Ben and Jerry, owners of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream have come out for the domestic terrorist organization known as Black Lives Matter. The reaction has been swift and decisive, with detractors calling for the boycott of the over priced ice cream.
“Systemic and institutionalized racism are the defining civil rights and social justice issues of our time. 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.
“All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until black lives matter.”
They also refuse to condemn individual police officers and instead blame it on institutional racism among all police, including black policemen and women.
Black Lives Matter. Choosing to be silent in the face of such injustice is not an option. http://benjerrys.co/blm #BlackLivesMatter
The company added that it does not place blame for racism against the black community on individual police officers.
The statement continued:
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.