LANSING, Mich.— A woke stunt went horribly wrong at Sunday’s Democratic Party Nominating Convention in Michigan as a top official opened the event with a brutal attempt at a "land acknowledgment.""I am here to offer our land acknowledgment," said Portia Roberson, the vice chair of the state's party, at the outset of the afternoon gathering of Democrats.
"Our land acknowledgments in Michigan recognize the state as the ancestral, traditional and contemporary land of the Anishinaabe, Three Fires Confederacy — "But she was cut off after an incorrect pronunciation of Anishinaabe when several audience members began shouting the correct pronunciation at Roberson, to which she replied, "Say it again for me."Portia Roberson speaks at the Michigan Democratic Nominating Convention on Saturday, Aug.29, 2026.
(Peter D'Abrosca/Fox News Digital)OBAMA CENTER EMBEDS 'INDIGENOUS' LAND MESSAGE ON CONTROVERSIAL SITE"Stand up," Roberson then told a woman wearing a white t-shirt in the crowd."You do it better than me.
Make it — I'm big on names being pronounced right, so make sure I get it right."The audience member then repeated the pronunciation of the word Anishinaabe until Roberson successfully mimicked it into the microphone."Thank you.Wait, don't sit down yet," she told the convention-goer.
"I might get another one wrong.You may have to correct me, and I want to get this right."OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER FOLLOWS WIDELY MOCKED 'STOLEN LAND' ACKNOWLEDGMENT WITH NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE SHOWShe then picked up where she left off."Including the Odawa, Ottawa, Ojibwe, Chippewa and ...
Potawatomi," she said, sparking another round of audience shouting with a mispronunciation of the last tribe.Signage is displayed during the unity-themed Michigan Democratic Party's 2026 nominating convention in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, Aug.29, 2026.
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