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Practically everything is racist now, from fireworks to trees to criticizing Kamala Harris, so it is no surprise that there are some people in systemically racist Amerikkka who think it is outrageous and offensive to have a day called “Black Friday.” It’s just a day for discount shopping, but after decades of hard-Left indoctrination in the public schools and universities, for some people it is far more sinister.
Campus Reform, which chronicles madness on our college and university campuses (yes, they must be very, very busy), asked students at the University of Florida if they were in favor of changing the name. When asked, “Will you be participating in Black Friday this year?,” one student answered in a way that all her Communist professors would applaud: “Um, no. Capitalism isn’t really my big favorite thing.” Another duly indoctrinated Marxist responded: “Probably not. I just think that it really perpetuates just this consumerism and just exploiting labor for our own personal needs and wants.” Another was a bit more attached to reality, and answered, “No. Because I’m a broke college student.”
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Does this mean that black is going to go the way of negro? I wish they, whoever they are, would make up their minds, already.
BTW- I fail to see many positive black role models on TV. Is Snoop Dog, a dope smoking former Crips Gang member the best they can come up with? C’mon man!!
mortimer says
Nothing to do with black people whatsoever. ‘Black’ means the color of the ink the bookkeepers are using on that day when retailers sell enough volume to cover the cost of their inventory even with a discount.
mortimer says
No one should object to ‘being in the black’, because it positively means you have enough money in your account … no money owing.
This is a distraction when the Bribed-man’s financial fools are putting the US MASSIVELY in the red for generations.
See if you can find a picture of a banknote worth 1 Billion Deutschmarks from the Weimar Republic. That’s the direction the Bribed-man has turned the country.
bill says
Every time I see the BK Friday/week ads on TV I think of it and have expected it. I also anticipate the Biden admin. will rename the White House, very offensive to BKs, to the Rainbow House
to fit in with diversity in USA. I think he might get away with it too!
Michael Copeland says
It is no good whitewashing it.
It has to be black-listed.
Dan says
Before somebody sees red.
Unless they’re yellow.
gravenimage says
🙂
11B40 says
Greetings:
Perhaps using “B-word” for black would be a reasonable compromise ???
Infidel says
Students do know that in this case, ‘black’ is positive, as in having money left over, right? And that the opposite of black is not ‘white’, but ‘red’. If we ever get over our $30T debt, we’ll be in the black too: right now, we’re in the red
That’s what ‘Black Friday’ means: it’s the day most businesses – particularly retail – get to make up for their revenue shortfalls the rest of the year by dumping all their inventory. I never got the real deal, as selling them at a huge loss might do their top line some good, but little for their bottom line, unless they get to write it all off on their taxes
somehistory says
I’ve wondered when they would decide that to call a positive thing “racist” and guessed they’d get around to it sooner or later.
And, yes, they get to count the loss during each “quarter” and pay fewer taxes, then make up their profit at the end of the year.
White is all **color** while Black is the absence. But, that doesn’t matter to those who decide that everything is racist.
Infidel says
White is all color while black is the absence – that’s for light. If one mixes pigments of all colors, one will get black, whereas the absence of pigments of any color is what gives one white.
That said, when talking about colors, both black and white are colors, except when one is talking about monochromatic CRTs (that’s cathode ray tube, not critical race theory here) or TVs
somehistory says
Yes, I paint and have to mix colors to get the shade I want. White is the color I use most often as I usually need to lighten reds, brown, blues, etc. and so much of the world around us is white.
In paintings, there is much to contrast, between light and dark areas.
But, light came first…before man invented paint. In a dark room without light, everything is black. Only when there is white light can color be seen. In the woods at night, all the trees are black, leaves and bark if there is no light source.
Life is complicated. It can’t just be defined with one or two sentences…like the racists want to do in saying that everything is racist. The only racist thing is in their racist minds.
Infidel says
Okay, here is the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-75uJEMZlE
Jürg Rückert says
I wish you a White Christmas!
tim gallagher says
Well said. Yeah, now that’ll have to be changed, Jurg. It’s definitely racist to wish anyone a White Christmas. That song about dreaming of a white Christmas has to go. And snow should be banned for being white because we all know that anything white is terrible. I’m so sick and tired of all this crap. So many of these whingers seem to spend their miserable lives obsessed with complete trivialities.
somehistory says
And clouds….”I’ve seen clouds from both sides now…”
Black clouds are announcing a storm, white say nice, pleasant day…so clouds, both sides, must go.
tim gallagher says
No doubt about it, somehistory, clouds have to go. The way things are going these days there’ll be nothing left at all. I keep thinking about these endlessly offended types of people that they really need to go and get a life and stop trying to ruin everybody’s enjoyment of life with their neverending whingeing and whining about everything under the sun..
somehistory says
tim,
I’ve always thought of black as time for rest, time to pray and reflect on the day that has passed, to sleep and perchance to dream.
