Posted on 06/22/2018 6:06:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The mother of a mixed-race family is asking a popular ice cream manufacturer to change the name of one of its flavors to be more inclusive. Traci Schmidley says she is a mother of six and a foster mom to more. Some of her children are black and some are white. She says it was her 10-year-old son who first noticed the name of the ice cream, "The Great Divide."
"The Great Divide" is half vanilla and half chocolate. The container has a line right down the middle dividing the off-white vanilla from the chocolate brown. When the family bought a tub of it for a celebration, her oldest child said the line down the middle reminded him of the Mason-Dixon line.
"[He] jokingly commented that the Great Divide flavor should be called the Civil War flavor," Schmidley wrote in a blog post on "Love What Matters."
She says her son is "talented academically and adores all subjects, but math and history are his favorites." The ice cream immediately reminded him of "a time in history when our nation appeared to be irrevocably divided," the mother wrote.
Schmidley says her son noticed the mixture of black and white people around their table -- all of them family. They are not divided like the ice cream.
The mother from rural Louisiana wrote the blog post to call attention to the message the label sends and to urge Blue Bell to change the name and packaging. "My husband and I are both teachers and together we teach our children, along with several of their friends, out of our home," Schmidley wrote. "We have a huge dining room table that is almost always full of people, which is just the way we think it should be."
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They already have an Ice Cream flavor named for that family,
......ROCKY ROAD..............
And they are so blinded by their hate that they call other people, (and, even ice cream) "racist"!
The company should respond by only selling vanilla ice cream from now on.
Dumbass of the week!
Why are leftists so obsessed with skin color?
Yes, let’s help them all out and rename their ice cream. I suggest “Affirmative Action” a lovely mix of chocolate, coffee, and almond with enough vanilla to placate vanilla lovers.
And unfortunately, the unredeemed spend their time in trying to get more attention and nourish their egos, and make trouble because it makes headlines and allows them to feel important at last, instead of using it to help others.
What if we could turn all these idle hands into helping hands.
Someone once said about unrequited love: If only desperation were attractive.
Well, if only anonymous, behind-the-scenes work were considered cool.
If they mix the chocolate and vanilla, and throw in a little mocha they could call it Mudslide.
No one could find anything racist in that.
Good question.
Sounds delicious!
The streets in poor minority shantytowns are often unpaved and turn to mud when it rains. “Mudslide” is a derogatory, racist term because it demeans and belittles poor people who campnnot afford paved streets. Also, mud is dark brown in color, so it is obvious that you are mocking our brown skinned brothers and sister. Shame on you, you horrible racist, you!
I don’t want to get too much off topic here, but ...
Wasn’t there once a flavor trio like Neapolitan but consisting of equal layers of vanilla, coffee, and orange sherbet?
It may have been called a “Country Club.”
Can some FRiendly ice cream aficionado enlighten me on this point?
Guess you aren't a fan of their "Frozen Nuts" ice cream, either?
Regards,
Regards,
Honey, try metropolitan ice cream, which has 3 colors, or rainbow sherbet, which has a lot of them.
Well, like Clinton said, you better put some Ice on that. LOL
I’m thinking DeNiro’s Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull.
“I doubt if the kid knew anything about the Mason-Dixon line.”
Of course he didn’t; they don’t teach actual history in schools.
So now chocolate ice cream is “racist”.
They are going to have a problem with this with most women.
Jumped the shark?
They are going to have a problem with this with most women.
Jumped the shark?
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They’ve jumped the shark so many times that hopefully people are waking up and getting sicker and sicker of it.
It’s all backfiring on them and they don’t realize it yet, if they ever will.
Please see my tagline..
This is jus sooooo sweet! Multiculti and diversity too!!!
That’s what I always think about when I’m eating: how my food can be interpreted as racist.
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