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No, no more than other people. The name came from accounting terminology. Debts, deductions, and deficits are written in red ink. Profits are written in black ink. So the major department stores went out of the red and into the black by that Friday. After that day, the stores are typically earning profits. So it is called Black Friday because of accounting jargon, not race.

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