Lowrider Magazine - end of an era

I'm not much of a car enthusiast! 
In fact, I can't even operate a motor vehicle!

However,  I was a fan of Lowrider Magazine.

The copies of Lowrider Magazines that I bought

Yes, there were the cars & the women in the magazine.

But there was more to the magazine than that! 

The magazine was also a window to the Chicano (Mexican-American) culture and was very assertive in standing up against the stigma  & stereotyping towards Latinos & other minorities.

The magazine had articles and printed letters from readers about being racially profiled by police, mall security, school officials and more. 

The magazine also printed artwork with various symbols from the Chicano, Mexican and other Latin@ cultures.

For me, being in Hawaii and of part-Mexican ancestry, this magazine gave me an insight into a subculture of people of a similar ancestry but living in a different context from me. 

While most of the focus of Lowrider Magazine is on the Latino community, it wasn't limited to that! The magazine did interview African-American rappers (like Snoop Dogg & Ice Cube) and showcased lowrider shows in Japan! 

The magazine was about making everyone feel welcome into a subculture started by Chicanos. 

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In the 21st century, magazine readership, in general, has declined. Many publications have either shut down or just focused on digital content. 

Lowrider Magazine is no longer publishing print copies. It will be an end of an era when people would go to a 7-11 to get the latest copy! 

However, Lowrider Magazine will still have an online presence at 
https://www.lowrider.com/



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From Mitú, a website focused on the  Latino community in the US


Javier Rojas, “End of an Era as Lowrider Magazine Will Cease Printing After 42 Years,” Mitú , December 20, 2019, https://wearemitu.com/culture/lowrider-magazine-publishing/.

After 42 years, Lowrider magazine is nearing its last ride as the publication will cease printing at the end of this year. For many Chicanos living in Southern California in the 1980s, the magazine became a cultural icon when it came to content on everything from cool cars to flashy tires. Beyond just the world of cars, Lowrider gave insight on political and cultural issues that were focused on Chicano identity. In some ways, the magazine played a role in bringing lowrider and Chicano culture to the mainstream in a way that no publication had before.

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 The magazine was much, much more than just pin-up models and cars.” Noe Adame, a correspondent for L.A. Taco, told the news site. 

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“At its heart, it’s been a key tool to keeping alive Chicanismo and Chicano identity,” Denise Sandoval, a lowrider expert and professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge, told the LA Times. “I’ve met so many people who are not Chicano, that because they’re part of the lowrider community, they learn about Chicano history through that magazine.” Lowrider also challenged negative, stereotypical perceptions of lowriders as tough thugs and gang members. 

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From the Los Angeles Times

Dorany Pineda, “The Life and Death of Lowrider: How the Chicano Car Magazine Shaped California,” Los Angeles Times, December 14, 2019,
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-12-13/lowrider-magazine-ceases-print.

In its first generation, Lowrider was more than just a car magazine. It was capturing historical moments within the Chicano community. For one of its regular sections, “Lowriders of the Past,” readers would send in photos of family members posing with their customized vintage cars from back in the 1940s Pachuco era. Another section, “La Raza Report,” featured writeups about political or educational happenings in the community. The magazine also ran a Dear Abby-like advice column, poetry and short stories.

“It was really an art magazine, a community history magazine, all around the love of lowriders,” said Denise Sandoval, a lowrider expert and professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge. It even funded a scholarship program for Latino students.

Though the magazine’s political and social messaging eventually diminished, it continued to celebrate and lift up an otherwise overlooked and underrepresented community.

“At its heart, it’s been a key tool to keeping alive Chicanismo and Chicano identity,” Sandoval said. “I’ve met so many people who are not Chicano, that because they’re part of the lowrider community, they learn about Chicano history through that magazine.” Lowrider also challenged negative, stereotypical perceptions of lowriders as tough thugs and gang members.

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From the San Francisco Chronicle

Montse Reyes, “Lowrider’s Last Cruise in Print,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2020, https://www.sfgate.com/culture/article/Lowrider-magazine-founded-in-San-Jose-takes-its-14946068.php?t=4590df8ed0.

