Posted on 05/24/2022 12:46:16 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
UPDATE10:53 AM PT -- 5/4 -- Walmart has officially pulled the ice cream. 7:25 AM PT -- 5/4 -- Walmart has apologized for the ice cream. In a statement to Fox LA, a Walmart rep says, "Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence. However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate."
Welp, here's the latest entry to the Tone-Deaf Marketing Hall of Fame (there really should be one by now) ... Walmart's Juneteenth Ice Cream is MOA -- melting on arrival -- with critics, as one might expect.
As soon as the retail giant started putting the "Celebration Edition" on its freezer shelves ... the Twitter mob sounded off, calling the idea "garbage," and worse. The pints contain swirled red velvet and cheesecake ice cream flavors ... and included the message, "Share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope."
Yes, all positives, but also ... exploitive for capitalism's sake??? That's the tone of the backlash against Walmart ahead of the new federal holiday -- June 19th will mark the 2nd year it's recognized -- which commemorates the day the last enslaved Americans got the news President Lincoln had abolished slavery
Walmart is also launching a similar "celebration edition" for Pride Month, which is also coming up in June. That flavor is white chocolate ice cream with brownies and cherries.
Depending on your viewpoint ... that's either equal opportunity, or equally offensive.
*ouch*
The pride flavor sounds disgusting. White chocolate, brownies and cherries?
Wouldn’t cotton candy be more appropriate?
So true.
It should be hot dogs and chocolate…….
So if I stick to Rocky Road, does that mean I’m racist?
Yes, agreed. I think we should have a federal holiday every month, maybe the next one They add is election day. Make it a single day, national holiday.
Is it well packed with fudge?
Well, better that they pull it than try to tap-dance around the issue.
Juneteenth was a historical event, the day the supposed last of the slaves learned that they had been freed.
From History.com: Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday.
If I were black I would celebrate it. I have no objection to holiday status for it.
What flavor will be Chicago Sundae?
*gag*
No and No.
Presidents Day will be ended soon. The wokesters are going after them hard and it WILL happen soon.
Columbus Day will be ended soon. In some areas, it already is called Indigenous Peoples Day. Another white colonizer will be erased by the woksters as we erase all our history and embrace the new woke idealogy.
It WILL not only NOT be dropped but it will soon be the main holiday of the year.
And make Election Day on April 15.
Next year.
Except this is NOT true. In several states that did NOT succeed, slavery was still illegal until a Constitutional Amendment was passed at the end of the year.
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