Obama Center's opening ceremony ridiculed for far-left ritual before star-studded show

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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." 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. OSCARS FEATURES INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ROASTED AS 'PERFORMATIVE NONSENSE' ON SOCIAL MEDIA 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. CARVILLE REBUKES DNC OVER WOKE ‘LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT’ LAMENTING TREATMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS "Land acknowledgements are funny because the real message is ‘I want to say I care, but I don’t really care or I wouldn’t have built this on land which I just said is yours,’" said Beth Anne Mumford of Americans for Prosperity. "So you just went ahead and built on that land anyway, huh," said conservative commentator Stephen Miller Townhall senior strategist Siraj Hashmi weighed in with a reference to infamous Chicago rapper Chief Keef. REWARDING RACISM: HOW TRIBAL POLITICS IS TEARING AMERICA APART "Pretty disrespectful for the Obama Presidential Center to not acknowledge the current tribe leader of the South Side of Chicago: Chie…