Greensboro Ben & Jerry’s donates ice cream to Oak View Elementary for Black History Month Celebration
Ben & Jerry’s in Friendly Shopping Center celebrated Black History Month by donating over 200 cups of ice cream to Oak View Elementary. Author: Terrence Jefferies (WFMY News 2) Published: 7:51 PM EST February 25, 2021 Updated: 9:19 PM EST February 25, 2021
HIGH POINT, N.C. It’s not everyday you get to join in on an ice cream social, especially during a pandemic. Thanks to Ben & Jerry’s, one elementary school in Guilford County got the opportunity to do just that.
Ben & Jerry’s in Friendly Shopping Center celebrated Black History Month Monday by donating over 200 cups of ice cream to Oak View Elementary School in High Point.
Ben & Jerry have been mixing ice cream with activism for decades
Ben & Jerry joined Rachel Belle in the latest episode of Your Last Meal.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the ice cream equivalent of Cher and Madonna: They need only be introduced by their first names. Best friends since middle school, these boyhood buddies are just as well known for their activism as they are for creating flavors like Cherry Garcia and Chubby Hubby. They’re unabashedly political and have worked for equality-for-all by raising awareness and money for environmental and social justice causes through flavors like Justice ReMix’d, Empower Mint, Yes Pecan!, and Bernie’s Yearning.
In case you missed the memo, Ben & Jerry’s has
been about that action.
Need receipts? Here’s what I wrote about them last year when the premium ice cream company partnered with the Advancement Project to release the flavor Justice Remix’d as part of their efforts “to address the destructive cycle of mass incarceration in our country”:
It’s not uncommon to find posts admonishing the criminal justice system or systemic racism on their website, and since May 2018 they’ve spent over a million dollars on Facebook ads denouncing mass incarceration, advocating for mental health funding and demanding criminal justice reform. And according to the revered ice cream manufacturer, they’re just getting started.
The only surprising part is that it took this long to create it.
Despite an abject lack of on-field accomplishments the media and leftist activists continue to force Colin Kaepernick onto the general public. His most notable achievement has been in opposing the police in this country, a stance that saw him elevated anew this year during the Black Lives Matter upheaval. This led to his being included in the latest release of the
Madden 2021 video game, despite being out of the league for four seasons. Now comes word that Ben & Jerry’s ice cream has created a new flavor to honor the deposed QB – ‘’Change The Whirled’’.