Posted on 10/07/2016 4:23:18 PM PDT by drewh
Socially conscious ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s faces calls for a boycott after the company announced its support for the Black Lives Matter protest movement this week. “Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights issues of our time,” the Vermont-based company said in a statement. “We’ve come to understand that to be silent about the violence and threats to the lives and well-being of black people is to be complicit in that violence and those threats.”
Sending a pointed message to its detractors, Ben and Jerry’s said: “All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until black lives matter.”
The company posted its support for Black Lives Matter on Facebook and Twitter.
The company added that it does not place blame for racism against the black community on individual police officers.
Rather, we believe it is due to the systemic racism built into the fabric of our institutions at every level, disadvantaging and discriminating against people of color in ways that go beyond individual intent to discriminate. For this reason, we are not pointing fingers at individuals; we are instead urging us to come together to better our society and institutions so that we may finally fulfill the founding promise of this country: to be a country with dignity and justice for all.
In May, the company announced that proceeds from its new flavor of ice cream, “Empower Mint,” would help benefit the North Carolina NAACP’s campaign to repeal the state’s voter ID law.
The company has previously released ice cream flavors in support of same-sex marriage equality and climate change. Company co-founders Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen have also come out in support of the Iran nuclear deal.
But after backing Black Lives Matter, the online backlash against the ice cream-making duo is mounting.
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It’s no longer in my household.
Crappy Ice Cream made by COMMUNISTS and SOCIALISTS!
Goodbye Ben and Jerry. If I were a police, I would let them be robbed.
I don’t know anyone who even likes this trash
Sorry, but my boycott would be more of a continuation of one that’s been in place for decades now.
I’m on board
I’ve moved on to frozen yogurt.
Idiots and traitors.
We boycotted this brand at least a decade ago.
Ben & Jerry’s now supports violence. Even cop shootings.
Good time to shut this BLM crap down
That and Global Weather Crap are the 2 biggest BS Scams to appear in history
To Hell with Ben & Jerry along with the gelatinous muck they mistakenly call ice cream
I’ve enjoyed B&J’s in the past but this is absolutely the final straw,no more.
Anyone have an e-mail that I can let them know of my disgust?
When I found out what Leftie idiots these guys are about 20 years ago, and how they are laughing all the way to their capitalist bank... I never tasted another lick.
I almost wish I ever purchased this over-priced crap just so I could stop doing so now.
Don’t forget CAPOS!
Way over rated and over priced.
ML/NJ
It’s very good ice cream, but they are anti-american pigs.
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