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Mixed-race family asks Blue Bell Ice Cream to change flavor name to be more inclusive
CBS News ^
| June 21, 2018
| CAITLIN O'KANE
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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bluebell; bluebellicecream; chocolate; greatdivide; icecream; racism; thegreatdivide; vanilla
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To: EdnaMode
How about: Mulatto Gelato?
We good now?
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posted on
06/22/2018 9:54:28 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
To: EdnaMode
In addition, Blue Bell will now change one of their other flavors to “People of Color Chip”.
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posted on
06/22/2018 9:54:41 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(CNN - the most busted name in news.)
To: EdnaMode
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.
He is academically talented even though he is clearly retarded. It is always heartwarming to see such achievement out of the disabled.
To: mabarker1
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:15:12 PM PDT
by
Chode
( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
To: EdnaMode
Just when I think that the stupidity has reached it’s peak....
I hope that they change the name to “Zebra,” just because.
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:18:08 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be f Vanceree." A. E. van Vogt)
To: PROCON
146
posted on
06/22/2018 10:22:20 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Social justice warriors, killing the trees which produce the fruit. H/T blackdog)
To: Pravious
Worse... every day, its light during the day... and (GASP!!) dark at night. Clearly, the only answer is 24/7 twilight.
Eh? You mean we really aren't in The Twilight Zone???
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:24:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Social justice warriors, killing the trees which produce the fruit. H/T blackdog)
To: EdnaMode
We could conceive of things more worthy of conservative upset too
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:31:44 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: Red Steel
Its called a Neapolitan. Did you mean Neo-politan?
You always want More-pheus...
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:37:26 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Social justice warriors, killing the trees which produce the fruit. H/T blackdog)
To: donna
I live in the contiguous United States, rain that falls here flows neither to the Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico, nor to the Pacific/Gulf of California.
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:48:10 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Social justice warriors, killing the trees which produce the fruit. H/T blackdog)
To: EdnaMode
Don’t hear her complaining about Brown Cow Yogurt.
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posted on
06/22/2018 10:51:25 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
To: beaversmom
We need to bring back white vans No way...that would be racist
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posted on
06/23/2018 2:34:28 AM PDT
by
eartick
(Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: piasa
154
posted on
06/23/2018 3:08:22 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: EdnaMode
Redbone velvet cake
High yellow French vanilla
Creole chocolate
Octoroon Orange
Quadroon caramel
Jungle fever passionfruit
Mulatto marshmallow
Mud turtle almond....whoops wrong protected minority victim group....my bad
All good now?
I left coal out of it....just for the record and I had a good one
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posted on
06/23/2018 3:14:00 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Hanged not hung.)
To: EdnaMode
Will this manufactured "outrage" and virtue signaling ever stop? Not until we all attend sensitivity classes. Here's a short clip of the perfect one.
Sensitivity Training
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posted on
06/23/2018 3:56:51 AM PDT
by
Jed Eckert
(Just Say No To Rick Scott For Senate, Betrayal is common for men with no conscience)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
LOL!
How you doin up there, Ma’am?
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posted on
06/23/2018 4:17:10 AM PDT
by
Howie66
("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
To: EdnaMode
In my experience it is ALWAYS the white person (usually the mom) in the relationship that sees racism in everything. Especially when she has bi racial kiddos. there is a racist around every corner, now in every dessert. Crazy. I think she just wants to make sure YOU all know she’s not racist, she’s a wonder because she has black kids.
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posted on
06/23/2018 4:20:19 AM PDT
by
ronniesgal
( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
To: EdnaMode
They should rename it “Libtard Brain Freeze”.
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posted on
06/23/2018 4:27:58 AM PDT
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: null and void
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posted on
06/23/2018 4:29:19 AM PDT
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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