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Walmart Apologizes for Controversial ‘Juneteenth’ Ice Cream After Backlash
Breitbart ^ | 05/24/2022 | Hannah Bleau

Posted on 05/24/2022 12:39:42 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Walmart has apologized for its controversial “Juneteenth” ice cream as pictures began to circulate over the weekend, and it plans to remove items “as appropriate” in response to the backlash.

Pictures of Great Value’s Juneteenth “celebration edition” ice cream began to circulate across social media over the weekend. President Biden signed a bill last year establishing Juneteenth National Independence Day, commemorating the end of slavery.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 186606; 18660619; backlash; freedom; galveston; icecream; juneteenth; texas; walmart
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I didn't know what Juneteenth was before it became a holiday. 🙄
1 posted on 05/24/2022 12:39:42 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its right there with Kwanza. Dontcha know?


2 posted on 05/24/2022 12:41:04 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wish my ancestors were slaves :(


3 posted on 05/24/2022 12:42:48 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My brother’s birthday is June 19. He reached retirement age before ever hearing that “Juneteenth” was a thing.

I say it’s like Kwanzaa — pretty much made up by white people to help black people feel good about themselves.


4 posted on 05/24/2022 12:43:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: Born in 1950

If the lefties have their way your grandchildren will be slaves.


5 posted on 05/24/2022 12:43:39 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“In keeping with American tradition, Walmart celebrates Juneteenth by using black culture to make white folks rich,” one social media user remarked.

Walmart's white liberal elites... like a cherry on a sundae...

6 posted on 05/24/2022 12:43:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Should Biden wear a cardboard sign saying, "WILL WORK FOR BABY FORMULA'?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Did Walmart pull it because a) they had watermelon flavor, or b) they didn't have watermelon flavor?
7 posted on 05/24/2022 12:44:44 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess it’s seen as a controvesial holiday, since it’s supposed to be in memorial of the day slaves were set free.
Maybe people don’t want to be pushed to think about slavery
while shopping at walmart.


8 posted on 05/24/2022 12:44:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ClearCase_guy

So is June 19th “Juneteenth”?

It must be ebonics.


9 posted on 05/24/2022 12:45:03 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

dont blacks own walmart stock?

i am sure it is in most mutual funds


10 posted on 05/24/2022 12:47:28 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But if Wally world made “confederate caramel” they’d demand it to be removed too.

Can’t please them.


11 posted on 05/24/2022 12:47:45 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: lee martell
Juneteenth is basically a day for the Dims to virtue signal and tell themselves that if they had been there they would have been on the right side of things.

Conveniently forgetting that the Dims literally fought a war to keep blacks in chains, and that June 19th was when word finally got to Texas that the Christian abolitionists won the war and freed the slaves.

12 posted on 05/24/2022 12:48:04 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It has been a holiday for freed slaves in Texas since June 19, 1866.


13 posted on 05/24/2022 12:48:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
You can find it in the same aisle as their newest addition


14 posted on 05/24/2022 12:49:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Magnum44

No, it is actually not equivalent to Kwanzaa, which was started by a Marxist.


15 posted on 05/24/2022 12:49:19 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Magnum44

Why does anyone has an issue with celebrating the end of slavery in the United States?

If there is a day worth celebrating the ending of an abhorrent and immoral practice ranks pretty high up there in the course of the country and humanity as a whole.


16 posted on 05/24/2022 12:50:16 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why so angry?

they couldn’t make Juneteenth ice-cream vanilla, now could they? That would stir even more outrage.


17 posted on 05/24/2022 12:51:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: ClearCase_guy

It wasn’t made up by white people, Nineteenth has been around since the first anniversary of Union troops marching into Galveston. It isn’t a national holiday because it has much more localized roots, based not on the end of slavery in the US but specifically the end of slavery just in Texas.


18 posted on 05/24/2022 12:51:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lee martell

I think this is silly.

Juneteenth celebrations and festivals have taken place since 1866, and it’s been recognized officially in Texas since 1938.

These are not for the most part somber holidays - they’re fun ones.

I don’t see a problem with having an ice cream to celebrate it, just as we have all sorts of things marketed to celebrate American Independence.

This is over-sensitivity.


19 posted on 05/24/2022 12:52:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Tell It Right

Nineteenth originally was celebrated by blacks, who at the time were enthusiastically Republican.


20 posted on 05/24/2022 12:54:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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