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Ben & Jerry’s, makers of overpriced stale ice cream that, no matter the flavor, always smells a little like cleaning fluid, keeps bouncing from one dumb controversy to another. First, under the influence of its pro-Hezbollah equity person decided to boycott Israel, leading to counter-boycotts and an eventual surrender, then it got caught using child labor, and now it decided to use July 4th to demand the dismantling of America.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” the ice cream brand tweeted on the national holiday.
The company went further on its website, saying traditional Independence Day celebrations can “distract” from “an essential truth.”
“Ah, the Fourth of July. Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display,” the Vermont-based company said. “The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land.”
Ben & Jerry’s, which is in Vermont, then demanded that America turn over Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills to the Indians, where the company conveniently has no facilities.
But if we’re turning over land to the Indians, why not start with the land that the child labor social justice ice cream place is located on?
An Indigenous tribe descended from the Native American nation that originally controlled the land in Vermont the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters is located on would be interested in taking it back, its chief has said, after the company publicly called for “stolen” lands to be returned.
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation—one of four descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont—told Newsweek it was “always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands,” but that the company had yet to approach them.
Maps show that the Abenaki—a confederacy of several tribes who united against encroachment from a rival tribal confederacy—controlled an area that stretched from the northern border of Massachusetts in the south to New Brunswick, Canada, in the north, and from the St. Lawrence River in the west to the East Coast.
This would put Ben & Jerry’s headquarters, located in a business park in southern Burlington, within the western portion of this historic territory—though it does not sit in any modern-day tribal lands.
“We are always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands throughout our traditional territories and providing opportunities to uplift our communities,” Stevens said when asked about whether the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe would want to see the property handed over to Indigenous people.
While the chief said that the tribe “has not been approached in regards to any land back opportunities from Ben & Jerry’s,” he added: “If and when we are approached, many conversations and discussions will need to take place to determine the best path forward for all involved.”
And then there are the homes of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Jerry appears to have an 11-acre property in Williston, VT, as well as a property in Florida’s Pompano Beach. Ben appears to have a good deal more properties. It’s time to return this “stolen land” to the Indians.
Also set all the child laborers free too.
ALL the land belongs to God. Now if I remember correctly, the only land God has given to anyone is Israel and the descendants of Ishmael. Is that correct? We buy and sell land as if God does not own it. How? Because right now God allows it. This is the “Times of the Gentiles”. We are in the Grace Age otherwise know as “The Church Age” and also known as “The 6th Dispensation”.
Just because the Indians lived on the land doesn’t mean that they “owned” the land. Doesn’t mean that the land was theirs. Same thing is true for us even tho we think the land is ours and act as if it does.
Useful lies aren’t discarded because they’re lies; they’re repeated because they’re useful.
Methinks that casting the Maker of the Heavens and the Earth as a landlord or real estate broker works to stimie rather than advance understanding of property and property rights. As individuals, and as members of collectives (such as tribes and true believers), we expect to get and be able to keep what we work for. But we also expect others to try to take our stuff away, just as they expect us to try to take their stuff away. We make and we take. We keep and we lose. It was ever thus.
Okay B & J before you start waggling your rightists Finger in our faces and demand we return America to the Indians you can return the area your Ice Cream Plant in build on to them Get Going Now
There’s an interesting phrase in there – “…a confederacy of several tribes who united against encroachment from a rival tribal confederacy”
I.e. Indian tribes as a whole did not have static borders. Many expanded onto others, many shrunk, moved, or were wiped out. The land “belonged” to whichever tribe took it. Who is the rightful owner? Who does land get returned to? The most recent “owner”? That would be America.
Good, but obviously B&J’s is not going to happily surrender their American status profit margin. A bunch of CO2 energy recycling braves are what we need right now to deprive America of ice cream. At some point they might even start paying attention which is the first thing they don’t want to pay.
The Labor Board is investigating the effects of working hatless in freezers.
