28 thoughts on “Walmart Canada apologizes, says it’s pulling Infant sleeper that has Twitter all fired up”
I am a Sixties Scoop survivor. The text and graphics on that onesie offend me in ways no one will ever understand completely
Take the tipis and arrows out, put a symbol of your own ethnicity in its place– and if you are outraged, you’ll understand.
i dont know whether to take this as a negative or positive, i can see both, one towards c.a.s because they havent been able to take the child wearing the jumper… or that the corporate company that produced it , is making the money from it…. hmmm, maybe it they donated some of the proceeds towards awareness of c.a.s taking more interest in colonizing the natives of this land or using their time and money fixing their own peoples parenting skills. there are native programs set in place to help native parents learn parenting skills that include our culture.
I thought this was such a senseless act of selfishness and corporate greed – not to mention another slap in the face to all indigenous people of turtle island – I mean with all the education out there on all of this – people are still so ignorant – their so called country was founded on the genocide of the original people of this land and that the trauma and horrific acts that the europeans caused the indigenous people since the time of contact including the Residential school and the 60’s scoop era caused intergenerational trauma that still affects our people to this day – because of this I will never shop at Walmart again
I am glad it was taken off the shelf! Totally inappropriate!
Yeah, I can see how this can hurt people. We need to be more aware and sensitive of people even if they are indigenous or not.
I drive school bus in a community that sees far too many of our First nations children being raised in foster homes. Graphics like this certainly are offensive to me when I think of their precious faces.
It could go either way, I had my share with organizations. I chuckle at this because I DO in FACT have had my share of conflicting investigations with family protection organizations, my is family is still together because of the organizations that work with aboriginals to keep us together. So we can wear this proud, or just be offensived and not move forward. Take it the way you interpete it to, just don’t dwell on the past, we need to find peace someday. Mii gwetch!
I’m from the US, and the US had this system by which Native children were removed from their homes, and place into boarding schools. These schools were rife with abuse, and operated on the idea of “kill the Indian, save the man”.
So seeing this just makes me sad. With this graphic, it’s not funny at all, because now Native American children are getting to grow up with their families, whereas before they didn’t.
(I know that some Native children get taken into foster care, but I’m not sure how many, I’d have to hit google. Plus I’ve contributed to tribal campaigns where the tribe was needing the funds to help their members become foster parents. So if a child from a particular tribe is removed from their home, they can be placed with a certified foster parent who is also a member of their tribe.)
48% of children seized by canada’s cas are First Nations children; First Nations children represent only about 2% of canada’s population.
They target First Nations because many don’t have the financial means for a court battle. If you don’t think this shirt’s message is extremely offensive and insensitive to First Nations, then either you’re not really a First Nations citizen or you’re completely brain-washed and totally out-of-touch with the Nations… or you could just be plain old dumb?
lol whats wrong with it lol I know lots who still do and wayyyy to old lol
I lodged a complaint because as someone who is a trained CYW I know that statistically aboriginal children are removed from our communities at alarming rates, as aboriginal people we make up 4% of total population in Canada, yet our children make up 48% of total children in care. In some provinces that rate is as high 85% of children in care being aboriginal. So yes to say “I still live with my parents” in an aboriginal context is highly offensive when you consider how many aboriginal people have taken child welfare systems to court for wrongful removal of their children, and when u take into account the high rates of childhood suicide, and the number of MMIW or the fact that infant mortality is higher amongst aboriginal communities. Ppl say don’t take it to seriously, tell that to the mother who had her children wrongfully removed and is walking through Walmart seeing this, or the mother who is mourning her child and sees this. Smh
Cheyenne – thank you for your response – you summed it up beautifully – so sad and true…..
I’m more curious about who came up with the idea to add teepees and arrows
Just leave it.. Im native.. this is funny.. Dont take everything so seriuosly..
Finally someone with a sense of humour! Lighten up world
If you are actually native, then you need to decolonize yourself and grow a brain. There is nothing funny about this
The problem of just letting it alone justifies this kind of language as being OK but, some people will use it to launch other slogans that really are offensive.
Yes, live longer if you don’t take everything so serious, stress does reduce longevity. It is cute in a sense, its how we want to interpret things, negative or positive.. I like your comment kimama <3 peace.
