Posted on 10/12/2021 9:09:07 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Minnetonka Moccasin Co., a local footwear company, is acknowledging and apologizing for Native American culture appropriation over the last 75-plus years.
The company dropped the "moccasin" from its logo in 2008, and has removed the word from the majority of its corporate messaging and will now refer to only "Minnetonka" going forward.
"We (Minnetonka) deeply and meaningfully apologize for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities," the statement reads on the company's website. It also states, "we are dedicated to honoring our commitment to Native American communities with our actions going forward."
The business states that when it first opened in 1946, Minnetonka was one of many companies that sold handcrafted moccasins and Native-inspired accessories to roadside gift shops. The company also says for many years, they have privately supported Native causes in the state, but add "giving back is not enough."
(Excerpt) Read more at kstp.com ...
Many of you (and not just Midwesterners) are familiar with Minnesota Moccasins. They have produced comfortable moccasins for the public for many years. They have no fallen prey to the "wokeness" and political correctness that has been permeating society even before George Floyd died.
In an effort to kiss as much butt as possible, the company has retained a reconciliation adviser to assist them in their transition to a more caring and socially aware company.
As you read the bottom of the article, it sounds like the changes are partially of the company's choosing and to a strong degree from outside coercion by SJW's who look under every rock for signs of "racism".
Comments or opinions - anyone?
Are American Indians are apparently the new Nazis.
Everything about them must be eliminated from society. One can’t use their words, use their images, or speak about their history.
Well, Minnetonka has made their apology on behalf of me and mine and accepted the blood libel of the leftists so now I will return the favor by never buy another goddamn thing from Minnetonka.
Go woke go broke.
This communist purge is not being done on behalf of Native Americans, it is taking me to the communist takeover. Minnetonka has chosen to ally with communists so they will no longer have my business.
nobody has any history apparently except indians....
Damn, I am to angry to comment without typos popping up like genital warts on a leftist pervert.
I’ll pick up tomorrow.
Well, OK, But I don’t want to see any Tribal Members wearing regular boots or shoes. That would be cultural appropriation too.
When I was a kid, For a summer job, I worked in a ‘Curio shop” in a resort town on the edge of an Apache Reservation.... One of the product lines the store carried a lot of, were Minnetonka Moccassins. I sold a lot of them, including a fairly high percentage to local Tribe members. I don’t remember any of my customers angry about cultural appropriation.
And for several years, due to arthritic toes, all I can wear are moccasins. I hope I don’t get in trouble for that.
Their product is no longer called a Moccasin?
Then what is it?
I purchased a few pair over the last few years.
If I need to play a guessing game about the product’s name, it may be time to start ‘seeing other shoemakers’.
Well, they sure did a good job of groveling and bootlicking and cowering and crawling and stooping and sucking up to. Maybe I’ll just decide to not buy from them in the future. Yeah, I think that’s about what I’ll do. Get woke go broke, bunch of spineless cowards.
Amazingly, The hs school football team in the quaint, progressive artsy fartsy village of Nyack, NY is still called the INDIANS. Rosie O’ Dumbass once owned the old Helen Hayes estate and this village has the, for lack of a better way of putting it, “bragging rights” to electing the first openly gay mayor. Of all the people of Native lineage who live there 90+% DON’T want the name changed, most of the rest don’t care one way or the other.
But the soon to be ex-mayor of New York, Wilhelm, is allowed to steal Italian culture by calling himself “De Blasio.”
Minnesota Nice has become Minnesota Nuts.
20 or so years ago I was offered an executive position in the Minneapolis area. Had I taken it I would probably have retired there, (would have been before all this insanity got rolling), and today I would be SOOO sorry. An angel was sitting on my shoulder the day I turned them down.
The Indians introduced tobacco to the rest of the world.
They are responsible for tens of millions of cancer deaths in the last 500 years!
I would consider use of the word moccasin to be a compliment not a slur. It means that the native Americans created and named footwear that is still desired.
That’s what I’ve always thought as well.
Now, watch some young Native Americans start saying;
“I feel invisible! Nobody talks about Indians anymore.”
“In an effort to kiss as much butt as possible, the company has retained a reconciliation adviser to assist them in their transition to a more caring and socially aware company.”
“Reconciliation adviser” AKA, extortionist.
Straight out of the playbook of the two reverends - Jessie and Sharptongue.
I demand that “Native Americans’’ stop appropriating White culture. I demand “Native Americans’’ stop using electricity, the internal combustion engine, indoor plumbing , firearms, computers and telephones.
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