The tradition of riding low and slow has deep roots for Latinos in the United States, stretching back to the 1940s, when Mexican American youth in oversize zoot suits — known as pachucos — would throw in bags of cement or sand to lower their Chevrolets. The lowriders were roving political statements, a declaration of both pride in Mexican heritage in the face of discrimination, and defiance of the fast-and-slick hot rods popular among young, white Americans.

Technology evolved, with sandbags soon giving way to hydraulic pumps that could raise or lower the customized cars with the flip of a switch at the owner’s behest, creating the modern lowrider style most have come to recognize today.

The magazine took note of how the police treated Latinos driving lowriders and contrasted it to how the police treated Anglos who tend to ride hot rods.

 A 1958 law in California outlawed cars that had any part lower than the bottom of the wheel’s rim. From then on, lowriders became associated with gangs and violence, arguably spurred by racist stereotypes of the young, often working-class brown and black men who drove the cars.

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The police involvement always seemed to have an element of racial profiling, according to Hernandez.

“While we were doing that on Mission Street, across the city, in the Sunset, on the Great Highway, the hot rodders — which were all the white boys — were racing for pink slips,” he says, meaning the winner takes the loser’s car. “And the police and the city never messed with them.”

Lowrider magazine provided an antidote. Spurred by the energy around the Chicano civil rights movement, Madrid, Gonzalez and Nunez set out to feature lowrider culture with appreciation and affection, while also covering social and political issues important to the Chicano community.

Alongside customized cars, Lowrider’s pages featured sections like La Raza Report, short stories, poetry and comics made by Chicanos. At one point, they even started a now-defunct music label, Thump Records, and had a scholarship program for young Chicanos. 

Thank you Lowrider Magazine for being in existence and for lifting up the spirits of millions :) 

2019 memorials

Usually, at the end of the year, I might comment on those who passed away.  I didn't have the time to do so at the end of 2019. But I decide to do so now.

Of course, I won't be able to write about every person with a dose of fame, especially if I don't know much about them.

I already wrote about the following

Dick Tomey
https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-memory-of-dick-tomey-1938-2019.html


Nipsey Hussle & John Singleton
https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2019/05/nipsey-hussle-john-singleton.html





Now for a few more

Ross Perot

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Ross Perot

Ross Perot was an eccentric entrepreneur who later ran for president (sounds familiar).

Perot gained his billions by buying one of the early entrepreneurs in the computer industry. He started Electronic Data Systems in 1962, and then Perot Systems in the 1980s.

In 1992, Perot ran for US president as an independent candidate. His campaign focused on eliminating the national debt and against trade deals that he felt would put the US at a disadvantage.

While he wasn't part of the major political parties, he did have more than enough money to fund infomercials to promote his campaign. Many people were fascinated by his use of charts to describe national problems and how to solve them

He did drop out  & later re-entered the presidential race, making many people suspicious about how dedicated he really was to become president.

However, he was able to enter the presidential debates against the incumbent George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Perot was able to get 19% of the popular vote, a lot more than most minor-party candidates usually get. However, it wasn't enough, and Bill Clinton ultimately won the election.

In 1996, Ross Perot ran for president again. Unfortunately, he wasn't invited to debate the major party candidates (Bill Clinton & Bob Dole) and only got 8% of the popular vote!

1992 was the last time that candidates from other political parties were ever allowed to debate the Democrat & Republican nominees for president.  This is a national tragedy in that people don't get a chance to hear those from "third parties" challenge the major party candidates on their positions.   The major political parties are afraid of someone being inspired by Ross Perot and humiliating the major party politicians on national TV, so they avoid debates with what they consider "inferior beings" from the outside.

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Ross Perot died from leukemia in July 2019

David Koch

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David Koch

David Koch, along with his brother Charles Koch, are known as the Koch Brothers, the oil company executives who gave millions to political causes.

The Koch Brothers are usually considered "conservatives", but they are really more aligned with libertarians. In fact, David Koch attempted to become the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1980.