It is sad that staff didnt recognize this as offensive when they were ordering, stocking and putting this item on the shelves. I am sure there were plenty enough staff to see this in advance of it going out but no one spoke out or recognized the insensitivity of it. Walmart has alot of Indigenous culture awareness to do. It shouldnt be left to our people to come forward to complain before something gets done about these things.
I think you don’t understand how Walmart works. Stock is generally dispersed from a distribution point. Staff on site have very little to do with what they carry, and floor level/front line staff are just there getting a paycheck. It’s unlikely any of them would raise a concern about “insensitive” imagery… They don’t want to rock the boat.
Thank you, Walmart , for listening!
As a First Nation is sickens me that white society use Indigenous arrows, teepees in their advertising ads?? All for greed! Most don’t have the time or day for our concerns but to make a few dollars off us???
Wondering what SUE ANN LEVY of the TORONTO SUN has to say about this. Her last comments about INDIGINOUS PEOPLES WAS TO “GET OVER IT”. TSK TSK…
“White People” also used arrows when they were evolving. Thousands of years to be exact. The jumper is offensive but so is your comment.
I am an older man that still doesn’t see what is offensive here. Please explain it in words of one syllable. Do you believe it is pointing out something about child services in Canada? I can’t believe it was written with that in mind.
Suppose it were decorated with shamrocks. Some Irish snowflake could interpret that as an insult to their relatives who’s children were removed from homes where alcohol was a problem. Or suppose it were decorated with pizzas; what an insult to Italians who slipped on spilled tomato sauce, broke their head, and had their children removed from a home without parents. Such racist filth!
Too many people (snowflake types) spend their days looking for ways to be offended. You have too much time on your hands.
Hey Snowflake. You didn’t invent the arrow or the tent. Some primitive stone age person in Africa or Europe did. He was a relative of both f us. You have too much time for your contrived “concerns.”
Yes I Totally Agree! This Is Quite Sickening As It Is In Poor Taste & Just Straight Downright Atrocious And Preposterous That This Sort Of Thing Is Still Going On With All That Is Going On Today But I Do Hope It Continues To Open Up Discussions & Hopefully Prompt More Action Towards The Healing And Growth Of All My Indigenous People Across Canada!!! Aho!!
I am a Sixties Scoop survivor. The text and graphics on that onesie offend me in ways no one will ever understand completely
Take the tipis and arrows out, put a symbol of your own ethnicity in its place– and if you are outraged, you’ll understand.
i dont know whether to take this as a negative or positive, i can see both, one towards c.a.s because they havent been able to take the child wearing the jumper… or that the corporate company that produced it , is making the money from it…. hmmm, maybe it they donated some of the proceeds towards awareness of c.a.s taking more interest in colonizing the natives of this land or using their time and money fixing their own peoples parenting skills. there are native programs set in place to help native parents learn parenting skills that include our culture.
I thought this was such a senseless act of selfishness and corporate greed – not to mention another slap in the face to all indigenous people of turtle island – I mean with all the education out there on all of this – people are still so ignorant – their so called country was founded on the genocide of the original people of this land and that the trauma and horrific acts that the europeans caused the indigenous people since the time of contact including the Residential school and the 60’s scoop era caused intergenerational trauma that still affects our people to this day – because of this I will never shop at Walmart again
I am glad it was taken off the shelf! Totally inappropriate!
Yeah, I can see how this can hurt people. We need to be more aware and sensitive of people even if they are indigenous or not.
I drive school bus in a community that sees far too many of our First nations children being raised in foster homes. Graphics like this certainly are offensive to me when I think of their precious faces.
It could go either way, I had my share with organizations. I chuckle at this because I DO in FACT have had my share of conflicting investigations with family protection organizations, my is family is still together because of the organizations that work with aboriginals to keep us together. So we can wear this proud, or just be offensived and not move forward. Take it the way you interpete it to, just don’t dwell on the past, we need to find peace someday. Mii gwetch!
I’m from the US, and the US had this system by which Native children were removed from their homes, and place into boarding schools. These schools were rife with abuse, and operated on the idea of “kill the Indian, save the man”.
So seeing this just makes me sad. With this graphic, it’s not funny at all, because now Native American children are getting to grow up with their families, whereas before they didn’t.
