Former President Barack Obama speaks at the dedication for his new presidential center in Chicago.
At Thursday’s ceremony marking the beginning of the Obama Presidential Center’s opening weekend, the master of ceremonies began with a left-wing "land acknowledgment ritual," for which the entire event was promptly mocked.
Valerie Jarrett, the former senior advisor to Obama when he was president and the current CEO of the Obama Foundation, kicked things off.
"We’d also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today," she said. "We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa and the Potawatomi nations."
Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett stands near the Obama Presidential Center under construction in Chicago’s Jackson Park. The foundation reported nearly $210 million in total revenue in 2024, according to federal filings. (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)
Land acknowledgments have been mocked as performative left-wing routines completed to commemorate the Native Americans who once lived on the land where an event is happening.
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They are an extension of the belief that the United States exists on "stolen land."
But as many keen online observers noted, Democrats hosting the Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening have no intention of returning the land to the people they believe are its rightful owners.
"Wouldn’t they prefer you just give them their land back?" conservative commentator Steve Deace asked sarcastically.
Barack Obama speaks during the dedication of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
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