Top 25 List of New Flavors to Celebrate Ben & Jerry's Endorsement of Barack Obama

www.FreeRepublic.com ^ | 25 February 2008 | FReepers

[Old Professer]

Which bush are you looking under?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“(Bottomless) Entitle-mint.”

Really says it all. Only flavor needed!

[Old Professer]

As long as it rhymes with Beg-row...

[MilesVeritatis]

White Chocolate Manchurian Macadamia Nut

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Yes it will be taken wrong and I agree that it is unwise to send it to leftists Ben and Jerry. I still think it is funny and not at all racist. The context here matters. They are trying to come up with catchy ice cream names. If we were naming Hillary ice cream it would be pasty white, cracker, vanilla...yada yada.

I see no reason to be hyper-sensitive. Number 15 is the only one I see as somewhat borderline, but clearly the play is on existing ice cream flavors. Ben & Jerry already offer a Chunky Monkey flavor. There is no reason for us to assume racism with nothing more than a play on that existing flavor.

[HoustonTech]

I’m curious you consider the slang term Gubmint racist? Why is that racist? I have heard uneducated White Folks saying that word before so whats your point?

I'm not sure why you are directing this question to me, since I haven't not referred to that, but yes, in this context "gubmint" would indeed be a racist term. Why else would the term be used or thought funny when referring to a black candidate.

For what it is worth I have been politically, socially, and religiously conservative for most of my life, and I have abhorred racism (both positive and negative racism) for that same period, if not longer. It sickens me when blacks like Jesse Jackson blame poverty on "white racism," because that in itself is racist, but it sickens me even more when racists dress up their racism as conservatism.

Making fun of a man's skin color (or even simply highlighting a man's skin color) by likening him to an ice cream flavor is racism no matter what the aim. It's not conservative, and I object to the dishonor it brings upon me and all others who see conservativism as a the best way to live. It shocks me to the core when men make fun of others based on the family to which they were born, and then excuse it base on conservative ideology.

Personally I believe that racism's home is in the Democrat party. Conservatives and Republicans should condemn it wherever they find it.

[Lumper20]

I guess they will use goat’s milk.

[HoustonTech]

Free stolen ice cream that is a little chocolate, a little vanilla, and a lot of fat.

Yes, that is a very good example of blatant racism. You should be ashamed, but obviously you have blinded yourself to a very hateful attitude.

[Rockitz]

Courtesy Ping!

[Lumper20]

Racism. I see joking.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

What is racist and hateful about it? Please open my blind eyes because I do not see it at all.

[HoustonTech]

Old Professer,

I didn’t have to look under anything. It jumped up right in my face, and everyone except the blind would have seen that.

[angcat]

Pissa!

Thanks

[lormand]

...proudly never ate a B&J ice cream

[Y2000]

By endorsing Obama shouldn’t Ben and Jerry now offer all their ice cream for free? Obama makes everything free.

atleast affordable ...

[hawkboy]

Cafe Latte Hope

[HoustonTech]

I make it a habit not to explain the obvious. I would be stupid of me to do it, and it wouldn’t be understood by those who are too ignorant to see what is staring them in the face anyway.

[HoustonTech]

Joking.

That's how much racism presents itself. Racism is racism weither it's a joke or told in earnest.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I make it a habit not to explain the obvious. I would be stupid of me to do it, and it wouldn’t be understood by those who are too ignorant to see what is staring them in the face anyway.

Okay well we will let your charge of racism and stupidity float out in cyberspace without explaination. My charge against you is that you have no case and are therefore afraid to explain your unfair accusations against me.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

explaination - explanation

I am sure that my misspelling was somehow racist and I am just blind to the obvious. /sarc.