Posted on 09/21/2021 8:03:43 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Ben & Jerry's is releasing a new ice cream flavor in support of a $10 billion bill by Rep. Cori Bush that would replace police officers with social workers and other first responders in incidents of mental health and substance abuse.
The Vermont-based ice cream company announced the limited batch, Change is Brewing, in a press conference Monday featuring the company's 'head of activism', Jabari Pall, and Bush herself.
The cold brew-flavored ice cream, complete with marshmallow swirls and fudge brownies, was developed in partnership with black-owned coffee and tea company Blk & Bold and New York's Greyston Bakery, known for its brownies.
'The flavor supports the vision of the world in which every community is safe and everyone including black and brown people can thrive,' Pall said.
The illustration on the pint features a black woman painting the word 'liberation' on an easel.
'I'm the St. Louis congresswoman and I'm proud to be the St. Louis congresswoman, to be someone whose work was born primarily out of the Ferguson uprising,' Bush said at Monday's press conference, referring to her time community organizing in Missouri after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown.
'For decades, our communities have suffered under the violence of intentional disinvestment and underfunding.
'Our healthcare, our education, our housing, our green spaces all left in shambles while our police spending per capita continued to increase to its present level as one of the highest in the country.'
Ben & Jerry's also partnered with the Movement for Black Lives for the new flavor.
Bush, a Black Lives Matter activist, unveiled the $10 billion People's Response Act in June.
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This idea would be fine if it weren’t also a requirement that cops accompany the social workers. Two or three unaccompanied DV “interventions” would put a stop to the silliness,
That sounds like the police will still be blamed regardless of what happens.
They are causing unilever to lose a lot of money. At some point they’re going to cut them loose or get rid of the product altogether.
I remember when a freeper called one of their new flavors, “bathhouse banana”. Had me laughing for quite a while.
Spot on no serfs allowed in the house.
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