UH Ban on Alcohol proposed
There is a proposal to ban alcohol on the University of Hawaii campus and it's sports games.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/25/ln/ln05p.html
I know what I'm about to say isn't popular - but here I go - I think it's good not to sell alcohol at stadiums. I dont go to games to be around drunks, I go to games to see action on the field or the court.
At Aloha Stadium, at UH football games, there are women working for beer companies giving free samples of beer.
Just imagine someone giving free samples of marijuana or crystal meth at the stadium. That person is going to face prison time. But yet it's considered OK to give free sample of beer at a game?
So I think UH should go right ahead in banning alcohol at it's athletic and entertainment events.
As for dormitories, I think the policy of having substance-free dorms is good in keeping those serious about school away from boneheads who want to get drunk.
Sometimes I wonder how those drunk boneheads get into college in the first place? I'm serious! People who acted like that at my high school dropped out of high student or just barely graduated. Most of those who were the college prep types didn't act like those drunk boneheads at college dorms. So I'm wondering where did those drunk boneheads at the dorms come from?
However, I fear that if beer is banned at all dorms, then at every dorm building, people will break the rules & get drunk. So I think having substance-free dorms & "drunk dorms" is the lesser of all evils.
Friday, February 25, 2005
The Ivory Tower Explained
So why do many college profs (ie Ward Churchill) are mega-left idiots.This letter to the Star Bulletin explains it
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/23/editorial/indexletters.html
Academia seems to spawn odd viewpoints
The problem which is most unnerving about University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and his invitation to speak at the University of Hawaii last night is his position as a tenured professor ("Lawmaker wants speaker blocked," Feb. 19). The concept of awarding a job for life at a public university is not a blank check for reckless behavior. A tenured educator, like an unelected judge, is expected to represent reasonable ethical standards. Like a drunken judge careening down a the highway, Churchill's views are not only odious, they bring disrepute to the university he works for.
The isolation bubble atmosphere of university life seems to breed and encourage views that come across as cockeyed to normal-thinking people.
Paul Mossman
Kailua
That isolation bubble Paul Mossman mentioned is very real. Most profs spend a large portion of their life at the university. All the other people they meet are part of the university community. They even marry people within the university. In many ways, they are cut off the rest of the (non-university) world. While that is not bad in itself, that can lead to not relating to people outside the universities.
And in many universities, left-wing conspiracy theories are the in-thing. The more wackier the theories, the more intellectual you sound. You sound like a smart guy who figured it all out! That's how Churchill got his idiotic theories
Churchill, with his warped mind, takes a few facts about our foreign policy and then exxagarates, as if all America ever does is negative. Nevermind that the US has liberated Germany and Japan fromtheir fascist rulers. Nevermind that the US kept South Korea free of communist rule, allowing it to prosper. Nevermind that if the US didn't take Hawaii, Japan would. And that would've been massive rapes and genocide of Native Hawaiians. If Trask and Churchill think the US was bad to Hawaiians, they should investigate how barbaric the Japanese were to the natives of Korea and the Phillipines. IT WAS WORSE! That doesn't excuse any negative actions of the US, but Churchill needs to keep things in perspective!
The 9/11 terrorists weren't about liberating the Third World. These were Islamic Fascists whose allies continue to terrorize Third World people in places like Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and throughout the Middle East.
Ward Churchill DOESN'T CARE about the victims of genocide in Sudan. Why? Because the terrorists involved are Muslims! I wish I could've asked him about that
!The ivory tower also leads to kooks like Dr William Foltz. Foltz spent the last few decades in the ivory tower. He is also an inconsiderate fool. Add that up, then you'll figure out why he is clueless in how to relate to modern-day college students.
So why do many college profs (ie Ward Churchill) are mega-left idiots.This letter to the Star Bulletin explains it
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/23/editorial/indexletters.html
Academia seems to spawn odd viewpoints
The problem which is most unnerving about University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and his invitation to speak at the University of Hawaii last night is his position as a tenured professor ("Lawmaker wants speaker blocked," Feb. 19). The concept of awarding a job for life at a public university is not a blank check for reckless behavior. A tenured educator, like an unelected judge, is expected to represent reasonable ethical standards. Like a drunken judge careening down a the highway, Churchill's views are not only odious, they bring disrepute to the university he works for.
