Our Acknowledgment
Moving toward a new day requires reflection. It requires reckoning with our failures, taking time to really listen, and honoring what we鈥檝e missed. Cerro Chalt茅n gets one of its many names from a Tehuelche (A贸nikenk) word meaning 鈥渟moking mountain鈥濃攆or the clouds that frequent its peaks. Patagonia. Photo: Mikey Schaefer
Patagonia has struggled to find the right words to respond to the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Dijon Kizzee, and far too many others. 欧博会员入口鈥檝e also struggled to express our support for the racial justice movement sweeping the country. The few words we have conveyed fell short and failed to comprehend the pain of our colleagues of color and partners in the outdoor community. The Black Lives Matter movement has forced a reckoning of the deep racial injustice around us and laid bare our complicity. 欧博会员入口 are a white-led outdoor company reliant on recreation on stolen Native lands that are not yet safe for all. Recent months have revealed how much more we need to do to live up to our values as an activist company. 欧博会员入口 missed too much. Our hearts hurt, but our pain is nowhere near what our colleagues who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color have suffered. 欧博会员入口 are sorry for the harm we鈥檝e caused.
To truly step up to this work, we must confront Patagonia鈥檚 lack of progress and take full ownership of the legacy of our failures. 欧博会员入口 must listen to and support our Black, Indigenous and colleagues of color first and commit to becoming a more inclusive and equitable company. And we will amplify the true leaders on justice and equity in the environmental movement and outdoor industry.
This work is urgent and lifelong. 欧博会员入口 will never be 鈥渄one.鈥� 欧博会员入口鈥檙e recommitting our time and resources to this essential part of our mission. 欧博会员入口 welcome having our eyes opened to what we ignored. 欧博会员入口鈥檙e building a foundation for our work by listening more deeply to our colleagues of color to learn from their experiences and insights. 欧博会员入口鈥檝e begun company-wide learning sessions to create a shared understanding of what it means to be an antiracist company. And we鈥檙e updating policies to make equity more explicit.
Talk is cheap. In the months ahead, we鈥檒l share our progress so that we can be held accountable. 欧博会员入口鈥檙e in business to save our home planet, but we can鈥檛 possibly do this alone. 欧博会员入口 must focus on those most impacted by the environmental crisis and follow their lead. 欧博会员入口 are here for the work of forging a more just world.
