After all, Black Friday is one of the few days, perhaps the only
one, in the unofficial calendar of American culture that's
associated with a color. Just think about it: with parades and
fireworks, July 4th, New Year's, and even Columbus Day and
Thanksgiving are certainly colorful American holidays. But in
name, they are also color-less. On the other hand, we do have
"Black History Month." And the prominence and popularity of that
February celebration and educational opportunity is probably the
reason that one might, sensibly, wonder, (especially in multi-
cultural Brooklyn): What's so black about Black Friday? It's
About Ink ColorSo here's the answer: Ink. The name, "Black
Friday," has nothing to do with race and class, sociology or
demography. The etymology of the phrase is related, instead, to
a very modest footnote in the history of the practice of ...
bookkeeping. In the pre-Quicken, pre-computer era of
bookkeeping, standard practice was to use two colors of ink in a
handwritten ledger: black and red. Bei