The isolation bubble atmosphere of university life seems to breed and encourage views that come across as cockeyed to normal-thinking people.
Paul Mossman
Kailua
That isolation bubble Paul Mossman mentioned is very real. Most profs spend a large portion of their life at the university. All the other people they meet are part of the university community. They even marry people within the university. In many ways, they are cut off the rest of the (non-university) world. While that is not bad in itself, that can lead to not relating to people outside the universities.
And in many universities, left-wing conspiracy theories are the in-thing. The more wackier the theories, the more intellectual you sound. You sound like a smart guy who figured it all out! That's how Churchill got his idiotic theories
Churchill, with his warped mind, takes a few facts about our foreign policy and then exxagarates, as if all America ever does is negative. Nevermind that the US has liberated Germany and Japan fromtheir fascist rulers. Nevermind that the US kept South Korea free of communist rule, allowing it to prosper. Nevermind that if the US didn't take Hawaii, Japan would. And that would've been massive rapes and genocide of Native Hawaiians. If Trask and Churchill think the US was bad to Hawaiians, they should investigate how barbaric the Japanese were to the natives of Korea and the Phillipines. IT WAS WORSE! That doesn't excuse any negative actions of the US, but Churchill needs to keep things in perspective!
The 9/11 terrorists weren't about liberating the Third World. These were Islamic Fascists whose allies continue to terrorize Third World people in places like Sudan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and throughout the Middle East.
Ward Churchill DOESN'T CARE about the victims of genocide in Sudan. Why? Because the terrorists involved are Muslims! I wish I could've asked him about that
!The ivory tower also leads to kooks like Dr William Foltz. Foltz spent the last few decades in the ivory tower. He is also an inconsiderate fool. Add that up, then you'll figure out why he is clueless in how to relate to modern-day college students.
Ward Churchill and Academic Freedom (Again)
The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article claiming that the people of Hawaii loved Ward Churchill. Again, things have been taken WAY OUT OF CONTEXT!
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=he8covazklilqc2f4b35xn1rywflqlwd
That article gives mainland whites the misconception that all of Hawaii is pro-Churchill due to the large presence of Asians and Polynesians, when in reality, it was UH white radicals (most of whom grew up in the mainland) who invited Churchill in the 1st place.
Most non-UH affiliated people I know think Churchill is a lower than a bag of manure. But they didn't throw stuff at him because 1) they're too busy with other things to attend that speech, 2)they didn't want to get roughed up by security, 3) they didn't want to get beat up by hippie radicals and Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics, 4) again, the culture of restraint common among traditional local Asians which discourages confrontation!
As for why I didn't throw stuff at Churchill, I already had plans for the night his idiotic speech happened. Plus, reasons #2 and #3 would've applied to me if I attended Churchill's speech. Reason #4 doesn't apply to me because I'm not Asian, but a lot of people in Hawaii are, so it applies to a lot of people.
As for the Native Hawaiians, some like Haunani-Kay Trask loved Churchill for his anti-American hatred. Those who oppose Trask aren't as vocal because they don't want to get outnumbered in a screaming match at their next family gathering. For some Native Hawaiians, opposing the Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics would lead to getting outcasted from their family. And in Hawaiian culture, extended family is VERY IMPORTANT. That's why some Native Hawaiians are silent on this. Unfortunately, this silence leads many non-Hawaiians to think all Hawaiians are sovereignty fanatics who want to kick out all the non-Hawaiians.
2) More evidence that the Radical Left at UH dont give a rat's ass about academic freedom.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/25/op/op10pletters.html
Grant Cromwell speaks again
While I support the UH administration's commitment to free speech and its approving the speaking visit of controversial ultra-left-wing professor Ward Churchill ("UH takes heat over visit by professor," Feb. 19), it has yet to be demonstrated that the key organizers of this event have the same noble commitment to free speech themselves.
One of the organizers of the event, UH American Studies professor David Stannard, was quoted in the article as saying, "If we invited a right-wing political commentator like Bill O'Reilly, we'd defend him the same way we defend Churchill."
Back when I was a student at UH and an editorial cartoonist and columnist for the student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawai'i, David Stannard was one of the very people who publicly demanded my firing from the newspaper for cartoons he considered "hate speech."
