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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“My husband and I are both teachers.....”
Obviously these two should learn something about geography before lecturing others and above all trying to insist on everything being about black and white. The Great Divide(Also known as The Continental Divide)euns from Alaska to South America. The name had several meanings long before these two were even born. The Great Divide running through the United States is not the only Great Divide in the world. I recently enjoyed The Great Divide that runs through the east coast of Australia.Great Divide is also the name of a ski resort(named after the geo feature already mentioned.
If Bluebell succumbs to this idiocy, I’ll never buy their ice cream again.
When you are obssessed with racism and finding it, you will find it everywhere.
How about if you dont like the name, when you get your crate of it home, you can put a sticker on it and rename it yourself?
Dont buy it.**
pretty much the intelligent way to handle this. Or better yet, teach your kid to be color blind..
I'm actively rooting for the super-v up in WY to blow.
Dont let these idiots know about the black and white cookie.
If Blue Bell is smart, they will use this new wave of attention to their brand, and quickly come up with a new flavor that this family would like. Heads have been turned in their direction, but just for a while.
Maybe shoot a YouTube video or commericial showing this family trying the new flavor out, but only if the kids like the taste.
I would not remove the Great Divide, though.
Where's the white uproar over “Cracker Barrel” ? I refuse to eat in a place where the racist word “cracker” is in the title! “sambos” went out of business and the frito “bandito” was banned.. where's the equality in outrage over racist stereotypes, white folks can't be offended? /s
They should make a flavor called “Precious Butt-hurt Snowflake”.
Americans have too much time on their hands.
“Can we get some Japanese people to sue Nabisco over Cheese Nips?”
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Nah,they’re too busy getting things done -——no time for PC crap.
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They should make a flavor called Precious Butt-hurt Snowflake.
Impossible! they’d complain about the name, the color of the carton, the flavor of the icecream, heck you made it with racist cream.. you can’t fix stupid or crazy... you just can’t because some butt hurt snowflakes are butt hurt over being called snowflakes and some snowflakes are butt hurt being called butt hurt. and some are both!
SJWs are sick, twisted, demented people.
It’s called a Neapolitan.
Yeah because it is all about you lady.
Yeah, if the kid is so smart then he should know this. Maybe introduce some geographic diversity into the household. Dice, piano keys, tuxedos, penguins...life is hard!
It's ICE CREAM!
We’ve raised a nation of dunces.
I am offended that Saltines are called “crackers”. They should be called flour cookies until black people start calling me a cookie, then it is time for another name change.
There should only be one flavor for everyone, and call it “Coexist.”
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