Walmart Apologizes for Controversial ‘Juneteenth’ Ice Cream After Backlash

Breitbart ^ | 05/24/2022 | Hannah Bleau

[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.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I didn't know what Juneteenth was before it became a holiday. 🙄

[Magnum44]

Its right there with Kwanza. Dontcha know?

[Born in 1950]

Wish my ancestors were slaves :(

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[cgbg]

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

[GOPJ]

“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...

[Magnum44]

Did Walmart pull it because a) they had watermelon flavor, or b) they didn't have watermelon flavor?

[lee martell]

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.

[21twelve]

So is June 19th “Juneteenth”?

It must be ebonics.

[joshua c]

dont blacks own walmart stock?

i am sure it is in most mutual funds

[RedMonqey]

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

Can’t please them.

[Tell It Right]

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.

[piasa]

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

[Pilgrim's Progress]

You can find it in the same aisle as their newest addition

[piasa]

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

[HamiltonJay]

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.

[PGR88]

Why so angry?

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

[piasa]

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.

[Jamestown1630]

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.

[piasa]

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