THERE’S THAT TERM AGAIN, “DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY” !
Just what does that mean?
“Dismantle”! Here is what “Thesaurus. com” says are the MOST RELEVANT synonyms:
- break up
- demolish
- destroy
- disassemble
- raze
- undo
- wreck
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So, Ben and Jerry agree with “Charlamagne tha god” over at the “Breakfast Club.
V’pac reported earlier this week on an interview the ‘club’ had with Rush Limbaugh. ‘(RUSH MEETS WITH BREAKFAST CLUB; SEEMS TO PROVE ‘DIALOGUE A USELESS EXERCISE”)
In that interview, “tha god” offered his ‘solution’ to the racial unrest and protests surrounding the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
So far, as ominous” as the term sounds, we’ve not heard, either from the Breakfast Club or the former ice cream vendors, exactly what “dismantling of ‘White Supremacy” or as “Charlemagne” called it, the “mechanism of the White Supremacy Structure” actually entails.
What do they propose should be “destroyed”, “demolished”, “wrecked”, etc?!
Apparently, Ben and Jerry believe it has something to do with “inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.” According to them, there is some kind of “culture” that requires “inhumane police brutality”!
Does our governmental structure in America require that “inhumane brutality” by our law enforcement apparatus?
If that’s “Charlamagne Tha god’s” and Ben’s and Jerry’s notion of what should be “dismantlled” in this country, what, if anything, should replace it in their view? And what is entailed in “dismantling” it?
Must our system of laws, and the Constitution which undergirds it be replaced?
By what, “Tha god”, Ben, Jerry?…is there a system of government and a means by which to assure order in a society that is better than the one the United States of Americas has?
Well, if so, by golly fellas, let’s hear it! dlh
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Ben & Jerry’s calls on Americans to ‘dismantle white supremacy’ in forceful statement
(CNN) — Let there be no doubt where Ben & Jerry’s stands.
The ice cream maker has called on Americans to “dismantle white supremacy” and “grapple with the sins of our past” as nationwide protests against racial injustice stretch into their eighth day.
In a forceful statement posted to the company’s website late on Tuesday, Ben & Jerry’s describes the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as the result of “inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.”
“What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning,” said the brand, which is owned by Unilever.
Companies including Nike, Netflix, Twitter, Disney, Facebook and Intel have condemned racism and injustice in recent days. But the statement from Ben & Jerry’s is unusually comprehensive and direct, addressing the historical roots of discrimination in the United States and calling out systemic racism, while advocating specific policies to prevent further police abuses and redress racial inequality.
“Slavery, Jim Crow and segregation were systems of legalized and monetized white supremacy for which generations of Black and Brown people paid an immeasurable price. That cost must be acknowledged and the privilege that accrued to some at the expense of others must be reckoned with and redressed,” the company said in its statement.
Ben & Jerry’s, which also publicly supported the Black Lives Matter movement, called on President Donald Trump to disavow white supremacists and nationalist groups that “overtly support him.”
The ice cream maker also called for the US Department of Justice to reinvigorate its Civil Rights Division, and for Congress to pass H.R. 40, a bill that would create a commission to study the effects of discrimination since African slaves first arrived in North America in 1619 and recommend remedies.
