Joy Behar’s Moral Quandary: ‘Isn’t It a Little Racist to Call It Black Friday?’

Get a clue, Joy Behar. “Black” in “Black Friday” means that if the accounting year started on January 1 and ended at the end of the Friday after Thanksgiving, then most retailers that show a profit would only show a profit (i.e. be in the black) after that day. If the accounting year ended before then, many retailers would show a loss.

Joy Behar is a total moron. I used to listen to her on WABC-NYC AM about two decades ago. She is a no talent who succeeds these days because of the content of her gender and her left wing views. I remember way back when she sandbagged Rush Limbaugh (who I have been no fan of for a long time but back then he wasn’t too bad a messenger in getting out a non-left wing mainstream view-although he was no Bob Grant). Rush at the time actually broadcasted out of the EIB Building in Manhattan (actually WABC Studios) and came on after Joy. The one day he was preparing for his show and Joy calls him in and he graciously comes in and she totally was all over him, really low ball stuff, and in the dollars and cents of it she had a lot of nerve attacking the second biggest act on the station without whom she wouldn’t have the gig.
She represents the modern liberal idea that all voices are equal so her shrill no substance view is just as viable as any.

Just when you thought the brainwashed hypersensitivity regarding race couldn’t get any more asinine or ridiculous…

Can anyone out there STILL not yet see how ludicrous all this nonsense really is?

“Joy Behar’s Moral Quandary: ‘Isn’t It a Little Racist to Call It Black Friday?”

Ah, these high level intellectuals always come up with brilliant statements like that. Don’t forget, Joy, about Angel Food Cake being black, as well as black holes in space.

All this racist language has to be eliminated if we are to achieve our 1984 utopia where everyone is brilliant and unbiased, guided by the propaganda of Big Brother.

If there is a more worthless, stupid show on television other than The View, I can’t think of what it might be right now.

With geniuses like her, our side doesn’t stand a chance.

Of course the meaning of “Black” Friday has nothing to do with our African American friends. The term was first devised to indicate when businesses went “out of the red” and “into the black”. Traditionally the bookkeeper used red ink to indicate loss and black ink to indicate profit.

Theoretically, the time of year when fixed costs were paid and profitability begins was said to be the Friday following Thanksgiving. As clever marketers worked their wares, that Friday began to be a tool of marketing itself.

In order to placate our African American friends, perhaps the best solution would be to outlaw white colored paper and sell only black colored paper. That way, white ink would be required for writing purposes in order to see what is written thereon.

That still would leave us with the problem of using red colored ink to indicate loss. Its not beyond the realm of imagination that the communists would be marching in the streets because of the difficulty seeing red ink on a black paper background.

Ronald

“Goldberg, a black woman, took the meaning to be a positive and that there was nothing wrong with it used that way. Behar, however, was trouble with the word ‘black’ used in conjunction with Friday, taking the meaning as a negative.”

Joy Behar, has to be the stupidest white woman alive!

The above exchange between Whoopi Goldberg and herself only, and all too painfully, proves this in spades. Whoopi Goldberg is by no means a rocket scientist, and she is all too quick to jump on the “that’s racist” bandwagon most of the time; however, here she is demonstrating a depth of understanding as to the seasonal vernacular term “Black Friday,” that is surprisingly clear and correct. It is a highly positive term, that describes the color of the ink on the sales ledgers and balance sheets to be found in retail and wholesale outlets in this country, not the pigment of the skin or the mood of the day.

Comrade Joy might prefer it to be a Red Friday, but that only accentuates her humorless fanaticisms and arrogant ignorance for all to see.

As always, God help us all!

I can’t believe she actually, honest to God said that. Her very existence makes the world around her more stupid.

Joy Behar makes me ill. She is extreme in many of her views. She is the epitome of the negative Northeasterner sterotype. The only reason she has her own show is because she promotes the way, way Left agenda. There is nothing professional - or likable - about her.

Amazing ignorance. Black friday is so called because it was friday when plunging gold prices precipitated the US stock-market panic in 1869. Or so I learned at school…

It’s ironic that Behar should be taking cheap shots at Sarah Palin’s intellect when she has so little ‘intellect’ or education herself.

I assume from this idiotic exchange, that Joy Behar has an IQ of barely normal.

This is a near perfect example; be offended first, determine facts later (if at all).
BTW the facts are that many retail establishments are at a loss for the year (or in accounting parlance in the red) until Thanksgiving. The holiday rush pushes them into a profitable mode (in accounting terms, in the black). It has nothing to do with race, just the color of accounting ink. Note Microsoft’s excel program allows one to color negative values in red, positive in black.

Lots of stores are moving towards calling it “Green Friday” nowadays.

I’ve been waiting to see how long it would be before someone found a problem with this designation. Sounds like Behar needs to get a life. After all, what could the day after Thanksgiving possibly have to do with blacks, unless it’s in reference to the increased shoplifting, carjacking, burglary and gang activity at the shopping malls?

I cannot believe Joy Behar has taken issue with the term “Black Friday.” Obviously, this poor, misguided woman sees racial slurs in every corner of the English language. Of course the battalions of PC do-gooders and their cohorts, the language police, have caused much destruction to the richness of the English language, but that’s another blog snippet.

What would Joy Behar make of Yankee, pitching legend, Whitey Ford or the Labrador Retriever down the street from me who is aptly named Blackie?

