War on Woke: Where We Hold Out Hope

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and Vox Creative

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 537 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Antonio and other business owners in Florida sued the state after the Stop WOKE Act was signed, and won. What does that mean for the future of the act, and for business owners in the state? In our final episode of the season, we’re taking a deep dive into the fraught conversation of D.E.I., the “war on woke,” and what it really takes to dismantle white supremacy.

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0:00.0	We have respected our taxpayers and we reject woke ideology.
0:12.3	This is into the mix.
0:15.6	We fight the woke in the legislature.
0:19.5	A Ben & Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:25.5	We fight the woke in the schools.
0:28.9	I'm Ashley Seaford.
0:30.7	We fight the woke in the corporations.
0:34.2	And today, we are still in Florida.
0:37.4	We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob.
0:41.8	Florida is where woke goes to die.
0:52.6	Throughout this mini-series, we've been at ground zero for what feels like a war on honesty, empathy, and the freedom of ideas.
1:02.5	We've been steeped in backlash against DEI and workplaces and chilled by the censorship of speech and schools.
1:11.4	We began this series at Ben and Jerry's scoop shop in Clearwater Beach, Florida,
1:16.1	with Antonio McBroom, whose entire business model is based on addressing racial inequality,
1:22.5	and on ice cream, of course.
1:24.7	Before Antonio and Ben and Jerry's, it never is and never has been just about ice cream.
1:32.1	Why don't you just sell ice cream?
1:33.9	That's not who we are.
1:35.9	Ice cream is in a different business as we do, are our platform to really make impact.
1:42.4	When Florida's government passed a law
1:44.5	banning mandatory discussions
1:46.2	of racial inequality in business,
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