“The events of January 6, 2021, were not a protest—it was a riot to uphold white supremacy,” wrote Ben & Jerry’s in a statement published online January 11, 2021.
“It was allowed to happen. The mostly white insurrectionists roamed freely and without consequence through the heart of our democracy.
The only explanation is that this was allowed to happen because they were white—not Black, Brown, or Indigenous people.
