Ben & Jerry’s Breaks Down Exactly Why Black Lives Matter

[sheshe2]

“All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until black lives matter.”

Ben & Jerry’s is taking a stance against the police brutality that’s been plaguing the black community. And the company want us all to do the same.

The ice cream company issued a call to action in a letter posted on its website Thursday and informed readers why this country needs to make sure that black lives matter.

“They matter because the injustices they face steal from all of us — white people and people of color alike,” the letter reads. “They steal our very humanity.”

The company notes that systemic and institutionalized racism needs to be addressed and that silence around these issues equals complicity in the violence against black people. The only way the country can begin finding solutions to racism is to understand and acknowledge that there is a problem.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-jerrys-black-lives-matter_us_57f7a3f7e4b0e655eab38883?

Good for Ben and Jerry's. Now let's all of us get to work.

[awoke_in_2003]

1. Ice cream is my kryptonite...

so I haven't had any B&J in a while. I might just get some on the way home.