They sided with Republicans on lowering taxes, reducing regulations on businesses, and were openly skeptical towards global warming (this earned them major hostility from the Radical Left).

However, the Koch Brothers also sided with more liberal causes like criminal justice reform, drug decriminalization and a more lenient immigration policy (this really alienated them from the Republican Party since Trump took over).

Outside of politics, the Koch Brothers also gave millions to the arts &  medical research. 

Charles Koch was able to survive prostate cancer for 27 years until he passed away in August 2019. 

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison

                                            

Toni Morrison was a prominent author, editor & professor.

Her writings focused on various aspects of African-American life and dealt with the harsh realities of slavery, racism and sexual abuse.

Her most popular novel Beloved won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a movie featuring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American women to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

Morrison did get some controversy when she stated in 1998 that Bill Clinton was "America's first black president" due to his popularity with the African-American community as well as his life story associated with various stereotypes of African-Americans (single mother, poverty, jazz, his fried foods diet). Obviously, this offended many people.  Ten years later, the USA elected an actual African-American person as president - Barack Obama!  Obama later awarded Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Morrison passed away in August 2019 due to pneumonia

Robert Mugabe

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Robert Mugabe

He was a rebel fighting for the rights of the indigenous people of Zimbabwe when it was a British colony of Rhodesia.

White domination of Zimbabwe ended in 1979. There was much hope when Mugabe became the first black president of Zimbabwe.

However, white oppression was replaced by black oppression under Mugabe's reign of terror.  While much of the Western world's attention focused on European-descendants being victimized by Mugabe's lynch mobs, the majority of his victims were other indigenous Africans.

This was such a huge contrast to Nelson Mandela in neighboring South Africa. While Mandela was bold in his fight against the apartheid regime, when he took power, he advocated racial & ethnic reconciliation even when others weren't in the mood for it.  He also refused to run for re-election because he truly believed that South Africa was best served by a peaceful transfer of power instead of having a ruler of life.

When Mandela was released from imprisonment, many European South Africans feared he was going to be the next Robert Mugabe.  He wasn't! 


I compared Nelson Mandela & Robert Mugabe   in previous blog posts 
https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2019/02/yesterdays-victims-can-be-tomorrows.html https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2013/12/nelson-mandela.html


Other articles on Robert Mugabe and his reign of terror

Lawrence Pintak, “I met Robert Mugabe in the late 1970s. What he told me still haunts me.,” Vox, September 6, 2019,
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/9/6/20853400/robert-mugabe-dead-zimbabwe-president-zanu-pf

Joseph Winter, “Robert Mugabe: From liberator to tyrant,” BBC, September 6, 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27519044

Tricia Escobedo, David McKenzie, and Hilary Clarke, “Robert Mugabe, Who Once Said 'Only God' Could Ever Remove Him, Dies at 95,” CNN, September 6, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/africa/robert-mugabe-intl-hnk/index.html

Nicholas Kristof, “If Only Mugabe Were White,” New York Times, June 28, 2008
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinion/29kristof.html?hp

Nicholas Kristof, “Looking Away from Mugabe's Tyranny,” New York Times, April 4, 2004
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/opinion/nicholas-d-kristof-looking-away-from-mugabes-tyranny.html


Robert Mugabe finally met his end in September 2019 due to cancer. He was in a Singapore hospital for treatment when he died. Meaning, after so many decades as ruler of Zimbabwe, he couldn't get one decent hospital in his own country that he trusted to save his life. 

Cokie Roberts

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Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts was one of the pioneers among women working in political journalism back in the 1960s & 1970's. She worked with various local TV stations around the country, and then with NPR.

She later became a  co-host of ABC's political talk show "This Week". She also wrote many articles on the political scene.

While working with mostly liberal-dominated stations, she was known to be fair when dealing with Republicans. 

Bobby Allyn and Scott Neuman, “Cokie Roberts, Pioneering Journalist Who Helped Shape Npr, Dies at 75,” National Public Radio, September 17, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75

Political journalist George Will, who worked with Roberts on ABC's This Week, said Roberts was not just born to the political class but was a natural inhabitant. 

