why do they use the term black friday?

Answer 1

It's after the MegadetH song "Black Friday (Good Mourning)", and basically describes any fiendish act occurring on a Friday.

Americans frequently confuse history. For example, they think they captured the Enigma machine, even making a Hollywood film about it, when in fact it was the British who made this decisive victory that turned the tables in the Second World War.

Black Friday is a confusion of the "Bloody Friday" massacre in Ireland, when the British occupying forces, who were in the pay of the absentee land lords, machine gunned a crowd of striking potato farmers.

U2 wrote a song entitled "Friday, bloody Friday", originally about the Bloody Friday massacre, but they renamed it "Sunday, bloody Sunday" to reflect how much as children they hated being forced to go to Maths class in church on a Sunday. The Irish are proud of their Maths skills, and anyone falling behind in Maths gets sent to detention to do extra Maths homework. As the schools are not permitted to stay open after normal school hours, children have to do their Maths detention at church on a Sunday.

Here are the lyrics to MegadetH's Black Friday (you have to get to the end for the Black Friday bit!):

Killer, intruder, homicidal man
If you see me coming run as fast as you can
Blood-thirsty demon who's stalking the street
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat

Blood-thirsty demon, sinister fiend
Bludgeonous slaughter's my evil deed

My hammer's a cold piece of blood-lethal steel
I grin while you writhe with the pain that I deal
Swinging the hammer, I hack through their heads
Deviant defilers, you're next to be dead
I unleash my hammer with sadistic intent
Pounding, surrounding, slamming through your head
Yeah!

Bodies convulse in agony, and pain
I mangle their face till no features remain
A blade for the butchering, I cut them to shreds
First take out the organs, then cut off the head
The remains of flesh now sop under my feet
One more bloody massacre, the murder's complete
I seek to dismember, a sadist fiend
Bloodbath's my way of getting clean

I lurk in the alley wait for the kill
I have no remorse for the blood that I spill
A merciless butcher who lives underground
I'm out to destroy and I will cut you down
I see you and I'm waiting for Black Friday
Turn me loose!

Killer, intruder, homicidal man
If you see me coming run as fast as you can
A blood-thirsty demon who's stalking the street
I hack up my victims like pieces of meat

Blood-thirsty demon, sinister fiend
Bludgeonous slaughter's my evil deed A merciless butcher who lives underground
I'm out to destroy you and I will cut you down

It's Black Friday, paint the devil on the wall

Answer 2

Because all year, most stores are struggling to keep their finances going. Sale slumps and other problems pop up and cause stores to go into the red....in the negative balance. On Black Friday so many people go out to start Christmas shopping that the stores are able to make up for their year long lack of sales on that one day, often bringing their finances back into the black, or profit side of things. It's also a cashier's nightmare because there never seems to be a moment's peace, but I don't think that's denoted in the term.

Answer 3

You have obviously never worked retail (joke) ; - )

Black Friday References the stress from large crowds on the friday after Thanksgiving.

The earliest uses of "Black Friday" refer to the heavy traffic on that day, an implicit comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Tuesday (the 1929 stock-market crash) or other black days. The earliest known references to "Black Friday" (in this sense) are from two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, that explicitly refer to the day's hectic nature and heavy traffic. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:

Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army-Navy game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.

The derivation is made even more explicit in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:

Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. . . . . "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."

Both articles have a Philadelphia dateline, suggesting the term may have originated in that area.

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Answer 4

Black friday or 13th Friday in any month.. is synonymous with the Knights of Templar.

The Knights of Templars were members of a religious military order of knighthood endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church who devoted themselves to protecting the pilgrims and ensure safe passage to Holy Land...
They flourished for two centuries, going into other countries, acquiring vast wealth and property. By 1304 rumours of irreligious practices and blasphemies had made them the target of persecution. In 1307 Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V initiated the offensive that ended in the Templars' final suppression. Friday, October 13 1307, the knights were arrested France arrested, tortured into "confessions", and burned at the stake.

Answer 5

The day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is frequently referred to as Black Friday.
General Use: One of the major U.S. holiday shopping days. The day many U.S. consumers begin Christmas shopping. The day is heavily promoted by retailers.

Origin: The origin of Black Friday comes from the shift to profitability during the holiday season. Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or "in the red," to being profitable, or "in the black", at a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red indicated loss and black profit.

Answer 6

It has something to do with 1869 when the market crashed. Black Friday refers as the day after Thanksgiving when retailers may see the day as an opportunity to get the company back into black. Also describes the crazy day when everyone goes shopping.

Answer 7

The term "Black Friday" isn't a bad thing... It's a time when companies and retail stores can move their profit margins from "the red" (negative) into "the black" (profit). Simple as that! Sounds ominous but it's isn't... unless you're fighting someone for the last Wii.

Answer 8

I think it was because something dark happened.

Sometimes they refer to the dark ages which simply means we do not know much about what happened around that time.

But black is often associated with some dark tragedy.

I think also people associate dark with fear, ie people afraid of the dark.

But it is not meant as being racist.

Apart from in music. Christians often say the blues is devil music. Dark etc. But what they really mean it originated with black people and they are only being racist, and are jealous.

Because it is often better sounding music than church music, so too is jazz.

I often think God must be bored with much of what he hears in churches. I certainly was in the short time I went to an evangelical church having been invited by a couple that were new there, and thought they would like to take me along, but they left as well.

I do think however God is cool!

PS Isn't it dreadful what is happening in darfur that is real scary...

Strange the US troops do not move there to help, because of mass murders going on, surely it must be more of a priority than Iraq, ...sad also for people of Iraq, can't understand why anyone would want to hurt them.

(Oh! Yes, there is that black and red to do with banks thing, but that is boring)

Answer 9

It is an accounting term. If they didn't make enough money all year, they are "in the red," in trouble, financially. On Friday, they may make enough money to make up for the entire year, which would THEN put them in the Black, hence the name, Black Friday.
Don't worry. Black people and doom are just a part of each day of the week. Just kidding people. Have some eggnog.

Answer 10

Wiki it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%281869%29

Black Friday, September 24, 1869, also known as the Fisk-Gould Scandal, was a financial panic in the United States caused by two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

It has been used since for other bad fridays

Answer 11

Because being in the black, in a business, is to make a profit...Black Friday, is a day of extreme shopping, so retailers plan to be in the black...