As reported Monday by One News Now, Ben & Jerry’s has announced a new flavor of ice cream that pays tribute to former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The vegan ice cream is called “Change the Whirled,” a nod to Kaepernick’s protests of police officers and their treatment of minorities.
Some people are applauding the partnership – but not Randy Sutton, a retired police lieutenant and founder of Law Enforcement News Network (LENN).
“I was pretty disgusted by it,” says Sutton. “Colin Kaepernick has called for the defunding and actual abolition of police departments, which is such a radical, ridiculous idea. And now you have corporate America, in the form of Ben & Jerry’s, not only taking up his cause but enriching him as well. To me, it’s pathetic.”
Ben & Jerry’s says a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the new flavor will go to Kaepernick’s “Know Your Rights” organization.
“My hope is that this partnership will amplify calls to defund and abolish the police and to invest in futures that can make us safer, healthier, and truly free,” Kaepernick said in a statement shared on CNN.
But Sutton argues that when police departments are defunded, those in the black community are the ones who are most affected.
“The reality is that law enforcement cares more about the black community than Colin Kaepernick ever did – and they put their lives on the line every single day to show it,” the retired police officer emphasizes.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Vegan ice cream? What will these loons think of next? I propose cheeseburger ice cream. Doesn’t that make as much sense?
How’s about we all make B&J go under.
Good old Ben and Jerry’s supports Colin Kaepernick, who supports Castro, Che Guevara and “cops are pigs”. That says it all about Ben and Jerry. Oh, how I love communist sympathizers. Send all of these Kaepernick sympathizers to North Korea. North Korea will be a “perfect utopia” for these “deep thinkers”. The “intelligentsia”, who totally lack “intelligence”.
It isn’t surprising from this company. They have reportedly given 6% of profits to homosexual organizations since their inception in 1978. Ben and Jerry were once a ‘couple’ before their falling out.
This is why, i’d rather starve than have to eat their produce.
There products really are NOT that great… way over priced for what you get… If you want much better ice-cream try “Greaters”. It blow this liberal supporting mediocre junk ice-cream away.
I usually just get store brand.. Cheeper and usually tastes JUST as good..
#GoWokeGoBroke
The cries of oppression by millionaire athletes, who have no qualms making millions more by shilling for a shoe manufacturing company whose shoes are made in a country that uses child and slave labor, ring hollow, as does their support for a Marxist organization that climbs over thousands of dead bodies to reach the one body killed by law-enforcement.
i do not support ben and ferrys ice cream and never will.
Time to boycott that ****!! I’m a Breyers guy anyway!!
Just like crapernick, I’m sure ben & jerry support that cop killer mummia also.
After their push for LGBTQ< i thought we already WERE trying to make them go broke.. GUESS we didn't do a good enough job of it.
I hope it falls flat on its face.
Never have tasted their ice cream, sure as h… won’t now. Maybe they could change their brand to B&J ice cream, yeah that ought to bring in more sales.
B&J, Kaepernick & other kneelers, blm & other looters are apparently not very woke. The politicians of the democrat party voted to expand slavery, opposed every effort to limit slavery, crafted laws that forced abolitionists to return runaway slaves, and seceded from the Union when they could no longer get their way. In 1862, Abraham Lincoln (R) and the Republican Party enacted a little something they called the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
So this is what failure tastes like.