Black sky at night allows the stars to shine bright, unlike during the day when the sun shines so bright, the stars are unseen, as though they are gone.
White sheets billowing in the wind on wash days, ice cream once in a little while, white roses and orchids, swans (white and black), …when I caught hep A as a teenager, the “whites” of my eyes turned yellow…White has its places, its meanings, and
so does black have its places and meanings.
It’s a sick and/or evil mind that wants people to see hate in everything…and that’s what being a “racist” means. Hating people who are not just like the hater.
What a dull and boring world if everything and everyone were all the same, without variety.
gravenimage says
This is probably a joke, but in these days who can be sure?
“Split Decision: ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas’ plays as offensive music to non-Caucasians”
https://www.trentonian.com/2018/12/11/split-decision-im-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas-plays-as-offensive-music-to-non-caucasians/
tim gallagher says
As you say, gravenimage, who can be sure these days? That one surely has to be a joke. Recently, I noticed that “Grease” is on the cancel list these days because some of its content didn’t fit in with the attitudes that are considered to be acceptable now. I often do think, when I hear some of latest things on the hit list of the woke warriors, that it is some kind of an April Fools’ Day joke. But, no, no such luck, they are usually serious about it all.
gravenimage says
Yes–I am *so* sick of “cancel culture”.
Infidel says
I know that snow is racist. But what about coal – which is blacker than the blackest of the Blacks? All those climate change activists who wanna abolish coal – ain’t they being rayseeeeest by demanding an end to the usage of that black mineral? This war on coal is being perpetrated by the same party that once considered Blacks as 1/5th of a man. Some habits never change
tgusa says
Snow is the worst offender. Snow starts out White but along the roads, after a time, it turns Black.
Infidel says
Snow is guilty of
cultural, or at least some type of appropriation in going from white to blacktgusa says
Exactly. And the worst part of Snow appropriation is Snow eventually melts away as if nothing happened.
Infidel says
When black coal burns to the extent it does globally, which increases CO2 and creates a greenhouse which causes the white ice caps to melt (at least according to the environmentalists, even though there are some 40 other variables in play here), shouldn’t that be a cause for celebration? Black minerals destroying white solids? Just like Blacks killing Whites is something the Left celebrates. So why are we letting environmentalists hide their racism? ?
tgusa says
I do believe that coal, when burned, changes color. Yes, coal starts out black but like the racist chameleon that coal is, coal changes to brown, sometimes grey. Coal is very sneaky.
Infidel says
So in other words, coal is like snow? Looks like a match made in
heavenspace(?) ?tim gallagher says
Good, witty comments from everyone. It’s all pretty crazy this woke nonsense. Everything seems to be considered racist by some lunatic lately. A while ago I heard that some loony academic was saying that using capital letters was racist. Not sure why. I couldn’t be bothered listening to why. To me, a lot of it is too crazy to listen to at all. By the way, Infidel, this getting rid of coal is a huge issue here in Australia because we make so much money from selling our coal (unfortunately a lot to China) and our iron ore.(to China as well) Just on another issue, one of the oddest things about Australia is that we don’t use nuclear energy. So many countries, the UK, France, the USA, etc, have been safely using nuclear energy for 50 years or so, but, in Australia, we backward fools put a ban on it (I think back in the 1980s). I guess we had so much coal that we could use as a cheap energy source, so nuclear has remained banned. It wasn’t needed. Because there is now a move to stop using coal, we are just now beginning to discuss using nuclear energy and Australia has huge amounts of uranium, which we sell to other countries. In some ways, this nuclear energy ban being a clear example, Australia seems to be one of the dumbest countries around. It’s a great place to live, but we do make some dopey decisions out here.
Infidel says
Well, Australia is a major Thorium producer as well, and that’s the newer generation of nuclear technology. Hope you set that up to power yourselves, so that you too can be energy independent. Also, as far as coal goes, not just China, but India is a major importer as well. Maybe you can put China on allocation ?
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Infidel. Yes, I have often heard that a lot of our coal goes to India. For Australia, some of these changes being suggested these days, such as phasing out coal, could cause huge damage to our economy. There is a lot of awareness that our economy has become far too reliant on China. On the nuclear power issue, things seem to move at a glacial pace out here. Many people are at least becoming more accepting of the idea of using nuclear power here. But I can imagine the process of getting it done will take ages as many things really do go at a snail’s pace here. I don’t get the opposition to using nuclear energy for our power because it has been done safely for 50 years in so many other countries. On some things, Australia seems to lag so far behind. I didn’t know about thorium. Australia is incredibly rich in so many different resources. These days, most Australians do recognise China as the massive, thuggish threat that it so obviously is, which is a very good thing..
