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Is "Black Friday" Racist?
blackquillandink dot com ^ | Nov 2013 | Lillpop

Posted on 11/29/2013 2:58:01 PM PST by doug from upland

By John W. Lillpop

In the summer of 2008, Dallas County commissioners discussing traffic ticket collections were jolted when Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, used the term “back hole” to describe the recurring problem of lost paperwork.

Mayfield’s statement was immediately challenged by Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black. Price belted out a loud “Excuse me!” and proceeded to upbraid Mayfield by saying that the problem of lost paperwork was the unwelcome byproduct of a “white hole.”

That caused Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

This dust up provided a keen insight to the precarious state of race relations in America and the obvious need for change.

Those who believe in fairy tales thought that Barack Obama, although the least qualified candidate for the presidency in decades, would bring healing to America in the area of race relations.

Unfortunately, Obama’s “post-racial” America is not even close to being reality, partially because of missteps by Obama himself.

It was he who accused a white police officer of “acting stupidly” for arresting a black man who appeared to be involved in a crime.

In addition, the Obama administration’s refusal to prosecute New Black Panther members for voter intimidation during the 2008 election serves to deepen the wounds of racial unrest and distrust.

Clearly, when it comes to race relations, Barack Obama is no “healer” nor even a reasonable voice. He would do well to heed the counsel of black entertainer Bill Cosby by keeping his mouth shut.

What to do, then, about the day after Thanksgiving? Traditionally, that day heralds the start of the Christmas shopping season, and is known far and wide as “black Friday.”

Is that a racist term?

What of black sheep, black clouds, black box, black humor, black Monday, black magic, and black helicopters?

Indian summers, Mexican stand-offs, and white washes?

All to be stricken from the vocabulary of those who practice PC speech for fear of being of being regarded as racist?

I say to heck with it all.

Let the whiners and weasels debate the issue all they want.

Just don’t get in my way when I have that $500 46″ HDTV in my sights on Black Friday, mate! - See more at: http://blackquillandink.com/?page_id=9919#sthash.rwaV4Gmr.dpuf


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To: doug from upland
Just don’t get in my way when I have that $500 46″ HDTV in my sights on Black Friday, mate

he's getting ripped off at that price.
21 posted on 11/29/2013 3:25:32 PM PST by stylin19a (Obama -> Fredo smart)
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To: Nea Wood
Even if a white person is just sitting on the couch doing nothing,

Don't you just hate it when a cracker tries to act Black?

22 posted on 11/29/2013 3:25:32 PM PST by PAR35
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To: doug from upland
All to be stricken from the vocabulary

It would make it awfully difficult to order the whip - eh?


23 posted on 11/29/2013 3:26:06 PM PST by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Steely Tom

Stores finally get into the b-word for the year. Comes from finance terms of red ink for debt and b-word ink for profit.

With bo, emphasize that most of the Fridays in a year are red-Fridays (about 90%).

That’s not rasis, that’s Communist.

Maybe call them non-red Fridays.

Oh Cra*! Now I have the Wash r-word skins to mollify.


24 posted on 11/29/2013 3:31:34 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: doug from upland

Who cares? Not me.


25 posted on 11/29/2013 3:32:27 PM PST by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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To: Marcella

We haven’’t discussed that a b-word hole is that color because it totally SUCKS.


26 posted on 11/29/2013 3:36:53 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: Marcella
It looks as if the problem is, blacks have not seen a dictionary as they are lacking in definitions of words, making up their own definitions as they go.

It's profitable, and there is nobody who would dare to stop them. Not in this society, at least. This one is hopeless.

27 posted on 11/29/2013 3:41:38 PM PST by Greysard
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To: Billthedrill
Sheesh. It’s an accounting term. On a ledger you use black ink when you have a positive cashflow. Red ink for when it’s running negative. Ward Churchill probably has a problem with the latter, but I don’t.

Microsoft Excel is racist, because if you set a spreadsheet cell format to "currency," it will display red if it is negative, and black if it is positive. Even Microsoft hates our president.

28 posted on 11/29/2013 3:47:29 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: doug from upland
this is a done deal. It couldnt be revealed until today...under a pre existitant proviso,...I swear...



This Message Not Approved by the NSA



29 posted on 11/29/2013 3:47:36 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: doug from upland

Is White Christmas racist?


30 posted on 11/29/2013 3:51:25 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: doug from upland

I refuse to shop on black Friday. I’m conditioned to thinking about black mobs causing trouble and playing deadly knockout games


31 posted on 11/29/2013 3:54:48 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: tomkat

We didn’t grow cotton. We weren’t even here then, but I hear you. This victimhood scam will never end, it seems.


32 posted on 11/29/2013 3:55:18 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: doug from upland

This is why they invented “curb stomping”.


33 posted on 11/29/2013 4:04:42 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: doug from upland

Lets just rename everything “white” or “caucasian” and then watch the same people who are whining now continue to whine about how “everything’s about white people now”.


34 posted on 11/29/2013 4:08:17 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Common Sense 101

Looks like astronomy is going to become PCed.

No “Black Holes”. (Will have to change the name of the really good Disney movie from “Black Hole” to “Dark Hole” unless that is racially sexist.

No skies as black as coal.
No nights as black as coal.

No black cats.

Tar will no longer be described as black because it might refer to a distant reference to a “tar baby” in an Uncle Remus story.

Then the LaBrea Tar Pit will be known as the LaBreaStickyPit.

The movie “Pitch Black” will now be known as “Pitch Dark” but “pitch” is another world for “tar/asphalt” which is black as in the above mentioned LaBrea Tar Pit” and “Tar Baby”. Therefore “tar pits” are racist; “tar” is racist; and “Pitch Black” is racist.

Also, “Dark” is a code word for “darky” which is racist so the movie will have to be renamed again from “Pitch Black” to “Pitch Dark” to “Sticky Stuff you can’t see in a place without light” - starring Vin Diesel and Claudia Black (Opps, got to change her name to Claudia Absence of Light (Loved her in “Farscape”).

Any movie or show called “The Dark” will now have to be called “The Absence of Light” and “Johnny Darko” will become “Johnny Absence of Light”.

The “Dark Ages” will know be known as the “Absence of Light Ages”.

A “dark tunnel” or “cave” will also be “a tunnel or cave with the absence of light”.

“Dark-Outs” will be known as “a time when there is the absence of light”.

Since the ink/print that this comment is written in appears as “black” , it will now be renamed as “written letters whose color is that which is the absence of light”. No “black ink” here, honkies!

There is no limit to the sheer stupidity of Political Correctness and those who practice it.

I wish we could “Black Out” these idiots from society. We could then resume shining light on intelligence and rationality.


35 posted on 11/29/2013 4:16:01 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: doug from upland
and here i thought it was about putting black ink into the ledger books... as in PROFITS!!!
36 posted on 11/29/2013 4:18:32 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Marcella

Maybe they should call it Red Friday. Oh, wait a minute...

That might be racist, too!


37 posted on 11/29/2013 4:20:22 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Libloather

Omg! I saw those wheels on a car here in Littleton, Colorado. Wife and I just looked at each other and mouthed “WTH??”.


38 posted on 11/29/2013 4:34:18 PM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: doug from upland

39 posted on 11/29/2013 5:52:47 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: doug from upland

If it was meant to be racist, it would be called N****r Friday.


40 posted on 11/29/2013 5:56:55 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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