Take Tuesday's event for what it really was — a promotional tool for several professors who share Churchill's mentality of an immense hostility toward the United States. That's the reason they brought him here, not any commitment to free speech, which they have sorely lacked.
Grant Crowell
Elgin, Ill.
And this is how the UH Radical Left treats another non-leftist speaker
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/25/editorial/indexletters.html
With puffed-up chests we are proud that our university stands so firmly on matters of freedom and democracy. The controversial and perhaps anti-American Ward Churchill gets to speak. But what happened to these lofty ideals when it was Charlton Heston, then president of the National Rifle Association, scheduled to speak? After a minor controversy he was cancelled.
Perhaps freedom of speech only applies to those with whom UH agrees.
John Mack
Mililani
The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article claiming that the people of Hawaii loved Ward Churchill. Again, things have been taken WAY OUT OF CONTEXT!
http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=he8covazklilqc2f4b35xn1rywflqlwd
That article gives mainland whites the misconception that all of Hawaii is pro-Churchill due to the large presence of Asians and Polynesians, when in reality, it was UH white radicals (most of whom grew up in the mainland) who invited Churchill in the 1st place.
Most non-UH affiliated people I know think Churchill is a lower than a bag of manure. But they didn't throw stuff at him because 1) they're too busy with other things to attend that speech, 2)they didn't want to get roughed up by security, 3) they didn't want to get beat up by hippie radicals and Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics, 4) again, the culture of restraint common among traditional local Asians which discourages confrontation!
As for why I didn't throw stuff at Churchill, I already had plans for the night his idiotic speech happened. Plus, reasons #2 and #3 would've applied to me if I attended Churchill's speech. Reason #4 doesn't apply to me because I'm not Asian, but a lot of people in Hawaii are, so it applies to a lot of people.
As for the Native Hawaiians, some like Haunani-Kay Trask loved Churchill for his anti-American hatred. Those who oppose Trask aren't as vocal because they don't want to get outnumbered in a screaming match at their next family gathering. For some Native Hawaiians, opposing the Hawaiian sovereignty fanatics would lead to getting outcasted from their family. And in Hawaiian culture, extended family is VERY IMPORTANT. That's why some Native Hawaiians are silent on this. Unfortunately, this silence leads many non-Hawaiians to think all Hawaiians are sovereignty fanatics who want to kick out all the non-Hawaiians.
2) More evidence that the Radical Left at UH dont give a rat's ass about academic freedom.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/25/op/op10pletters.html
Grant Cromwell speaks again
While I support the UH administration's commitment to free speech and its approving the speaking visit of controversial ultra-left-wing professor Ward Churchill ("UH takes heat over visit by professor," Feb. 19), it has yet to be demonstrated that the key organizers of this event have the same noble commitment to free speech themselves.
One of the organizers of the event, UH American Studies professor David Stannard, was quoted in the article as saying, "If we invited a right-wing political commentator like Bill O'Reilly, we'd defend him the same way we defend Churchill."
Back when I was a student at UH and an editorial cartoonist and columnist for the student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawai'i, David Stannard was one of the very people who publicly demanded my firing from the newspaper for cartoons he considered "hate speech."
Take Tuesday's event for what it really was — a promotional tool for several professors who share Churchill's mentality of an immense hostility toward the United States. That's the reason they brought him here, not any commitment to free speech, which they have sorely lacked.
Grant Crowell
Elgin, Ill.
And this is how the UH Radical Left treats another non-leftist speaker
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/25/editorial/indexletters.html
With puffed-up chests we are proud that our university stands so firmly on matters of freedom and democracy. The controversial and perhaps anti-American Ward Churchill gets to speak. But what happened to these lofty ideals when it was Charlton Heston, then president of the National Rifle Association, scheduled to speak? After a minor controversy he was cancelled.
Perhaps freedom of speech only applies to those with whom UH agrees.
John Mack
Mililani
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Light Rail, Sprinklers
1) On the proposed light rail on Oahu, here's some comments from Don Rochon
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/24/op/op10pletters.html
Rep. Marilyn Lee, ......., recently opined in your newspaper about the need to raise the general excise tax to fund a new rail system. She said "driving a car is expensive" (as if people who drive cars don't already know this). Then she provided statistics from the American Automobile Association that a motorist would save over $2,000 a year by driving 10,000 fewer miles.
