{"id":1490475,"date":"2022-05-24T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490475"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:45:55","slug":"walmart-releases-juneteenth-ice-cream-then-cancels-it-because-of-woke-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walmart-releases-juneteenth-ice-cream-then-cancels-it-because-of-woke-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Releases \u2018Juneteenth\u2019 Ice Cream, Then Cancels It Because Of Woke Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalmart-releases-juneteenth-ice-cream-then-cancels-it-because-of-woke-backlash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Walmart apologized Tuesday for releasing a \u201cJuneteenth\u201d themed ice cream after woke backlash from critics on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The retail giant issued a statement Tuesday apologizing for the \u201ccelebration edition\u201d ice cream released by its Great Value brand, a red velvet cheesecake flavor created to match the celebratory red, yellow, green, and black colors used for Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShare and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope,\u201d the label reads. Juneteenth became a federal holiday in June 2021 after President Joe Biden signed a law establishing it.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user called @KevOnStage shared a TikTok video to his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevOnStage\/status\/1528559087218065409?t=nr_zwRljxMWrFls2UFIJwQ&#038;s=19\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0Sunday night account criticizing Juneteenth-themed products being sold by Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently Walmart has Great Value Juneteenth celebration edition ice cream, swirled red velvet and cheesecake flavored ice cream, and this is what happens when you commercialize federal holidays,\u201d KevOnStage said in the video. \u201cIt just became a federal holiday, now you can celebrate with this ice cream. But wait, there\u2019s more!\u201d he said, pointing out a number of other products, like Juneteenth party supplies and decorations, wine, party masks and glasses, tee shirts, and water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>KevOnStage also pointed out a rather inconveniently-placed \u201cCongratulations Officer\u201d celebration banner in the list of products. \u201cAnd I am so upset about this, what I need Walmart to do is send me all this ice cream just so I can taste it and make sure it is wrong!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other Twitter users were not so humorous in their criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said we want the reparations we are owed. They gave us Representatives kneeling in Kente cloth, ice cream and party decorations,\u201d said one user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorporate America will co-opt Juneteenth now that it\u2019s a federal holiday like everything else. We don\u2019t have reparations, laws protecting our voting rights, or stopping Police from killing us, but we have ice cream\u2026\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapitalism is a retail conglomerate, owned by a white billionaire family, marketing an ice cream to celebrate a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in a country that was literally built on the backs on slaves,\u201d another user stated.<\/p>\n<p>Several other users complained that Walmart was selling its own brand of ice cream instead of promoting a similar flavor sold by a black-owned ice cream company.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash caused Walmart to issue a statement saying that it was re-evaluating the decision to sell the ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence,\u201d the company said in a statement, obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/walmart-pulls-juneteenth-ice-cream-after-backlash-we-sincerely-apologize\">Fox 11 Los Angeles<\/a>. \u201cHowever, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bill to establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday was introduced the Senate in June 2021. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate, and by an overwhelming 415-14 margin in the House of Representatives. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-harris-use-juneteenth-federal-holiday-signing-to-imply-america-is-still-systemically-racist\">signed the bill<\/a> into law on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>While Walmart was backing down from woke outrage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-state-farm-backs-down-on-donating-transgender-books-for-five-year-olds-to-schools\">State Farm<\/a> was also backed down from a plan to donate pro-LGBTQ books to schools and public libraries because of backlash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart apologized Tuesday for releasing a \u201cJuneteenth\u201d themed ice cream after woke backlash from critics on social media. The retail giant issued a statement Tuesday apologizing for the \u201ccelebration edition\u201d ice cream released by its Great Value brand, a red velvet cheesecake flavor created to match the celebratory red, yellow, green, and black colors used &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1490526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}