Author's Note: Once again, the template from We Never Learn has been reused. This time, to send an anti-Black Friday message.
Let's face it. there is nothing great about the massive discount mega-sale that is Black Friday because the real truth about Black Friday is that the term originated from the crash of the U.S. gold market in 1869 and had nothing to do with shopping. Another theory about the term's origins could be from the days when the slave trade was not illegal, when plantation owners could buy slaves at a discount on the day after Thanksgiving, but this theory has no historical evidence, however. Black Friday's most famous origin story traces its origins to Philadelphia in the 1950s to describe the chaos that ensued in the day after Thanksgiving as a result of an Army-Navy football game that took place on the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year. Nowadays, Black Friday is associated with the huge discount sale taking place on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, there have been stampedes and fights that have resulted in injuries and even deaths.
At the end of the day, if the death of a Walmart employee in 2008 was anything, it's that we should do away with Black Friday altogether before more injuries and deaths occur...
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