A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished 0
The Newark Star-Ledger’s Paul Mulshine makes a convincing case that the term “black Friday” as it is currently used should be stricken from the lexicon.
Aside:
When I lived in Philly, I learned that term originated with the Philadelphia police to refer to the traffic for the Army-Navy game, which used to be played in Philadelphia (neutral territory about half-way between West Point and Annapolis) on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Then, somewhere along the way, it became a marketing term in our retail-obsessed economy, where companies want persons to spend quantities of money that those same companies are unwilling pay them.
