Today is "Black Friday"--or, as millions across the country know it, a time to storm out, half-awake and half-dressed, in search of that Almighty discount promised in numerous Newspaper ads, Magazine ads, TV ads and, more and more these days (!), Text Message ads. At your destination, if you happen to be one of the many involved in this annual (ritual) shopfest, there will most likely be lines trailing the front doors of whichever superstores you plan to spend your years' accumulated scraps at. As you arrive, on-time or off-time, the frigidity mixed with materialism-induced anxiety might arouse impatience that will most likely bring shame and embarrassment afterwards; but it's vital to check yourself before, in the words of the Hip-Hop generation, you wreck yourself.

If only shoppers at a local Wal-Mart branch in Nassau County, New York, had paid stricter attention to that advice when, last year to the date, 2000+ shoppers stopped the life of a 34-year old Haitian guard, Jdimytai Damour, whose body, soul, and humanity was rendered invincible as shoppers stomped, trampled, and pulverized it to snatch pieces of whatever items a young man's life seemed to be worth less than.

It was a few minutes before 5 A.M. when the raucous crowd, tired of waiting in line for hours, grew increasingly cantankerous, until finally giving in to the speed-driven, competition-centered, all-or-nothing sensibility marketers had driven into their skulls for years. [...]
 
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