Infidel says
Not just that, it would seem to me that Australia could build a nuclear plant smack dab in the center of the country, and have underground power lines run to all the major population centers – Sydney, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, et al. And w/ today’s automation technology, it could be remotely controlled from any city, w/o humans actually having to be near such a plant
When they talk about getting rid of coal, are politicians also talking about stopping its export? If no, then they’re just exporting the issue of climate change to another country. If yes, they’re doing what Biden has done here to oil and gas (although as Hugh pointed out, he has relaxed some of the restrictions)
As far as dumbest country around, yesterday, in the thread on Santa Cruz’s indoor mask mandate, we were discussing Australia’s lockdown enforcement, and I just can’t believe that that discussion was about Australia, as opposed to a communist hellhole like North Korea or China
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Infidel. That sounds like a good plan for nuclear power out here. I imagine that the problem will be the slow pace of discussion and, finally, action to get Australia on board with using nuclear power. There will be an election around May next year and, if Labor were to win that election, which some people do think might happen, then that’ll probably mean the end of any chance of using nuclear energy. What annoys me about it is the being 50 years behind on using nuclear energy here. On coal, yes I think that the idea is to phase out coal for export and all uses. A point often made is that Australia produces cleaner coal than many other countries and, if we stop selling coal to other countries they’ll just buy an even more polluting type of coal from other countries. The lockdowns here in Australia have been pretty harsh with Melbourne being the city with the longest lockdown period in the world and I’ve seen the police get pretty vicious with people occasionally, but Australia is generally a terrific place to live. It leaves any communist country or Islamic country for dead. It is mostly like living in a pleasant, fairly relaxed, western country but with a far warmer and more pleasant climate than most of Europe or the USA. This Covid outbreak has been a terrible thing and, for sociable people, I’d say the necessary lockdown periods have taken a big toll on their mental health. I got fully vaccinated ages ago and I’m not all that worried about getting it, despite being over 70 years old.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Now we have to change the terms used in accoounting. Next we will have to find new names for colors, then artists will have to change their vocablry, too. All computers will have to change the colorof their key boards, etc. erc. KEN
john smith says
Students agree that ‘Black Friday’ should be renamed, because it’s racist.
I have never heard of anything so ridiculous in my life. Next they’ll be wanting to rename the word black, as it’s racist to call a colour black.
tim gallagher says
No doubt about it, john. They will have to find a whole new name for the colour that we have always called black. It’s definitely a racist put down to call any colour black. Calling any colour black has to be cancelled along with almost everything else. These days, everything is bound to offend some whinger.
somehistory says
My son is an artist…uses oil and acrylic…and a long time ago, I called a crayon “black” and he said, “no, it’s African-American.” Teasing of course, but, now we are here in the stupid future when that will soon be the case. Probably not what he said, but they’ll *imagine* up something much worse.
tim gallagher says
Hard to know whether to laugh or cry about about some of this constantly offended bullshit, somehistory. By the way, I saw a fantastic skit sending this up about a year or so back. It was on a British TV show and they showed it on the “Outsiders” TV program out here in Australia. In the skit, the head of the Scottish police tries to apologise for offending some group and, every time he tries to apologise, he offends another group. It was brilliant. If you google “Scottish police chief apology comedy youtube” you should find it. I’m sure that that is how I found it. I thought it was a fantastic take down of this whole constantly offended attitude. I found it very funny. I thought the guy who played the police chief was perfect for the role.
somehistory says
Thank you, tim, I’ll have to look it up. Laughter…the Best Medicine, according to RD…or they once had such, don’t know if they still do.
Laughing relieves stress like few things do. So much less to laugh about today.
tgusa says
Funny and true. The Chief certainly backed himself in to a corner there. Oops, back, corner, who do I apologize to for those?
gravenimage says
Hilarious, Tim! I found that clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrZpuGp6aA&ab_channel=VHSfx
somehistory says
It is very funny. Thanks for sharing it.
tim gallagher says
I’m glad you found the skit and enjoyed it. How could anyone not enjoy it? I thought it was brilliant. Reduces all these constantly offended characters to absurdity. I thought the guy who plays the chief of police was perfect for that role. He looks just right. I guess that the cancel culture mob wouldn’t see any humour in that skit because I truly think a lot of them have no sense of humour about anything. Such a boring world they are creating or, at least, trying to create for us all..
gravenimage says
🙂
tgusa says
All good comedy is based on a degree of truth. Anything else is just not funny.
john smith says
Thanks Tim and Gravenimage for finding that video, it was very funny, but it’s a damn good example as to the direction we are heading.
tim gallagher says
Unfortunately, john, that seems to be the case. I think these constantly offended types are going to create a very boring, miserable world unless there is a fightback against the crap they go on with. I do think that sensible people will eventually say, enough of this garbage, and there will be a fightback against it. I certainly hope that happens.
somehistory says
I noticed the part about “power” sources. Don’t they believe it’s racist to use the phrase “black power’?
