The number one trending topic in most parts of
the world last week, including Nigeria, was Black
Friday, the day after Thanksgiving where stores
open early and slash prices of goods to kick off
the holiday shopping season. But a group
condemning the participation of blacks in the
sales day say it stemmed from slavery. Really?
Below is what they wrote
"This was the day after Thanksgiving when slave
traders would sell slaves for a discount to assist
plantation owners with more helpers for the
upcoming winter (for cutting and stacking fire
wood, winter proofing etc.), hence the name"
http://lindaikeji..com.es/2014/11/is-this-really-story-behind-black-friday.html?m=1

Nah True OP talk cous I was there...

Av always wondered wat it means cos the has never named anything good 'black'

amunkita:
Nah True OP talk cous I was there...

i dnt understand...wat do u mean u were there

ugoogift:
Av always wondered wat it means cos the has never named anything good 'black'

yea...yea

If this is true, then blacks shouldn't be participating in this...

Okay.

Oga ooooo.

so konga and jumia get liver to write black friday for their website when they know what it implies

amunkita:
Nah True OP talk cous I was there...

For real? Wow!!! You must be a well above 200 years old right?

daresma93:
so konga and jumia get liver to write black friday for their website when they know what it implies

FIM, Konga and Jumia are nt owned by Nigerians, so no matter wat e no concern them..

polymathic:
FIM, Konga and Jumia are nt owned by Nigerians, so no matter wat e no concern them..

iyaf hear oooooo

Observing in FHD mode.

Doing research.......


Read

http://m.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30241594

Nigerians be hitting on any thing the white man does or brings


if at all they'll copy that,can't they change the name to something else...like White Friday or something


Damn! We have a lot to learn from the great Chinese

Seriously? well, I participated yesterday because I saw it as a way of making some people smile, imagine selling a thing half its original price.

Though I never knew the origin and meaning before now, I still feel the intention is all that matters......

All the same, Op thanks for the education.

May be he is over 300 years old

ugoogift:
i dnt understand...wat do u mean u were there

White will have to pay for this and others one day.

polymathic:
FIM, Konga and Jumia are nt owned by Nigerians, so no matter wat e no concern them..

So Sim Shagaya is an American?

Alright op, we don't buy slaves now, we buy gadgets and other things ok?

The blacks have really suffered in the hands of the so called whites from time immemorial.

"But the truth is that Black Friday owes its name to the Philadelphia Police Department, which did not have profitability in mind. One thing to remember is that, long before the rest of us started calling it Black Friday, retailers hoped to start the holiday shopping season with a bang by offering “can’t miss” deals right after Thanksgiving. (Note: These days, “holiday shopping season” can begin way before Turkey Day.) People being people, they have long stormed stores, caused traffic jams and been generally terrible to one another in an effort not to miss these deals." ---Google - Origin of Black Friday

Strongbest:
Seriously? well, I participated yesterday because I saw it as a way of making some people smile, imagine selling a thing half its original price.

Though I never knew the origin and meaning before now, I still feel the intention is all that matters......

All the same, Op thanks for the education.

u welcome

Black Friday Facts:

-Nearly 135 million people go out to shop on Black Friday every year.
-In 2010: 212million shoppers spent $39billion for an average spending amount of $365.34
-In 2008, Jdimytai Damour, a Long Island Walmart temporary employee was trampled to death on Black Friday when shoppers at Green Acres Shopping Center, impatient with waiting for the store to open, pushed against the doors to try to get them to open. Workers pushed back to try to keep the doors from breaking, but ultimately the masses won out and over 2000 people streamed in, trampling Damour. The paramedics who arrived and tried to save Damour were also trampled and seriously injured by shoppers who apparently didn’t care that there was a dying man lying at the entrance of the store with paramedics trying to resuscitate him. All total, five shoppers had to be hospitalized at that one location.
-Shop.org executives came up with the bright idea for “Cyber Monday”, even though the Monday after Thanksgiving historically never previously saw any up-tick in online sales over any other day around that time, with online sales seeing their actual peak days between December 5th and December 15th. This campaign has seen marginal success, but not enough for most online retailers to latch on to the idea. Instead, there has been a big push lately for “Cyber Black Friday”, encouraging people to avoid the masses and stay home and shop online. This campaign has been much more successful than Cyber Monday, with sales reaching as high as a half a billion dollars in 2009, which is over double what it was in 2008.
---Google is your friend

polymathic:
For real? Wow!!! You must be a well above 200 years old right?

Broz. Nah 199yrs I dey...

thats good 4 us. Any thing oyibo bring we go follow am like ewu.

adexsimply:
So Sim Shagaya is an American?

Is black friday observe only by Americans.?

amunkita:



Broz. Nah 199yrs I dey...

Oh!! I see... That's a good one, pls where can I meet u? I have lots of questions to ask u, I really want to know what happened 100 years ago.. Plssssss?

polymathic:
Is black friday observe only by Americans.?

smh

polymathic:
Oh!! I see... That's a good one, pls where can I meet u? I have lots of questions to ask u, I really want to know what happened 100 years ago.. Plssssss?

I work @ yaba cementry in lagos, hope I see u dis week.

amunkita:


I work @ yaba cementry in lagos, hope I see u dis week.

Ok good, gonna be thr on Friday night... Got lotta questions to ask

Walexz02:
Alright op, we don't buy slaves now, we buy gadgets and other things ok?

oloun boss, i respect you for this post...donno why we nigerians still think like this!!! we talking about making more money, some folks talking sh!!!t....who cares whether its black or white??