"She liked people on both sides of the aisle and had friends on both sides of the aisle," Will told NPR. "If you don't like the game of politics, I don't see how you write about it well," he said. "She liked the game of politics and she understood that it was a game."

However, she was unsparing in her criticism of Donald Trump when he ran for president. 

"[Trump] is one of the least qualified candidates ever to make a serious run for the presidency," Roberts and her husband wrote. "If he is nominated by a major party — let alone elected — the reputation of the United States would suffer a devastating blow around the world."

Learn more at

Karma Allen, Meghan Keneally, and Nancy Gabriner, “Legendary Journalist and Political Commentator Cokie Roberts Dies at 75,” ABC News, September 17, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/US/legendary-journalist-political-commentator-cokie-roberts-dies-75/story?id=65633507.

John Conyers

US Congress

John Conyers

John Conyers was a long-time Congressman from Michigan and one of the co-founders of the Congressional Black Caucus.

He was an advocate of civil rights legislation, introduced a bill to have a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, pushed for sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime and defended the rights of Muslims.

While he was very woke on racial justice, he wasn't so woke in his dealings with women. His career ended with the #metoo movement taking note of his various sexual harassment allegations.  

  Learn more at 

Melissa Nann Burke and Gregg Krupa, “John Conyers, Longest-Serving Black Member of Congress in History, Dies,” Detroit News, October 27, 2019, https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/10/27/john-conyers-obituary/2908410002/.

Elijah Cummings

US Congress

Elijah Cummings

Cummings was another longtime legislature and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Cummings had his first dibs in civil rights activism when he was 11, when he & his friends worked to integrate a swimming pool in Baltimore. He later majored in political science and was a student government president at Howard University. He spent 13 years in the state assembly, and 23 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. 


More recently, Elijah Cummings advocated for the impeachment of Donald Trump.  Trump hit back by noting the rat-infested buildings in Cumming's Baltimore district. However, one of the slumlords operating there happened to be Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law & senior advisor. 

Matthew Rozsa, “Kushner properties under renewed scrutiny after Trump calls Baltimore a 'rodent infested mess',” Salon, July 29, 2019,
https://www.salon.com/2019/07/29/kushner-properties-under-renewed-scrutiny-after-trump-calls-baltimore-a-rodent-infested-mess/

 It turns out that Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law who works alongside the commander-in-chief at the White House, owns property in the Maryland city with a history of actual rodent problems, according to a pair of investigations.

"It is certainly ironic that the president’s own son-in-law was complicit in contributing to some of the neglect that the president purports to be so concerned about," Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr. told the Washington Post on Saturday.

Trump, being a person who wants to have it both ways, gave a very insincere tribute to Elijah Cummings when he died. 

There is a more sincere tribute from a  Republican, Trey Gowdy, who worked with Elijah Cummings in Congress

Trey Gowdy, “Elijah cummings and I were political opponents. We were also good friends.,” Washington Post, October 10, 2019,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/10/18/elijah-cummings-i-were-political-opponents-we-were-also-good-friends/

There are more than a few YouTube videos of Elijah and me disagreeing with each other over the years. Unfortunately, there are no videos capturing his calls of encouragement to me. Or of me pushing him in his wheelchair — he would have done the same for me — because I wanted to talk with him while we walked. Or of Elijah going out of his way to encourage a member of my staff because he knew what it was like to be a young professional of color; because his desire to see her succeed exceeded any and every political difference they may have had.

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Our life experiences were different. Our political beliefs could not have been more different. We disagreed on most issues, from how to address gun violence to which questions are appropriately asked during a decennial census. We both had a passion for criminal justice reform, but even when we agreed on the destination, we frequently had different paths to get there. He championed “ban the box” legislation, while I thought there was a different route to giving people a second chance. The political environment we served in together could not have been more challenging: the Benghazi hearings, the Fast and Furious hearings and hearings surrounding the 2016 election. Our committee assignments and respective leadership teams seemed to thrust us into almost every contentious issue facing Congress. Yet we never had a cross word outside of a committee room during the years we served together.

