The ice cream maker has called on Americans to 'grapple with the sins of our past,' describing the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, as the result of 'inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.'
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.There are just four black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
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.
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