Bonkers
Seriously, there is an underlying issue, hunter-gatherer cultures and nomadic raider cultures, confronting agricultural cultures and technologically advanced cultures. Cultural views on property may be incompatible, for example.
The Abenakis weren’t hunter gatherers, they grew crops of corn, beans, squash & etc–remember the 1st Thanksgiving?
They also fought for the French. The St Francis Raid by Robert Rogers was the basis of the novel, then 1939 movie Northwest Passage. [ 1939 was the best year for movies ever. ]
Spencer Tracey (as Rogers) to the Red Coat commander.
Thanks Sid! Often they leave out the point that the Indians fought for the French and other of our enemies.
Corn (bad for the teeth and has no nutritional value,) beans, (only in Mexico,) and wild squash. Not exactly farmers and the Indians DEFINITELY hunted and gathered.
You’re a moron.
Thanks Jeff! He completely missed my point as well.
Also Ben and Jerry are climate criminals due to farting cows and using plants to feed cows to make sugery health detroying products insead of eating only plants, If that does not send them to prison and confiscation of all their money I dont know waht to say. Somehow they must be racist also, ice cream to me is identified with evil white new england crakers
As if anybody ha more contempt than the contempt Trumpoid draws contempt from.
You better start doing a lot better than what you’re doing if you know what you’redoing which you don’t know what you’re doing. I mean if you care? Which is sincerely in doubt.
Umgowah! Two scoops for the Big Guy.
B&J need to be warned: Don’t ask at whom the finger points, for it points at you.
Just as irresponsible as claiming were all Illegal Aliens and were the Trespassers these liberal Scatter Brains have a lot to learn about the Truth
Animal Lives Matter.
This bipedal invasion by humanoids is unacceptable.
Invasive species should not be tolerated.
Critters unite! Trap and skin the humans! Start with Ben & Jerry.
Follow up with the “indigenous” tribes. In alphabetic order. Beginning with the abenaki.
Birds Lives Matter please keep your pets confined and quit allowing them to roam the area harming the Birds please keep your Four Footed with Fur at Home or on a leash
I tried calling them all day yesterday. I think they are getting a lot of calls. I’d like to take a visit with the family for when they plan on turning their property back to the real owners. I’ll try again on Monday.
We paid for the land fair and square with a chest full of beads and trinkets.
Indigenous? Invaders who came from Asia along the Bering Strait land bridge in the last Ice Age and originated in swarthy Central Asia?
The last time I checked, the Salutrian Cactus Hill site in Virginia is 9000 years older than the oldest “indigenous” artifact, the clovis tip spearhead. And the clovis tip is shaped just like the Salutrian ones. Quite the coincidence, Was evil whitey in North America first? Did he creep along the ocean ice sheets and hang out here with the deadly megafauna before those killers from Central Asia came along? Who knows.
And oh, yeah. Those foot prints in stone in New Mexico dated at a convenient 23,000 years old (1000 years older than Cactus Hill) are bullshit. It’s impossible to date footsteps in stone.
I was born in CA. I’m indigenous. I want the whole state! I’d give everybody free ice cream. No No Bum & Jerkoff’s, though. There’s an Italian deli here in San Jose that has great gelato, although not enough to feed a state. Maybe Baskin Robbins could step up. I would be an enlightened tyrant. I’d only conduct executions on Fridays.
lol, thanks Jeff 🙂
I was just thinking yesterday that maybe the land should be returned to Clovis Man 🙂
Good luck finding him! Or the Cactus Hill boys and possibly girls.
NOBODY could do a worse job than this Administration and Congress.
I guess since most Indians never traveled too far from river/water sources, the rest of the land was for the free for the taking?
We were first on the Moon.
It’s ours.
Anyone enjoying tidal benefits owes us licensing fees.
Should conquered peoples’ demands on their conquerers be given consideration, let alone honored?
In honor of the occasion, I suggest a the launch of a new flavor – “Pow Wow Karma”
Hypocrisy Vanilla Look Who’s Talking Tuti Fruity
Pompano Beach, Florida? Why does he have a property in that state? Is he a white supremacist only pretending to be woke?