I was thinking last night about some “black” named stuff. Like part of an acne problem.
Anyway, I believe the issue became ridiculous when they began to say “people of color,” so that all things with the word “black”…even with things like “black Friday,” due to the color of the ink used in accounting…could then be called racist.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
Students are “Students” for a reason; they have a lot to learn because they are not yet educated with facts, let alone experience. While it may “Feel” good, it really isn’t good to “Let the Inmates run the Asylum” – no matter how entitled they may think they should be the one’s in control.
gravenimage says
Students Agree That ‘Black Friday’ Should Be Renamed, Because It’s, You Know, Racist
……………..
How retarded is *this*? This has nothing at all to do with race, nor is “black” used negatively here. But the crazy train left the station a long time ago…
GreekEmpress says
If they called it “White Friday” they’d be accused of white supremacy—
James Lincoln says
Perhaps whites are also “people of color”.
And if you don’t think that white is a color, try going to Sherwin-Williams to buy some white paint.
They’ll show you at least 24 different colors of “white”…
somehistory says
In creation, white has all of the colors of the rainbow…as proven by shining light on a prism. Black absorbs all of the colors and doesn’t allow any to be reflected back to the eye.
White_ all the colors reflect to the eye
Black_absence color as reflected to the eye. Those who are seeing racism everywhere are just looking to make trouble. When they get their way, it emboldens them to go for another part of life, to steal enjoyment and make people worry and sweat. It’s all about power and control.
tgusa says
Meanwhile leftists are busy blackballing and blacklisting anything and everything that offends one of them. They regularly blackout reports of things hat would reflect badly on their cult. I’m waiting for them to begin going after other terms like brownouts.
Get that Black outta there, every single instance, Black is offensive. These people are nucking futs.
somehistory says
They give themselves a “black eye,” with their constant nonsense.
tgusa says
Careful. The black sheep on the left will be offended by your inconsiderate use of black eye.
Infidel says
Shouldn’t we change the nursery rhyme to ‘Baa baa white sheep’…?
tgusa says
We could but then we would be accused of white supremacy and nursery rhyme appropriation.
somehistory says
What about the old term “black guard”…didn’t they say that about pirates? Webster says “blackguard” were the kitchen servants.
But, I have heard it said in old movies about bad guys.
And “black heart’ to refer to evil people?
Guess I’m pushing it now, but of course, it has nothing to do with “race.”
I had a close friend who had a little boy and they came to see us one day; we all went outside in the yard where the kids could play and run around. Her son came over to her and she said, “You need a bath. You’ve gotten really dirty.”
I asked her how she could tell. She told me and knowing that I am not a racist, she didn’t take it wrong.
I’m not sure people could get along like that any longer, with all of the trouble-makers constantly making their claims that all Whites are racist and their is nothing we can do about changing it.
It once was that if you couldn’t help something, it wasn’t held against you. But, since they call all of us racists, and it’s our fault, but we can’t change it. Catch-22.
somehistory says
Not ” their”…there is nothing…I must be tired.
Infidel says
‘Blackguard’ was a medieval term for villain, as far as I understood. Read it a lot in Robin Hood books that I had, published in England as opposed to the US or anywhere else
tgusa says
Don’t raise that black flag with the white skull and crossbones on it. Pirates owe us all an apology and we demand that, from pirates.
We are in a fist fight with the left, keep punching, and punching, and punching.
tgusa says
In 1937 Bogart did a movie named, The Black Legion. Mostly white guys. they were, way back then. But that covers a broad spectrum of who could be labeled white guys. Even back then older immigrants had more of a hostility towards new immigrants than the indigenous American population did.
OLD GUY says
Just goes to show how stupid some of these radicals are.
Black Friday has to do with a companies bookkeeping going from being in the red or loss column to be in the black profit column. In this scenario BLACK is a GOOD thing.
I guess the next move will be to do away with a black crayon or the color black entirely.
Sometimes I think there are those who will always find something to complain or bitch about.
Then maybe getting hits on your E-account is more important then facts.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
In the big picture, all their petty concerns over “Color” will spiral down the drain of a Black Hole.
Infidel says
That’s ‘White Hole’ to you, Mr Blackophobe! ?