People love a bar­gain, and noth­ing proves this more than the absolute mad­ness that is dis­played every year on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Only one day after peo­ple spend time with their fam­i­lies and give thanks to all the things one has been blessed with, peo­ple turn into com­plete sav­ages in order to save a few dol­lars on stuff they prob­a­bly do not even need. Showing their true nature, women will start a fist fight over a cof­fee maker, men will hit women over an HD TV, and preg­nant women will be tram­pled. These are only a few of the many exam­ples of vio­lent acts that occur on Black Friday in the name of a great sale.

Is get­ting in a fist fight with a com­plete stranger worth a DVD player that is on sale for $30? A lot of web­sites have started hav­ing great deals online so why do peo­ple feel the need to get up at 3 a.m. and lit­er­ally put their lives at risk just so they can save a few dollars?

I under­stand times are rough for a lot of peo­ple and every­one is try­ing to save some cash. I do not feel the peo­ple who are com­mit­ting these acts of bar­bar­ian­ism are the peo­ple that are that bad off. If they were that strapped for cash then they still would not be able to afford a new TV, even if they’d get a Playstation 3 for free. This vio­lence is being per­formed out of the purest form of greed.

Black Friday was given its name because accoun­tants usu­ally use black to sig­nify profit in their books as retail­ers on this day obvi­ously make a lot of money. That should not be the only rea­son, though, why it has this name.

It cer­tainly is black as it strips away the fake layer peo­ple wear every day, and reveals the ugly decrepit thing they really are. Savages stand pound­ing on the glass doors at 3 a.m. demand­ing to be let in, then tram­ple and even kill employ­ees as the doors open and the horde sprints in to the deals beyond.

Many wars have been fought over reli­gion. Black Friday is a war over a reli­gion that almost every­one holds in com­mon: the reli­gion of money. It says right on our stone cold cash, “In God we trust.”

If you went out this past Black Friday, I hope you made it safely home, and you were not one of these bar­bar­ians, but still a respectable human being. I was not one of them as I was in my bed asleep, dream­ing pleas­ant dreams. I’ll hunt for deals on-line in the safety of my home. n