Posted on 06/22/2018 6:06:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The mother of a mixed-race family is asking a popular ice cream manufacturer to change the name of one of its flavors to be more inclusive. Traci Schmidley says she is a mother of six and a foster mom to more. Some of her children are black and some are white. She says it was her 10-year-old son who first noticed the name of the ice cream, "The Great Divide."
"The Great Divide" is half vanilla and half chocolate. The container has a line right down the middle dividing the off-white vanilla from the chocolate brown. When the family bought a tub of it for a celebration, her oldest child said the line down the middle reminded him of the Mason-Dixon line.
"[He] jokingly commented that the Great Divide flavor should be called the Civil War flavor," Schmidley wrote in a blog post on "Love What Matters."
She says her son is "talented academically and adores all subjects, but math and history are his favorites." The ice cream immediately reminded him of "a time in history when our nation appeared to be irrevocably divided," the mother wrote.
Schmidley says her son noticed the mixture of black and white people around their table -- all of them family. They are not divided like the ice cream.
The mother from rural Louisiana wrote the blog post to call attention to the message the label sends and to urge Blue Bell to change the name and packaging. "My husband and I are both teachers and together we teach our children, along with several of their friends, out of our home," Schmidley wrote. "We have a huge dining room table that is almost always full of people, which is just the way we think it should be."
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That photo is darling.
Is there anything left that is not racist or divisive?
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Oh, they’re working on it.
Next thing will be not ordering coffee “Black” but “dairy free”.
CW McCall's Wolf Creek Pass.
Wolf Creek Pass way up on the Great Divide...
They should change their company, “Blue Bell” sounds too much like a painful Teenage experience I had when my Girlfriend wouldn’t put out after leading me down the Garden Path.
They should change their company NAME, “Blue Bell” sounds too much like a painful Teenage experience I had when my Girlfriend wouldn’t put out after leading me down the Garden Path.
“This is considered news by CBS.”
These days the MSM spends less time reporting news, and more and more time fanning the flames, so to speak.
Unbelievable.
Blue Bell: "Fine, we'll name it 'Race War.'"
Should rename it “Listeria Ice Cream”
(If True),I am much more impressed that the 10 year old from Louisiana not only knows of but speaks of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Would imagine a huge % of milennials couldn’t tell you what & where, especially if from the Deep South.
(Not meant to be disrespectful of the ‘Deep South’ but it is-for the most part- a regional thing)
Trump now separating ice cream flavors.
Buy some choc and vanilla swirl and get over it.
Great parents. Remember kiddies everything is about race even your ice cream.
“Swirlin’ USA”
The Great Divide is the point where rain fall in America goes to either the Atlantic, or Pacific ocean. The woman is an idiot.
These snowflake idiots need to be told to go blank themselves in big, capital letters.
“...her oldest child said the line down the middle reminded him of the Mason-Dixon line.”
Absolute BullShiite. They don’t even TEACH that in school these days.
Why not scoop the @#$%^&*&@! ICE CREAM from one end to the other and you’ll end up with an ‘all inclusive’ dish of @#$%^&*! ICE CREAM!
OMG! These people!!
What’s truly sad is that these children have been raised to think in those terms.
There is a problem here.
It isn’t the ice cream.
If you greatly enlarge a page of FR text, you will find an extreme change from black pixels to white pixels at the ‘great divides’ all over that page.
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Worse... every day, it’s light during the day... and (GASP!!) dark at night.
Clearly, the only answer is 24/7 twilight.
Leave it to a true racist to come up with some nonsense like this.
Can we get some Japanese people to sue Nabisco over Cheese Nips?
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