There are certain circumstances were dealing with politics is totally unavoidable. If you’re at an airport or a train station, chances are a cable news program will be on television somewhere.
Added to that, everywhere you look there is something with a political slant to it that we now have to deal with. There are very few things that aren’t tied at the hip to politics anymore.
One would think that if you were to sit down and eat a bowl of ice cream that you wouldn’t have to sit and worry about political viewpoints, but guess what? They’ve taken that from us too..
The war on Conservatives continues. This time it’s affecting our ice cream choices. The famous Ben and Jerry’s brand is calling us all racist White supremacists because we love our country and love President Trump.
Although Ben & Jerry’s is a simple ice cream manufacturer, the company has always separated itself from the ice cream competition by fighting for social justice causes. Now the company has a message for white people – it is time for white people to step up and dismantle white supremacy.
“The events of January 6, 2021, were not a protest—it was a riot to uphold white supremacy,” wrote Ben & Jerry’s in a statement published online January 11, 2021.
“It was allowed to happen. The mostly White insurrectionists roamed freely and without consequence through the heart of our democracy. The only explanation is that this was allowed to happen because they were white—not Black, Brown, or Indigenous people.”
“In second America, we saw a mostly white mob, encouraged by the president, violently invade the seat of our democracy in an attempt to overturn a free and fair election. It was a failed coup—our democracy in peril. Both of these Americas are us. Black and Brown people have long understood this. They’ve been exposed to the white tyranny that was on full display at the January 6 riot since the founding of our nation. It’s the double standard that undergirds white supremacy in our nation.”