that is a bold faced lie. Black Friday can be traced back to at least the 1860’s. I don’t trust these blogs. I believe that the term Black Friday certainly does come from slavery and since I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas then there is no reason for me to celebrate Black Friday. Just another holiday that rich white people get to take money from poor black people. I think I will pass on that myself for real!
According to The Damien Zone, they fully back up Toni Braxton’s claim and point out that her findings are accurate, even though countless blogs all over the internet desperately want to debunk it. I imagine that shopping malls and stores all over want to debunk this article and I wouldn’t be surprised if Snopes.com was paid a handsome commission for debunking the story on their website. If black people wake up and know the truth, this could spell a disaster for corporations all over America who desperately take the last bit of change from poor consumers who will spend their last dollar at the malls and shopping stores.
Well guess what? TONI BRAXTON IS RIGHT! The term Black Friday started in the slave trade and was again brought back into use in the 1930s and 40s when white merchants demanded a cut of black merchants weekly receipts — and historians know it. Why is it being denied?
Sources? No evidence, no proof.
Sad how many people are still under the spell in this day and age. If it is not endorsed or spoon fed by/from the fradulent books written by “massa”, it must be false.
I agree with you implicitly… that is part of and has always been the problem with black America. The worst type of coon is someone who doesn’t realize that’s what they are.
it referred to the practice of downsizing your slave population . .before winter hit .l keeping only those essential to running the plantationl.no need to feed unnecessary hands all winter..so the day after Thanksgiving when folks were in town shopping the men would finger the slaves ..buying n selling while the wives shopped more conventionally..it true folks we were bought and sold..u can Google all u want the bottom line is you would be buck naked on the auction block right now..praying you got a Good master..
Mis-teaching history does not compensate for the fact that we were mis-taught. And while it may make people more comfortable in their wrongness, a lot of people agreeing on wrong information doesn’t make it true.
Good counterpoints, but I understand the hypersensitivity to the term, although I always hoped that it meant that retail companies were going to recover previous quarterly losses and bring the earnings into the black before the end of the fiscal year. That being said, hypersensitivity is no reason to jump on every theory or statement and make it a conspiracy or make something else up to balance it ( Kwanzaa, Tommy Hilfiger, etc). Do I feel like they have black history month in February to keep it short? Probably. Do I think they brought in europeans into the NBA to keep it relevant to white Americans? Good chance. Do I think they called it black Friday to reflect on the slavery days? Not buying that one… but I do like some of the history that has been provided. NC A&T…. Aggie Pride!!
You do know we were in agreement right?
Yes we are! Just trying to soften the blow to the ones that are pissed that we are not blindly jumping into the fray.
Sources? No evidence, no proof.
Sad how many people are still under the spell in this day and age. If it is not endorsed or spoon fed by/from the fradulent books written by “massa”, it must be false.
I agree with you implicitly… that is part of and has always been the problem with black America. The worst type of coon is someone who doesn’t realize that’s what they are.
it referred to the practice of downsizing your slave population . .before winter hit .l keeping only those essential to running the plantationl.no need to feed unnecessary hands all winter..so the day after Thanksgiving when folks were in town shopping the men would finger the slaves ..buying n selling while the wives shopped more conventionally..it true folks we were bought and sold..u can Google all u want the bottom line is you would be buck naked on the auction block right now..praying you got a Good master..
Mis-teaching history does not compensate for the fact that we were mis-taught. And while it may make people more comfortable in their wrongness, a lot of people agreeing on wrong information doesn’t make it true.
Good counterpoints, but I understand the hypersensitivity to the term, although I always hoped that it meant that retail companies were going to recover previous quarterly losses and bring the earnings into the black before the end of the fiscal year. That being said, hypersensitivity is no reason to jump on every theory or statement and make it a conspiracy or make something else up to balance it ( Kwanzaa, Tommy Hilfiger, etc). Do I feel like they have black history month in February to keep it short? Probably. Do I think they brought in europeans into the NBA to keep it relevant to white Americans? Good chance. Do I think they called it black Friday to reflect on the slavery days? Not buying that one… but I do like some of the history that has been provided. NC A&T…. Aggie Pride!!
You do know we were in agreement right?
Yes we are! Just trying to soften the blow to the ones that are pissed that we are not blindly jumping into the fray.
sounds like another story that will circulate forever with half the people believing untruths. the “slaves sold on discount” even sounds phony before you read that thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated until much later. then take into account slaves were sold at an auction and their not going to discount them when its a freaking auction, how would that work..duh. its an auction, not “Slaves R Us” you should worry more about teaching positivity and moving forward, because the past is just that, in the past. try and make a better future and quit dragging things down with what happened before. you cant change the past but you can change the future. Tony Braxton is just probably depressed from blowing her fortune and living in a hate bubble these days/ she already blamed Opera for making her lose her money.
sounds like another story that will circulate forever with half the people believing untruths. the “slaves sold on discount” even sounds phony before you read that thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated until much later. then take into account slaves were sold at an auction and their not going to discount them when its a freaking auction, how would that work..duh. its an auction, not “Slaves R Us” you should worry more about teaching positivity and moving forward, because the past is just that, in the past. try and make a better future and quit dragging things down with what happened before. you cant change the past but you can change the future. Tony Braxton is just probably depressed from blowing her fortune and living in a hate bubble these days/ she already blamed Opera for making her lose her money.
Well in all actuality thanks6or shall I say the first successful harvest was held in November 1621 seems to me like a huge jump from 1863 when Lincoln made it a national holiday so factually speaking slavery was still present do the real research ppl speak to family members know your history
Well in all actuality thanks6or shall I say the first successful harvest was held in November 1621 seems to me like a huge jump from 1863 when Lincoln made it a national holiday so factually speaking slavery was still present do the real research ppl speak to family members know your history
This is true, black people learn your damn history!
Coincidence in the names. Do you really believe that the marketing team that coined the phrase knew this obscure original phrase?
This is true, black people learn your damn history!
Coincidence in the names. Do you really believe that the marketing team that coined the phrase knew this obscure original phrase?
Rather it derives from slavery or not, it is still a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and people need to wake up.
Rather it derives from slavery or not, it is still a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich and people need to wake up.
Toni spoke the whole truth
Toni spoke the whole truth