This is where the logic breaks down. Her assumption begs the point that just because you build a mass-transit rail line, motorists will give up their cars as their primary transportation vehicle. It's not about the $2,000. It's about the convenience of leaving home when you want to, taking children to school (and picking them up afterward), of going to the bank or running other necessary errands at lunchtime or after work, or even stopping by on the way home to pick up something for dinner from the market.
Rail transit will not decrease the number of motorists on the highway. This is nonsense! Moreover, motorists will not drive to a place just so they can get out of their cars to catch a rail line, then worry about their cars being broken into all day long.
Unfortunately, light rail proponents dont care about the facts! Most people who support building a light rail aren't even going to ride it. They want a light rail in hopes that it will get others (not themselves) off the road. With thousands of people with that mentality, traffic jams will still exist on the H-1 freeway.
Plus, chances are, something would have to be forced out of the way to make room for a light rail station. It might mean (though I cant say for sure yet) my apartment near UH might have to move. Or it could be your home that would have to move!
However, every light rail proponent that appeared as a guest in my Urban Planning class last semester were evasive when I asked them about what would have to move out of the way in order to move room for the light rail!
They thought their evasiveness would mean more support for the light rail. WRONG! It made me LESS supportive of light rail. That I didn't start a screaming match with those loosers just goes to show how much restraint I have. (Plus my respect to the rest of class by me refusing to waste their time with listening to screaming matches with evasive light-rail supporting guest)
2) On Mufi's proposal to force all high-rises to install sprinklers, Stephany L. Sofos has this to say
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/24/op/op10pletters.html
Alternative ideas must be looked at before the Legislature makes laws. Many people purchased condominiums because they could not afford single-family homes. Many live within very tight budgets. An average retrofit will cost the individual apartment owner anywhere from $5 to $15 per square foot for his unit. An average unit today is approximately 850 square feet, so the cost is anywhere from $4,250 to $12,750. This is not counting the individual condominium association's direct costs for the common areas. The burden of money will again come to the individual owner in the form of assessments, which will run in the thousands.
This means people would be forced out of their apartments, and have to find somewhere else to live. That might mean more people finding living space in West Oahu, while still having to work in Honolulu. That means higher risk of car accidents! So much for "if it saves one life" nonsense (By the I mentioned that in my letter to Mayor Mufi Hannneman and my City Council representative Ann Kobayashi)
I live in a low rise apartment without fire sprinklers. So I might end up getting screwed by this.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Ward Churchill @ UH
Last night, admitted Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill spoke at UH.
Here is some commentary
1) My letter to Ka Leo on this topic
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/23/421c6ea54a571
Letters to the Editor
'Radical leftists' hypocritical
February 23, 2005
How ironic that the Radical Leftists at this university defend the invitation of admitted al-Qaeda sympathizer Ward Churchill by mentioning "academic freedom"!
Yet, where were those same Radical Leftists in Fall 2002 when the staff of University of Hawaii's Academy of Lifelong Learning were threatened for inviting Ken Conklin to teach a non-credit course that took a critical look at Hawaiian sovereignty?
If an admitted al-Qaeda sympathizer like Ward Churchill should have academic freedom, so should Ken Conklin and any other non-leftist speaker.
Pablo Wegesend
UH alumnus
Honolulu, HI
And here is a response to my letter to the editor from Shari Thurow
As a former University of Hawai'i graduate student, I wanted to speak out about this topic for over 10 years, but I felt that Grant Crowell made enough satisfactory statements.
Now, I have changed my mind.Haunani Trask is a racist and a hypocrite. I am amazed that she has not been reprimanded for her actions. Had she said or done things that occurred at the UH campus at any other major university, she would have been reprimanded.
No professor would get away with the polluted, racist statements she has made toward students. I defy her to come to a different university as a professor and make her racist remarks to an African American, Native American, or Hispanic student. Or any student for that matter. Other administrations would have been on top of her inappropriate comments within seconds.
When I attended UH from 1990-1993, Trask made it very clear to me and many of my fellow students that my "type" was not welcome there. I expect better behavior from university professors.
Trask is certainly entitled to her opinions and her First Amendment rights, but she should not be allowed to exhibit her racist mentality toward any student, no matter that student's race.
