Black Lives Matter Just Became the Latest Crusade for Socialist Ice Cream Giant Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s released a detailed statement Thursday explaining why the company supports the Black Lives Matter movement, and why their customers shouldn’t be “complicit” by refusing to acknowledge the “violence and threats to the lives and well-being of Black people” in America.
The statement insists that they “value and respect” law enforcement, and clarifies they do not place the blame on individual officers. But, “it’s clear, the effects of the criminal justice system are not color blind.”
According to the Vermont ice cream company, systemic and institutionalized racism within the criminal justice system are the “defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time,” and proclaiming that “All Lives Matter” isn’t enough.
“All lives do matter,” the statement reads. “But all lives will not matter until Black lives matter.”
Then there’s the portion that police officers across the country will surely appreciate:
“It’s been hard to watch the list of unarmed Black Americans killed by law enforcement officers grow longer and longer. We understand that numerous Black Americans and white Americans have profoundly different experiences and outcomes with law enforcement and the criminal justice system. That’s why it’s become clear to us at Ben & Jerry’s that we have a moral obligation to take a stand now for justice and for Black lives.”
OK, maybe they won’t appreciate that part. But Ben & Jerry’s is careful to explain why they’re not anti-police:
“We want to be clear: we believe that saying Black lives matter is not to say that the lives of those who serve in the law enforcement community don’t. We respect and value the commitment to our communities that those in law enforcement make, and we respect the value of every one of their lives.”
(But their lives don’t matter until capital-B Black lives matter, correct?)
Because we all know that the Black Lives Matter movement is all about hating “institutions,” and not police.
Speaking out for liberal causes certainly isn’t new for everybody’s favorite social justice warrior ice cream entrepreneurs, Mediaite noted, citing recent examples like the Bernie Sanders flavor released earlier this year and the climate change-themed flavor in 2015.
Founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were also arrested during a political protest back in April, as the multi-millionaire 1 percenters could not in good conscience not fight against big-money’s influence on politics.
In accordance with the $5-for-a-thimble-of-ice-cream company’s “social mission” to educate customers on the social justice wars of our day, Ben & Jerry’s also published this lengthy listicle titled, “7 Ways We Know Systemic Racism is Real.” Number 4 on that list? “Criminal justice.” (For more from the author of “Black Lives Matter Just Became the Latest Crusade for Socialist Ice Cream Giant Ben & Jerry’s” please click HERE)
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