When Will Ben & Jerry’s Return Its Stolen Land? – The American Spectator

In case you missed it, here was the headline over the Fourth of July, this one as reported by Fox News:

Ben & Jerry’s Independence Day message calls for ‘stolen indigenous land’ to be returned to Native Americans

Ben & Jerry’s stated the holiday can ‘distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth’

The story, reported by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, said this:

Instead of sharing a patriotic message on the birth of American independence, ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s shared a messaged [sic] on the Fourth of July arguing that the United States was “founded on stolen indigenous land” and that the government should “commit to returning it.”

“The United States was founded on stolen indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it,” Ben & Jerry’s declared, before arguing that July 4th festivities, including parades, barbecues, and fireworks, can “distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth.”

The Vermont ice cream company proposed that the US should “start with Mount Rushmore,” and detailed the history of the iconic memorial and its significance to Native Americans.

Got it.

What we have here is a very strange silence. Silence about what? (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Joe Biden Throws Son Hunter Under the Bus)

Here is this history as supplied by the state of Vermont on its official website. Specifically, it is posted by the state’s “Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs.” It reads:

Native Americans in Vermont

Vermont’s Native history started 12,900 years ago when people called the Paleo-Indians first moved into the land we now call Vermont. Since these earliest occupations nearly 13,000 years ago, Native communities have continually lived in Vermont. Native knowledge, experience, and traditions have deeply influenced many aspects of Vermont’s rich history.

In other words? In other words, Ben & Jerry’s, located in Vermont, is, according to Ben and Jerry themselves, located on stolen land that has belonged to the state’s Native community for “nearly 13,000 years.”

So, the obvious question? When will Ben and Jerry leave the stolen land on which they built their very wealthy ice cream company? And, for that matter, as the Twitter world asked mockingly, when will Ben and Jerry stop stealing milk from the cows to whom the milk used for their ice cream belongs?

The Ben & Jerry’s website boasts that it does business “all over the world,” listing just over 40 countries — not counting the USA.

So it shouldn’t be that hard for the company to apologize to Vermont’s four recognized tribes, give them back their stolen land, and go elsewhere in the world to make and sell Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Will that happen?

One suspects a hell colder than a Vermont winter will freeze over before Ben & Jerry’s issues a mea culpa, admits to its hypocrisy, and gives back what it has claimed is the stolen land on which the company exists. It’s so much easier to call out South Dakota than … themselves.

Which is to say, the hypocrisy of those on the American Left can never be underestimated or measured.

But it is fun to sit down with a gob of Cherry Garcia and watch.