I already know what Trask thinks of me (and I quote): She wants to kick in my face, and puncture both my eyes, slit my heart with a knife and put a fist in my mouth.
UH deserves better scholars than her. It's a shame that a normally intelligent human being can be so polluted with hate.
Oh yeah, Haunani, I married Crowell. I'd love to hear your garbage opinions on that statement, considering that I formed my opinion of you long before I met him. I met you in person. I listened to your hate speeches. And he does not know that I sent this letter (yet). You don't know me. Your opinions about me are uneducated and uninformed.
This Trask debate should be over. I should not be revisiting this issue over 10 years later. Haunani, that means you need to grow up, look in the mirror, and face your own hypocrisy and racism. Crowell isn't the "publicity-seeking egomaniac."
End of my rant. Thank you, UH, for allowing me to express my opinion.
Shari Thurow
Marketing Director
Illinois
2) Churchill ISN'T a true defender of academic freedom
Check the following out
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3568706,00.html
Grant Crowell finds it ironic that Ward Churchill was at the University of Hawaii holding forth on free speech Tuesday, because he believes Churchill tried to limit his own when he was a student there.
Crowell authored a cartoon while a student at UH-Manoa in 1994 taking a shot at Haunani-Kay Trask, a professor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies who helped arrange Churchill's return visit there this week.
In an interview Tuesday from his home in Carpentersville, Ill., Crowell said Churchill went even further, that day."He used the name of an unnamed Nazi cartoonist, who was convicted during the Nuremberg Trials, executed, dismembered, and cremated," said Crowell, who attended the 1994 rally where he was assailed."
Churchill was saying, 'I'm not saying this should happen to Grant - but if it did, it could be a good thing,' " Crowell alleged.
So much for Ward Churchill defending academic freedom
As for that offending cartoon, link to
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/art/news/022305cartoon.shtml
Seen it? The cartoon didn't even insult Native Hawaiians, it was directed at Haunani-Kay Trask. But in Trask's mind, anyone who doesn't kiss her ass is considered "anti-Hawaiian"
Last night, admitted Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill spoke at UH.
Here is some commentary
1) My letter to Ka Leo on this topic
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/23/421c6ea54a571
Letters to the Editor
'Radical leftists' hypocritical
February 23, 2005
How ironic that the Radical Leftists at this university defend the invitation of admitted al-Qaeda sympathizer Ward Churchill by mentioning "academic freedom"!
Yet, where were those same Radical Leftists in Fall 2002 when the staff of University of Hawaii's Academy of Lifelong Learning were threatened for inviting Ken Conklin to teach a non-credit course that took a critical look at Hawaiian sovereignty?
If an admitted al-Qaeda sympathizer like Ward Churchill should have academic freedom, so should Ken Conklin and any other non-leftist speaker.
Pablo Wegesend
UH alumnus
Honolulu, HI
And here is a response to my letter to the editor from Shari Thurow
As a former University of Hawai'i graduate student, I wanted to speak out about this topic for over 10 years, but I felt that Grant Crowell made enough satisfactory statements.
Now, I have changed my mind.Haunani Trask is a racist and a hypocrite. I am amazed that she has not been reprimanded for her actions. Had she said or done things that occurred at the UH campus at any other major university, she would have been reprimanded.
No professor would get away with the polluted, racist statements she has made toward students. I defy her to come to a different university as a professor and make her racist remarks to an African American, Native American, or Hispanic student. Or any student for that matter. Other administrations would have been on top of her inappropriate comments within seconds.
When I attended UH from 1990-1993, Trask made it very clear to me and many of my fellow students that my "type" was not welcome there. I expect better behavior from university professors.
Trask is certainly entitled to her opinions and her First Amendment rights, but she should not be allowed to exhibit her racist mentality toward any student, no matter that student's race.
I already know what Trask thinks of me (and I quote): She wants to kick in my face, and puncture both my eyes, slit my heart with a knife and put a fist in my mouth.
UH deserves better scholars than her. It's a shame that a normally intelligent human being can be so polluted with hate.
Oh yeah, Haunani, I married Crowell. I'd love to hear your garbage opinions on that statement, considering that I formed my opinion of you long before I met him. I met you in person. I listened to your hate speeches. And he does not know that I sent this letter (yet). You don't know me. Your opinions about me are uneducated and uninformed.
