Black Friday is actually an economic thing (day after Thanksgiving in US) the day the companies go into the black/ start showing a profit for the year.

You were thinking of Good Friday.

Oops, you're right, I should have researched that a bit...

Still, apparently the origin of the name seems to have more to do with the idea of a "black day" (a day when a disaster occurs), according to Wikipedia:

> The earliest evidence of the phrase Black Friday originated in Philadelphia, where it was used by police to describe the heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving. This usage dates to at least 1961.

Also Black Thursday (and Monday and Tuesday) (big stock crash Oct. 1929.) probably had a little to do with the naming.

Blind? You should better use a less offensive term. /s

Twitch removed the tag "blind playthrough" because someone complained that it might be offensive to blind people. Of course the person complaining wasn't blind, they just thought they were doing a good deed. Absolute idiots all of them, both the person complaining and Twitch for following with it.

>Should we also stop dressing in black for funerals?

Why would you do that? Wearing black does not imply that a person is bad. "Blacklist/whitelist" implies that whatever is in the list is bad/good.

Black has a negative connotation because of its association with death. That is in fact the origin of the term "blacklist" - a list of people associated with the execution of Charles II's father. It's also the origin of the term "black day" - a day of death and, by extension, disaster.

While this association is not in any way "natural" or necessary, and it's not even universal, it is still extraordinarily old - dating all the way to Ancient Egypt and influencing European culture from there to now. And thus, it is extraordinarily hard to remove by playing language games with one word.

Black tie. In the black. Black gold. Black belt. Whiteout. White as a sheet. White rider. White-livered. White elephant.

I'm not sure if you're adding to what I was saying or contradicting me, but either way, I believe we should be in agreement. Colors have positive and negative connotations way outside of race, they are contextually dependent (your accounting example is very nice, as black is positive while red is negative), and trying to police that is absurd and counter-productive.

I should also mention that I am aware that in Japanese culture (and I believe others in that area, but don't know for sure), the traditional color for mourning is white, not black.