Soon Joy you will be the victim of your own foolish beliefs and sentiments. The language police are watching you. Your name is Joy, and that means happiness. If you’re named Joy, you must be happy all the time. Your constant happiness is an insult to the unhappy, downtrodden non-whites of this nation. You must change your name immediately to one from the list of acceptable names authorized by the government. May we suggest LaFahwanda as a suitable name replacement.

It’s ironic that of all the expressions that blacks complain about that allegedly use black as a pejorative, ‘black Friday’ isn’t one of them. As Ms. Goldberg said, “Yeah. It’s in the black, so it’s a huge great thing.”

Ms. Behar, in her ignorance, would remove one positive black reference from our vocabulary.

Green Friday? Isn’t that an ethnic slur against the “Mics”?

Other than to say I detest this woman, her remarks are just too stupid to comment on.

I despise Joy Behar with an intensity I save for only the dumbest socially “progessive”/left-liberal elitist.

In a magazine devoted to talking about race, what’s so bad about discussing the racial aspect of ‘black friday’? By the way, am I the only one who feels Whoopi Goldberg’s comment are verging on comedy, if not intended to be just that.

I thought blacks were always whining that the word “black” never means anything positive in the English language (“black sheep,” “devil’s food cake,” “black hole,” etc.) and here is a case where the word “black” means something very positive indeed, and yet this fool Joy Behar is trying her best to turn it into a negative! In fact, I think Behar was baiting Goldberg and blacks in general with this stupid comment, as if blacks need any encouragement to take offense at the most innocuous things. Behar ought to be ashamed, but of course she won’t be.

As red ink means losses should that be taken as a racial insult to Indians?

All you are right about the original meaning of black friday. But stereotypes are true. Blacks are what they are. Now black friday is a day where whites see blacks stealing, trampling people to death, and behaving like a bunch of unorganized animals on the news. So, it is racist; racist because they act black.

Joy Behar has so little judgment for something of content to talk about on her show that she tries like all narrow minded low IQ liberals to invent A little contraversy (when things are dull pull out the old reliable, the race card) what A dumb twit she is.

#20’s observation about RED ink is spot on! If the Native Ams. were as numerous and vocal as blacks, I’m sure the media would be publicizing this “insult”!
Behar and much of cable TV is now mostly drivel. People just ramble on about anything, often using the wrong word and misplaced concept. My husband points out many of the stupid remarks made; I personally seldom watch anything on the tube anymore.

What a complete idiot. No wonder her daytime TV show is so popular!

It’s stupid, but no surprise, coming from someone who lives and breathes the leftist philosophy that all Whites are racist, and American society is racist, and the Constitution is racist, and air is racist

I have to laugh at this, because just the other day I said to a friend of mine that it was only a matter of time until some left-wing wacko said the term “Black Friday” was “racist”. Don’t these black supremacists have anything else to think about???

This dippy dame’s comment reminds me of my early teaching days when feminist baloney was all the rage. At a meeting, someone used the word ‘boycott’.

She flew into a rage and demanded that we refer to the word as…….person-cott!

This, mind you, was from a college graduate and history major who should have known the etymology of that historical word.

This ditz Behar appears to be a race baiter. We should try to get her off the air. There seems to be a lot of people, almost all are liberals, out there trying to agitate the races. Chris Matthews, Janeane Garafalo, Behar, Keith Olbermann, etc.,etc. Liberals must always use the race card.

I saw the broadcast—it was as if a million brain cells screamed out and then were silenced.

Seriously though, The View is a waste of IQ points for anyone who watches it.

That clip from The View was played on O’Reilly the other night. Nothing she says means anything to me.

Joy Behar is a moron and anybody that takes anything she says as serious, is a moron. She is a washed up comedian whose only asset (if you can call it that) is her looney left beliefs. That puts her smack in the middle of the main stream media that as we all know, has been completely hijacked by loony, 60’s has beens.

I take Joy Behar as about as serious as an ant under my shoe.

It is extremely frustrating that people like this get so much coverage.

Isn’t It a Little Racist to Call It Black Friday?

Yes. It should always be referred to as “African-American Friday.”

Joy— when even Whoopi Goldberg is smarter than you are, it’s time to hang it up!!

The cry of racism is the equivalent of a modern day witch hunt!

Almost as funny as the Black judge in dallas that was offended by the “Black Hole” coment.
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html

In a related story, St. Louis City has a black woman elected comptroller, whose last name is Green. She was St. Louis City’s first black comptroller, in fact elected on the same day as St. Louis’s first black mayor. The first time she ran for re-election, she was on a local black talk radio show, touting her accomplishments of keeping St. Louis City’s budget profitable. (Even though the Board of Aldermen allocate the budget.) She said that her campaign slogan, based on her “keeping the city profitable,” is that St. Louis needs to stay “in the Green” by re-electing her, a double entendre also involving her name. I called the show up asking her and the host:

“Don’t you mean in the black?”

Two can play at the game of double entendres.

I am terribly offended by the saying, “a little white lie.”

I’ve always assumed the term “Black Friday” was a play on the 1977 film “Black Sunday,” involving a terrorist attack on the Super Bowl. Does this mean that the film was Racist, too? I can’t wait to hear Joy’s [sic] insightful analysis.

I agree with Joy. We should call the day after Thanksgiving Monochrome Friday.

This farcical language issue reminds me of the Brooklyn ,N.Y. restaurarteur,a recent Russian immigrant, who was forced by Black protests to drop the restaurants’ name ,then called “The Caucasian Restaurant” to something else .