This Trask debate should be over. I should not be revisiting this issue over 10 years later. Haunani, that means you need to grow up, look in the mirror, and face your own hypocrisy and racism. Crowell isn't the "publicity-seeking egomaniac."
End of my rant. Thank you, UH, for allowing me to express my opinion.
Shari Thurow
Marketing Director
Illinois
2) Churchill ISN'T a true defender of academic freedom
Check the following out
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3568706,00.html
Grant Crowell finds it ironic that Ward Churchill was at the University of Hawaii holding forth on free speech Tuesday, because he believes Churchill tried to limit his own when he was a student there.
Crowell authored a cartoon while a student at UH-Manoa in 1994 taking a shot at Haunani-Kay Trask, a professor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies who helped arrange Churchill's return visit there this week.
In an interview Tuesday from his home in Carpentersville, Ill., Crowell said Churchill went even further, that day."He used the name of an unnamed Nazi cartoonist, who was convicted during the Nuremberg Trials, executed, dismembered, and cremated," said Crowell, who attended the 1994 rally where he was assailed."
Churchill was saying, 'I'm not saying this should happen to Grant - but if it did, it could be a good thing,' " Crowell alleged.
So much for Ward Churchill defending academic freedom
As for that offending cartoon, link to
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/art/news/022305cartoon.shtml
Seen it? The cartoon didn't even insult Native Hawaiians, it was directed at Haunani-Kay Trask. But in Trask's mind, anyone who doesn't kiss her ass is considered "anti-Hawaiian"
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Ward Churchill @ UH 2night!
Admitted Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill is speaking at UH tonight at 7pm.
I wont be there. I already had something planned for that time.
If I had less restraint, I would throw eggs, oranges, etc at him.
1) I worry that Churchill's speech at UH (likely 2 be covered by Fox News, talk radio, etc) will put Hawaii in a bad light. It might give middle America the impression that most of Hawaii loves Ward Churchill and they'll get the impression that Hawaii is anti-American due to its large presence of Asians and Polynesians.
The reality is that Churchill was invited by IMPORTED white radicals who are originally from the mainland U.S. At most universities, most of faculty got their advanced degrees elsewhere! This is a common practice at most universities that not that many people know about. (meaning, if you got a PhD from Harvard, you'll most likely get hired outside of Harvard)
This is why the average UH professor is a white person from the mainland. And being that many colleges are radical left feifdoms, the average UH prof in humanities and social sciences are white radical leftists who grew up in the mainland. It is they who invited Ward Churchill in the first place, not the average Asian/Polynesian resident of Hawaii.
Yes, some Hawaiian sovereignty activists sympathize with Churchill. But my experience with Native Hawaiians at UH is that most of them ARE NOT POLITICAL ACTIVISTS! In fact, one Hawaiian girl I knew said none of her realtives are involved in sovereignty movement or any political movement! (That might surprised some non-native Hawaiians here!)
It's just that the ones who make most of the noise (and get media coverage) are the extreme fanatics like Haunani-Kay Trask. The media loves to cover Trask due to her controversial statements. But too many non-Hawaiians get the impression that Trask gets the coverage for her popularity among Hawaiians, when reality is that media isn't interested in soft-spoken speakers, period. They want loudmouths like Trask, so they can fill in space in newspapers and TV time. Remember, the media's priority is newspaper sales and TV ratings!
2) Churchill's comments about tourists in Hawaii
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/22/ln/ln23p.html
In a transcription of a speech Feb. 22, 2003, at the First Congregational Church of Oakland, Calif., Churchill was quoted as saying of Hawai'i: "There are just way too many tourists that go and visit. You want to do something constructive for indigenous Hawaiians? Stay home. And if you have to break their knee caps in order to get them to, do it."
Hey Churchill, Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!
3) On Churchill's phony claim about being a Native American
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?c94f3fc8-0955-4341-9256-1baa1f464e9f
When asked by Hawaii Reporter in a Feb. 21, 2005, press conference if he is American Indian, Churchill became enraged by the question, said it was irrelevant and would not answer. When pressed by Hawaii Reporter and other media present on the American Indian issue, Churchill called the question "racist," and asked if President George W. Bush should have to confirm he is white. When KITV Reporter Denby Fawcett said to Churchill, "We'll take that as a 'no,'" Churchill lunged at Fawcett shouting "What did you say?" Fawcett said since he would not answer "yes" and confirm his heritage, he must not be American Indian. In a fury, Churchill stormed away from reporters, ending the press conference.
it was too funny to not be mentioned here!
