One Thanksgiving Day rant, one Thanksgiving Day message:
Rant
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In Rome, the holiday that outshines all other imports is Black Friday. Advertisements begin months in advance. No one knows a thing about Black Friday’s origin, but no one seems to care. Black Friday – its name left untranslated – is accepted like the others. To those who will listen, I explain that Black Friday is not a holiday at all, that it is pure advertising gimmick, the product of a long weekend and a genuine holiday that always falls on Thursday. As an American, I’m not sure whether to be embarrassed or offended, since we have a splendid and relatively uncommercialized holiday just the day before that expresses the best in American civic instincts. What could be more wholesome than giving thanks? And what do Europeans import? The parasite without the host, consumption without gratitude.
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Quoted from Anthony Lusvardi, SJ.
I like Black Friday as much as any other storekeeper when the day actually arrives, but I do not like the way it's being allowed to eat up Thanksgiving Day. Not everyone chooses to shop on Thanksgiving Friday.
Message
So, the message...
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