(I know that some Native children get taken into foster care, but I’m not sure how many, I’d have to hit google. Plus I’ve contributed to tribal campaigns where the tribe was needing the funds to help their members become foster parents. So if a child from a particular tribe is removed from their home, they can be placed with a certified foster parent who is also a member of their tribe.)
48% of children seized by canada’s cas are First Nations children; First Nations children represent only about 2% of canada’s population.
They target First Nations because many don’t have the financial means for a court battle. If you don’t think this shirt’s message is extremely offensive and insensitive to First Nations, then either you’re not really a First Nations citizen or you’re completely brain-washed and totally out-of-touch with the Nations… or you could just be plain old dumb?
lol whats wrong with it lol I know lots who still do and wayyyy to old lol
I lodged a complaint because as someone who is a trained CYW I know that statistically aboriginal children are removed from our communities at alarming rates, as aboriginal people we make up 4% of total population in Canada, yet our children make up 48% of total children in care. In some provinces that rate is as high 85% of children in care being aboriginal. So yes to say “I still live with my parents” in an aboriginal context is highly offensive when you consider how many aboriginal people have taken child welfare systems to court for wrongful removal of their children, and when u take into account the high rates of childhood suicide, and the number of MMIW or the fact that infant mortality is higher amongst aboriginal communities. Ppl say don’t take it to seriously, tell that to the mother who had her children wrongfully removed and is walking through Walmart seeing this, or the mother who is mourning her child and sees this. Smh
Cheyenne – thank you for your response – you summed it up beautifully – so sad and true…..
I’m more curious about who came up with the idea to add teepees and arrows
Just leave it.. Im native.. this is funny.. Dont take everything so seriuosly..
Finally someone with a sense of humour! Lighten up world
If you are actually native, then you need to decolonize yourself and grow a brain. There is nothing funny about this
The problem of just letting it alone justifies this kind of language as being OK but, some people will use it to launch other slogans that really are offensive.
Yes, live longer if you don’t take everything so serious, stress does reduce longevity. It is cute in a sense, its how we want to interpret things, negative or positive.. I like your comment kimama <3 peace.
It is sad that staff didnt recognize this as offensive when they were ordering, stocking and putting this item on the shelves. I am sure there were plenty enough staff to see this in advance of it going out but no one spoke out or recognized the insensitivity of it. Walmart has alot of Indigenous culture awareness to do. It shouldnt be left to our people to come forward to complain before something gets done about these things.
I think you don’t understand how Walmart works. Stock is generally dispersed from a distribution point. Staff on site have very little to do with what they carry, and floor level/front line staff are just there getting a paycheck. It’s unlikely any of them would raise a concern about “insensitive” imagery… They don’t want to rock the boat.
Thank you, Walmart , for listening!
As a First Nation is sickens me that white society use Indigenous arrows, teepees in their advertising ads?? All for greed! Most don’t have the time or day for our concerns but to make a few dollars off us???
Wondering what SUE ANN LEVY of the TORONTO SUN has to say about this. Her last comments about INDIGINOUS PEOPLES WAS TO “GET OVER IT”. TSK TSK…
“White People” also used arrows when they were evolving. Thousands of years to be exact. The jumper is offensive but so is your comment.
I am an older man that still doesn’t see what is offensive here. Please explain it in words of one syllable. Do you believe it is pointing out something about child services in Canada? I can’t believe it was written with that in mind.
Suppose it were decorated with shamrocks. Some Irish snowflake could interpret that as an insult to their relatives who’s children were removed from homes where alcohol was a problem. Or suppose it were decorated with pizzas; what an insult to Italians who slipped on spilled tomato sauce, broke their head, and had their children removed from a home without parents. Such racist filth!
Too many people (snowflake types) spend their days looking for ways to be offended. You have too much time on your hands.
Hey Snowflake. You didn’t invent the arrow or the tent. Some primitive stone age person in Africa or Europe did. He was a relative of both f us. You have too much time for your contrived “concerns.”
Yes I Totally Agree! This Is Quite Sickening As It Is In Poor Taste & Just Straight Downright Atrocious And Preposterous That This Sort Of Thing Is Still Going On With All That Is Going On Today But I Do Hope It Continues To Open Up Discussions & Hopefully Prompt More Action Towards The Healing And Growth Of All My Indigenous People Across Canada!!! Aho!!