4) Due to the Churchill idiocy, many ethnic studies departments have been on the defensive.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E2722200,00.html?search=filter
There's nothing wrong in studying the history of ethnic groups, what they went through and what they have accomplished.
Unfortunately, too many ethnic study profs are Radical Leftists who care more about hating America than admiring the accomplishments of non-white Americans.
For a good read about immigrants, check out Micheal Barone's "New Americans". There you can learn about African Americans as well as European, Latino, and Asians immigrants, the obstacles they faced and what they accomplished.
Admitted Al Quaida sympathizer Ward Churchill is speaking at UH tonight at 7pm.
I wont be there. I already had something planned for that time.
If I had less restraint, I would throw eggs, oranges, etc at him.
1) I worry that Churchill's speech at UH (likely 2 be covered by Fox News, talk radio, etc) will put Hawaii in a bad light. It might give middle America the impression that most of Hawaii loves Ward Churchill and they'll get the impression that Hawaii is anti-American due to its large presence of Asians and Polynesians.
The reality is that Churchill was invited by IMPORTED white radicals who are originally from the mainland U.S. At most universities, most of faculty got their advanced degrees elsewhere! This is a common practice at most universities that not that many people know about. (meaning, if you got a PhD from Harvard, you'll most likely get hired outside of Harvard)
This is why the average UH professor is a white person from the mainland. And being that many colleges are radical left feifdoms, the average UH prof in humanities and social sciences are white radical leftists who grew up in the mainland. It is they who invited Ward Churchill in the first place, not the average Asian/Polynesian resident of Hawaii.
Yes, some Hawaiian sovereignty activists sympathize with Churchill. But my experience with Native Hawaiians at UH is that most of them ARE NOT POLITICAL ACTIVISTS! In fact, one Hawaiian girl I knew said none of her realtives are involved in sovereignty movement or any political movement! (That might surprised some non-native Hawaiians here!)
It's just that the ones who make most of the noise (and get media coverage) are the extreme fanatics like Haunani-Kay Trask. The media loves to cover Trask due to her controversial statements. But too many non-Hawaiians get the impression that Trask gets the coverage for her popularity among Hawaiians, when reality is that media isn't interested in soft-spoken speakers, period. They want loudmouths like Trask, so they can fill in space in newspapers and TV time. Remember, the media's priority is newspaper sales and TV ratings!
2) Churchill's comments about tourists in Hawaii
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/22/ln/ln23p.html
In a transcription of a speech Feb. 22, 2003, at the First Congregational Church of Oakland, Calif., Churchill was quoted as saying of Hawai'i: "There are just way too many tourists that go and visit. You want to do something constructive for indigenous Hawaiians? Stay home. And if you have to break their knee caps in order to get them to, do it."
Hey Churchill, Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!
3) On Churchill's phony claim about being a Native American
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?c94f3fc8-0955-4341-9256-1baa1f464e9f
When asked by Hawaii Reporter in a Feb. 21, 2005, press conference if he is American Indian, Churchill became enraged by the question, said it was irrelevant and would not answer. When pressed by Hawaii Reporter and other media present on the American Indian issue, Churchill called the question "racist," and asked if President George W. Bush should have to confirm he is white. When KITV Reporter Denby Fawcett said to Churchill, "We'll take that as a 'no,'" Churchill lunged at Fawcett shouting "What did you say?" Fawcett said since he would not answer "yes" and confirm his heritage, he must not be American Indian. In a fury, Churchill stormed away from reporters, ending the press conference.
it was too funny to not be mentioned here!
4) Due to the Churchill idiocy, many ethnic studies departments have been on the defensive.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E2722200,00.html?search=filter
There's nothing wrong in studying the history of ethnic groups, what they went through and what they have accomplished.
Unfortunately, too many ethnic study profs are Radical Leftists who care more about hating America than admiring the accomplishments of non-white Americans.
For a good read about immigrants, check out Micheal Barone's "New Americans". There you can learn about African Americans as well as European, Latino, and Asians immigrants, the obstacles they faced and what they accomplished.
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