To the contrary, I had genuine affection for Elijah, and I admired the path he took, over the course of his life, rising to become a leader in Congress. 

Don Imus

Source: AP Photo/Richard Drew

Don Imus

A long-time talk radio host well known for his outrageous remarks.  He basically insulted everyone left & right


examples noted at
Emmett Tyrrell, “Don Imus, Rip,” Townhall, January 2, 2020 https://townhall.com/columnists/emmetttyrrell/2020/01/02/don-imus-rip-n2558811

But what lead to his downfall was in 2007 when talking about the NCAA women's basketball championship game, he referred to Rutger's team as "nappy headed ho's". This ignited a major controversy intersecting both race and gender. Don Imus was fired and became a social outcast.

I blogged about the controversy back in 2007
https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2007/04/who-are-you-calling-ho.html

more on Imus

Lorraine Wheat, “Hollywood Sends Mixed Reactions On the Death of Don Imus,” Variety, December 27, 2019
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hollywood-sends-mixed-reactions-death-014754423.html

Gershon Kingsley

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Gershon Kingsley

Gerson Kingsley was an innovator of electronic music.


Kingsley spent his childhood as a Jewish refugee during WW2, going from Germany to Israel, Cuba and the United States.

In the 1960s, he was one of the early users of the new invention, the Moog synthesizer.   With it, he made one of the earliest electronic music hits "Baroque Hoedown" and "Popcorn".  This was years before Kraftwerk took electronic music to a whole other level! 

Kinglsey also composed movie scores, operas & more.

Kingsley died on December 2019 at the age of 97.


learn more at
Jon Pareles, “Gershon Kingsley, Master of Electronic Sounds, Dies at 97,” New York Times, December 15, 2019,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/obituaries/gershon-kingsley-dead.html/

Dick Dale

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Dick Dale

Dick Dale was a guitarist whose music was the soundtrack of many surf videos.  He used the musical influences of Lebanon (where his family was from) and applied it to his electric guitar to make an amazing sound. 

His most famous instrumental was Misirlou, a mainstay of surf rock that was later used in "Pulp Fiction" and sampled by the Black Eyed Peas "Pump It" and Lil Nas X & Cardi B's "Rodeo".

Dale died in March 2019 of kidney disease

Otis Hart and Anastasia Tsioulcas, “Dick Dale, Surf Guitar Legend, Dead at 81,” National Public Radio, March 18, 2019,
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/18/704329806/dick-dale-surf-guitar-legend-dead-at-81

Keith Flint

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Keith Flint

Keith Flint was the lead singer for the electronic music group The Prodigy (not to be confused with the deceased member of Mobb Deep). 

The group The Prodigy mixed electronic music with alternative rock to make an even crazier & wilder sound.

They hit their peak in 1997 with their hits "Firestarter" and "Breath" (the video for that song will gross you out with rats & roaches in an apartment). They also got major controversy over their song "Smack My B---- Up".

Keith Flint later had his own punk rock band Flint.

In March 2019, Keith Flint was found dead from hanging in his own home.

Otis Hart, “Keith Flint, Vocalist of the Prodigy, Dies at 49,” National Public Radio, March 4, 2019,
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/04/699974575/keith-flint-vocalist-of-techno-popularizers-the-prodigy-dead-at-49

Bushwick Bill

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Bushwick Bill

Bushwick Bill was a member of the Geto Boys, a Houston rap trio that were the pioneers in Southern reality rap who paved the way for future hitmakers like Master P, Three 6 Mafia, Trick Daddy & more.

In a rap world in which the big & strong usually get the most status, Bushwick Bill was very short, shorter than most rappers who call themselves "Lil". He was 3 feet 8 inches tall. 

Don't let his size fool you, the people who were around him will tell you crazy stories about him not being afraid of getting into fights.

