Posted on 06/06/2020 7:43:03 AM PDT by yardboyd
Ben & Jerry’s has put out a call for customers and ice-cream lovers to “dismantle white supremacy” and “grapple with the sins of our past” as sweeping protests over the in-custody death of George Floyd roar on across the country.
“All of us at Ben & Jerry’s are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protesters,” they said in a lengthy statement on Tuesday.
“We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization, and repression because of their skin color, and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. We have to say his name: George Floyd.”
The ice cream company, which does not shy away from political issues, also condemned “inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy” while demanding justice for Floyd.
Ben & Jerry’s issued a statement on Black Lives Matter in 2016.
The 46-year-old died in Minneapolis on Memorial Day after Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck until he became unresponsive. Video shared online, which has sparked nationwide unrest, shows Floyd in handcuffs and begging for his life.
The Hennepin County medical examiner on Monday ruled Floyd’s death a homicide and said in a report that he died from “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Chauvin has since been arrested but none of the other three officers involved have yet been charged.
“What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning,” said Ben & Jerry’s.
Floyd’s death is among several recent high-profile killings of black people, including Breonna Taylor in Louisville and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Ben & Jerry’s invoked their names in the lengthy statement as well as victims of past racial violence, including Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Emmett Till, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Ben & Jerry’s, which has previously voiced its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, called on President Trump and elected officials to “to commit our nation to a formal process of healing and reconciliation.”
“Instead of calling for the use of aggressive tactics on protesters, the President must take the first step by disavowing white supremacists and nationalist groups that overtly support him, and by not using his Twitter feed to promote and normalize their ideas and agendas,” the company continued.
“The world is watching America’s response.”
The ice cream-makers also demanded that the Justice Department “reinvigorate its Civil Rights Division as a staunch defender of the rights of Black and Brown people.”
“Unless and until white America is willing to collectively acknowledge its privilege, take responsibility for its past and the impact it has on the present, and commit to creating a future steeped in justice, the list of names that George Floyd has been added to will never end,” they concluded.
“We have to use this moment to accelerate our nation’s long journey towards justice and a more perfect union.”
Dismantle a system that takes money from those who actually work and gives it to those who vote democrat and will NEVER get a job, but who have been trained to hate those who are working.
Americans aren’t privileged. America is GREAT because it was founded on a set of principles that became a beacon of light to other countries.
And the damned Marxists have wanted to tear it down for 150 years now.
The evil one has crawled into the soul and mind of the Democrat-Communist and has taken over. All Democrats are evil and too damned many Republicans are with them.
People who make ice cream are those who should be guiding our lives. It makes perfect sense.
I don’t think they buy B&J.
Same pinkos manage the brand.
Virtue Signaling.
There’s a LOT of THAT going around...so obvious...kinda like payments to the Racial Mafia
Yep, the wealthy old Jewish hippies sold out to Unilever back in 2000. B and J are no longer involved in running the company, but the far left hippy affectation remains. Wasn’t it B&J that made a big deal about hiring a black guy to be president of the company, then quietly parted ways when the chosen blackamoor began running the company into the ground?
Unilever is a big supporter of both Obama care and the Iran nuke deal.
It’s a pain, but I don’t buy anything made by Unilever anymore.
Been in Jerry’s, packing fudge.
Know your enemies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever
Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, England, and Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Unilever is one of the oldest multinational companies; its products are available in around 190 countries.[4]
Unilever owns over 400 brands, with a turnover in 2017 of 53.7 billion euros and thirteen brands with sales of over one billion euros:[6]
It has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Lipton (1971), Brooke Bond (1984), Chesebrough-Ponds (1987), Best Foods (2000), Ben & Jerry’s (2000), Alberto-Culver (2010), Dollar Shave Club (2016) and Pukka Herbs (2017).
There is no such white privileged. It is promoted by ignorant antiAmericans.
They should give away their overpriced ice cream to black customers
Ben & Jerry don’t run the show, they sold out to Globalists years ago.
Those names are the Col. Sanders of this generation.
Goodbye Ben and Jerry.
Hello Baskin- Robbins.
Since Unilever is a British-Dutch company (dating back to the 1920s) what are the odds that the founding partners had slave trading companies in their family histories?
I think giving up $7 ice cream cones would be a good start
I’ll bet Brexit figures into this, too.
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