{"id":1055748,"date":"2021-11-25T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T00:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055748"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T00:13:47","slug":"watch-university-students-learn-black-friday-has-nothing-to-do-with-race-now-believe-its-no-longer-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-university-students-learn-black-friday-has-nothing-to-do-with-race-now-believe-its-no-longer-problematic\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: University Students Learn Black Friday Has Nothing to Do with Race, Now Believe It&#039;s No Longer Problematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-university-students-learn-black-friday-has-nothing-to-do-with-race-now-believe-its-no-longer-problematic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP_18327121757643.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Students at the University of Florida believed the name \u201cBlack Friday\u201d should be changed until they learned that it has nothing to do with race.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing a November 18 opinion article in the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/lake-county-news-sun\/opinion\/ct-lns-talk-of-county-st-1119-20191118-hiwgdzsiknferi3iyy5lltizj4-story.html\">called<\/a> \u201cTalk of the County: Black Friday should be renamed so it is not \u2018discriminating and profiling against black people,\u2019\u201d Campus Reform reporter&nbsp;Ophelie Jacobson asked students at the schools Gainesville campus if they supported changing the name of Black Friday \u2014 the day after Thanksgiving on which millions of Americans storm retail shops to get holiday deals for gifts and other items.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think equality\u2019s important,\u201d one student said in response, while another said \u201cI mean, I think it\u2019s definitely a valid opinion. I kind of agree it should be changed just because Black Friday sounds offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet another student explained to Jacobson that they have always felt uncomfortable with the name. \u201cHonestly I\u2019m down to rename that,\u201d they said, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>I don\u2019t like the name Black Friday. I never really have since I was small. Whenever I would go to stores, everything would be jammed packed and I would see workers, kind of, it sounds wrong, but they would lean more toward the lighter skinned people. Like, they would assist them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One student, however, pointed out that a name change \u201cisn\u2019t going to help actual black people\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Once Jacobson pointed out that the term \u201cBlack Friday\u201d has nothing to do with race, students appeared to change their tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s not about skin color then I don\u2019t see that there\u2019s a problem,\u201d one student said, while another replied, \u201cIf you want to just rename it to, like, spare the feelings, then that\u2019s not helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Students Support Renaming &quot;Black Friday&quot;, Until They Find Out The Name Has Nothing To Do With Race\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-75uJEMZlE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the History Channel, the actual origin of the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history\">rests<\/a> with Philadelphia police in the 1950s describing the \u201cchaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the big Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1980s, however, retailers attempted to rebrand the term to describe the transition from operating at a loss, \u201cin the red,\u201d to earning a profit, moving \u201cinto the black.\u201d This rebranding stuck and remains the current understanding of the meaning of \u201cBlack Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at the University of Florida believed the name \u201cBlack Friday\u201d should be changed until they learned that it has nothing to do with race. 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