{"id":1401242,"date":"2022-03-25T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401242"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T03:45:14","slug":"u-s-chamber-of-commerce-president-apologizes-for-picture-with-white-people-in-native-american-headdress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-president-apologizes-for-picture-with-white-people-in-native-american-headdress\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Apologizes for Picture with White People in Native American Headdress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-chamber-of-commerce-president-apologizes-for-picture-with-white-people-in-native-american-headdress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401242&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) President Suzanne Clark, who <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uschamber.com\/infrastructure\/u-s-chamber-ceo-on-infrastructure-bill-becoming-law-today-all-of-america-won\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">previously advocated<\/a> for the infrastructure bill, sent an email to her staff apologizing for her \u201cmomentary lapse in judgement\u201d when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/pre-viral\/2022\/03\/24\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-president-suzanne-clarke-poses-with-white-people-in-native-american-headdress\/\">posted a photo of herself<\/a> on social media smiling alongside two white women in Native American headdresses.<\/p>\n<p>Clark sent an email to her staff, first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1507459992940683270?s=20&#038;t=pUoiNWxhqnuniYtyHSJumQ\">shared<\/a> by Ryan Grim of The Intercept, explaining her \u201cmomentary lapses in judgement\u201d [Sic] during her vacation when she took a picture with two\u00a0white women wearing Native American headdresses. The Democrat-aligned Chamber president indicated that she was \u201cdeeply sorry\u201d for her \u201cmistake\u201d since\u00a0headdresses \u201chold deep meaning for Native Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, Breitbart News first wrote the story that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/pre-viral\/2022\/03\/24\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-president-suzanne-clarke-poses-with-white-people-in-native-american-headdress\/\">showed<\/a> the picture Clark posted on her\u00a0private Instagram account, also released by Grim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clarke, in a note to staff, says she is &#8220;deeply sorry&#8221; for a &#8220;momentary lapse in judgment&#8221; and says &#8220;it is my highest responsibility to be intentional in how I represent our members.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d31W5rWEq1\">pic.twitter.com\/d31W5rWEq1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryangrim\/status\/1507459992940683270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This all comes after Disney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/social-justice\/2022\/03\/19\/video-disney-regrets-drill-teams-routine-portraying-native-americans-and-chanting-scalp-em\/\">apologized<\/a> for having a\u00a0Native American dance routine performed by a drill team at the company\u2019s Florida theme park after the\u00a0Cherokee Nation\u00a0denounced the\u00a0performance.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Forbes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/social-justice\/2022\/03\/19\/video-disney-regrets-drill-teams-routine-portraying-native-americans-and-chanting-scalp-em\/\">reported<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The drill team from Port Neches-Groves High School in Port Neches, Texas\u2014known as the \u201cIndianettes\u201d\u2014drew outrage for its performance at Magic Kingdom Park in Walt Disney World this week, which featured drill team members performing movements criticized for perpetuating racial stereotypes against Native Americans while chanting, \u201cScalp \u2018em, Indians, scalp \u2018em.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a letter responding to a video posted on social media of the routine,\u00a0Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. condemned the routine by calling it a\u00a0\u201cstereotypical\u201d depiction of the tribe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchool leaders need educating on cultural appropriateness, should apologize for continuing to ignore our requests to stop, and need to make swift changes to correct these offensive displays across their school district,\u201d the nation said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cherokee Nation Principal Chief <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckHoskin_Jr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChuckHoskin_Jr<\/a> issues statement in response to offensive depictions by Texas high school cheer team: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xx02vto7hI\">https:\/\/t.co\/xx02vto7hI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2VCrbaZV8\">pic.twitter.com\/t2VCrbaZV8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cherokee Nation (@CherokeeNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CherokeeNation\/status\/1504938370585309188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Disney spokesperson\u00a0Jacquee Wahler said\u00a0the performance \u201cdid not reflect our core values, and we regret it took place,\u201d adding it was \u201cnot consistent with the audition tape the school provided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC) President Suzanne Clark, who previously advocated for the infrastructure bill, sent an email to her staff apologizing for her \u201cmomentary lapse in judgement\u201d when she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}