it's been weeks since I last posted on my blog.
However, here is my highlights that I posted on other online outlets!
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There's been a bunch of memes complaining that Macklemore won more Grammys than some legendary rappers of the 80s and 90s.
The implication is that that Macklemore is favored over those rappers because of his European-American ancestry!
But I remind people that the Grammy's is a ANNUAL (meaning a year-based) award
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Song
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Solo_Performance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rap_Performance_by_a_Duo_or_Group
For solo awards, in 1995, 2pac and Biggie weren't competing with Macklemore, they were competing with Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" a super mega-hit of the year!
In 1997, Biggie's "Hypotize" wasn't competing with Macklemore, he was competing with Will Smith, who was coming back to making rap songs after becoming a mega-star actor!
For rap albums, As for 2pac, as much as I loved "All Eyez on Me", it lost because it was competing against the Fugees "The Score" the same year!
2pac's "Me Against the World" had some meaningful songs, but it was up against Naughty By Nature "Poverty Paradise"!
For Notorious BIG, as much as I loved "Life After Death", it came out the same year as his producer Puff Daddy's debut album!
Just like Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing not winning NBA championships, because they played in the same era as Micheal Jordan! Hakeem Olajuwon also outshined those other guys when Micheal Jordan was experimenting with baseball!
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Someone thought they found me on this following article
http://www.movoto.com/hi/hawaii-dating/
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The person on the right is not me! But yeah, he does look like me! I never wore that Aloha shirt, but I like the design :)
Meanwhile that article has some silly stereotypes about Hawaii, but it was obvious that the article was never meant to be taken literally!
One person said the following
Keone Rivers ·
what a load of haole colonialist bull (****).
and someone else said the following
Noah P. H. Dolim ·
Diana Caswell : Haole is an attitude as well.
OK, that the word "haole is an attitude" promotes a racial stereotype, so I said the following
Pablo Wegesend ·
Noah P. H. Dolim imagine is someone said "n---- is an attitude as well"? Well, someone else besides Chris Rock?
BTW, I'm from Hawaii (McKinley grad!) so don't let my looks and name fool you!
That last sentence was to prevent others from accusing me of being an outsider who doesn't understand Hawaii.
Lo and behold, Keone Rivers made the following comments
Keone Rivers ·
Pablo Wegesend that is a laughable false equivalent, it only demonstrates you dont know what haole means. haole can indeed be an attitude, ho'ohaole is an example of that. the N word is a racial slur invented by white supremacists, haole is simply another word in the Hawaiian lexicon, that predates the arrival of the first white people. at no time have white people EVER been captured and enslaved for generations by Native Hawaiians, to the contrary it is white people that INVADED US and continue to enforce their white supremacy in our illegally occupied homeland.
I respond by saying words change meaning over time.
Back to Keone Rivers
Keone Rivers ·
Pablo Wegesend lol buy a dictionary, what it means is that you are comparing apples to oranges and arent sufficiently educated to even understand that. the fact that some words meanings change over time does not change the fact that you do not speak Hawaiian and do not understand it. do you understand the folly in debating a language you DO NOT know with a native speaker of that language?
Ooooh, I better back down!
Actually, I was referring to how the word "haole" is used in modern times!
Pablo Wegesend ·
You're the expert in pre-colonial meanings. In modern times, people use the phrase "haole as an attitude" with the stereotype of "Euro-American coming with bad intentions." Very few in modern times even fit that description, but as soon as a Euro-American make a mistake (no matter how minor), they get tagged as "f----- haole", usually by people who cant even speak fluent Hawaiian. That's what I meant by "word meanings change over time". This is just an observation of how that word is being used in modern times.
Now, it's about to get classic!
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In other words, Keone couldn't overcome my 2 paragraphs because ...........it's true!
Well, Keone Rivers had no response (as of this post's publishing) to the following
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Now, I don't think "haole" is always used in a negative term. It can be used in a neutral way (ie. "my haole friend"), or even to refer to oneself (ie . "I was the only haole guy in the class").
But Keone was being evasive in the real issue .................the word's use has changed to refer to just those of European-ancestry (even those whose family has been in Hawaii for generations). To the point where even immigrants use the word "haole" just thinking it's just another word for "white" .....................because ............................modern people of Hawaii just use the word "haole" to refer to European-descendants!
As for me, even though I got a German last name, I never get called a "haole" because I look mostly Mexican! But my half-brother (with a different father) ..........................yes, he's been called a "haole".
