Posted on 05/24/2026 4:40:00 AM PDT by DFG
Jeep should be forced to change the name of its Grand Cherokee SUV to prevent it profiting from cultural appropriation, a woke law professor claims.
J Janewa Osei-Tutu, a Ghanaian/Canadian/American intellectual property attorney and teacher at Miami University believes federal laws should be changed to 'protect cultural personality.'
I n her paper on race, racism and the law she argues that, similar to how Pepsi or Taylor Swift cannot have their names used without permission, cultural identities should not be profited from without consent.
'[W]e should also have a right to control not only the commercial use of our individual personal identities but also our collectively held cultural identities,' she writes.
Osei-Tutu refers to intellectual property laws as 'underinclusive - at least in relation to valuable intangible cultural heritage from indigenous communities and local communities from the global south.'
Her perceived flaws in the laws allow corporations to 'capture and monetize this unprotected resource, which means that it is exposed and subject to misappropriation.'
She specifically cites Jeep, which has sold the Grand Cherokee since 1992 and has even negotiated with the Cherokee Tribe over the usage of the name but stopped short of ditching it.
Her ideas amount to making 'cultural appropriation' illegal, according to conservative legal analyst Jonathan Turley.
'The proposal in this article would blow apart the copyright laws and use them to weaponize claims of cultural appropriation. It would codify the culture of viewpoint intolerance and speech regulation that currently characterizes higher education,' he writes.
It would force corporations to face 'endless lawsuits' and also end cultural influences that immigrants bring to American culture.
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Is there any connection between them? I’m thinking no.
Possibly is it a corruption of Maumee (river flowing through Toledo?) Maybe Maumee is a corruption of Miami?
“Companies use names held in high esteem
Companies do not use derogatory names”
So we won’t be seeing the Toyota Pustule any time soon?
Miami in Ohio is far older (est 1809); variations of the name are all over Ohio where that tribe resided. My understanding is that the developer in Florida just kinda liked the name and decided to use it. That version of the Florida name is really just sort of Ohio folk history. I’ve never delved deeper than that
“… J Janewa Osei-Tutu, a Ghanaian/Canadian/American…”
Ghana-reha is a hellava disease. Makes think some truly stupid things.
The Miami tribe was relocated to Oklahoma back in the day. Miami Ohio has established some relationships with them over the last few decades.
This foreigner is an associate dean of diversity, culture and inclusion at the University of Miami. She is also appropriating a DEI position (female, black) at their law school. I am sure there are citizens of our country who are more qualified to teach US law than this appropriator.
Popeye meets Eugene the Jeep. The original cartoon.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5z8zug
I ❤️ Eugene!
If she has nothing better to do than stuff like this, I certainly wish she would either find better ways to spend her time ..or.. just sit down & shut up. Hate to be one of her students. That class might likely be a waste of a person’s time.
Actually, Tsalagi is the name for their language and also used by tribal members...
The name of the tribe is Ani-Yun-Wiya, which means “people of a different tongue”...
> This foreigner is an associate dean of diversity, culture and inclusion at the University of Miami. <
Guaranteed that she runs her office like a Gestapo unit. Always on high alert for any little sign of non-diverse behavior.
I’d say the vast majority of the posters who agree with the rat party are trolls from Democratic Underground.
Agreed.
The boy is a mutt or what we used to call a Heinz 57.
Not only that, but indigenous peoples in North America never even developed systems of written language. Over tens of thousands of years.
They APPROPRIATED written language from white man. So clearly they must pay white man royalties for the use of his language, without which the word “Cherokee” would not even exist.
Don’t get me started on the wheel.
Sequoyah developed the written language of the Ani-Yun-Wiya (Cherokee) back in the 1800’s...
J Janewa Osei-Tutu, a Ghanaian/Canadian/American intellectual property attorney and teacher = A very big pile of Gibberish ,LOL
The word “Cherokee” came from the white man trying to pronounce the word Tsalagi (Chu La Gee) which is the term for the Ani-Yun_Wiya language...
My brother has a Jeep Gladiator and he says GET STUFFED WITCH
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