Decades of drug use took its toll. It is believed his heavy drinking led to him dying of pancreatic cancer in June 2019

Sidney Madden, “Bushwick Bill, of Houston Rap Group Geto Boys, Dead at 52,” National Public Radio, June 10, 2019,
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/731076691/bushwick-bill-of-houston-rap-group-geto-boys-dead-at-52

Juice WRLD 

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JuiceWRLD

Jarad Anthony Higgins (aka Juice WRLD) was a rapper/singer who merged the influences of emo & reality rap, a combination that is popular among today's youth.

Juice WRLD first gained attention on the music sharing website Soundcloud and eventually gained mainstream popularity in 2018 with his major hit "Lucid Dreams", which sampled Sting's "Shape of My Heart". 

He also had some other hits the last 2 years like "Armed & Dangerous", "Hide", "Legends" (tribute to other emo rappers who died before him xxxTentacion & Lil Peep)  and a collabo w/Ellie Goulding "Hate Me".

Juice WRLD was only 21 when died of a drug-induced epileptic seizure at an airport on December 8, 2019

Anastasia Tsioulcas, “Rapper Juice Wrld Has Died at Age 21,” National Public Radio, December 8, 2019,  https://www.npr.org/2019/12/08/786064628/reports-rapper-juice-wrld-dead-at-age-21

response to an online chump who thinks I'm from somewhere else

Every  year around New Year's, local news media post articles on social media about the problems associated with fireworks, and a common response is 

• fireworks is a local tradition
• only "da haoles" want to get rid of fireworks.

Um, actually, the local regulations on fireworks are implemented by the state legislature and city council in which THE MAJORITY are locals of Non-European ancestries! 

You can't blame "The White Man" for everything!

I usually respond to those posts by reminding everyone that fireworks aren't really a local tradition because they didn't exist in Hawaii before Captain Cook.

here's a link to a comment thread I commented on

https://www.facebook.com/civilbeat/posts/2957805464252162

Joey Iaela thinks he had a classic response to me! He was wrong.

Here is what he said

Joey Iaela Pablo Wegesend Why are you in opposition, just curious, I did notice you moved here from the states. I took notice you know my daughter in-law [name deleted to protect an innocent bystander]. With no disrespect to anyone's.comment. I did respond to a lady, she moved here from the states and she complained to everyone. This is how we celebrate the New Year, year after year. We post our fireworks display for. FB friends, then we have people, that take up residency here, want to change our means and ways. Shoo go away!!! Or even better no comment on the post, go to City Hall and complain to them! This is my response to the negative comments you made about tradition. You kept contradicting our beliefs, and your point is..??? Have a good year!

Excuse me? You claim to have "noticed" that I "moved here from the states"   (note: this is code word for "you're from the continental US)

Really?

Because my parents sure didn't notice that I "moved here from the states".

Because I was born in Hawaii. Never lived anywhere else!

In other words, Joey Iaela stereotyped me!


I responded with a huge barrage of comments that Joey Iaela is too cowardly to acknowledge!


Here I go!

• Pablo Wegesend Joey Iaela I only lived in Hawaii, never lived anywhere else! Don't tell me where I'm from! And yes, some local people have different opinions from you! You have your right to express your opinion, I have my right to express my opinion!

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend Joey Iaela I'm curious, why did you assume I'm from somewhere else? Because of my name? Because I have the nerve to express an opinion different from you and your friends? You think everyone from here has to have the same opinion as you?

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend One more thing, Yes I know your daughter in law. I know she'll be laughing at you when she finds out you made the stereotypical assumption about me being from somewhere else!

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend But I guess some people just assume that everyone from a specific location is supposed to have the same perspective!

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend But the fact remains: fireworks is an imported activity, saying that is stating facts regardless of where you from!

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend I have real respect for real local traditions like hula, surfing, luaus and more. Nobody is taking that away from you!

  
  
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  Pablo Wegesend joey claims to have "noticed" that I "moved here from the states". In other words, Joey Iaela notices things that never happened. That's called hallucination!

Pablo Wegesend still no response from Joey Iaela! I know he read my responses, but has no decency to even apologize for stereotyping me and making false assumptions about where I'm from!

This 30-second video has WAY TOO MUCH reality for Joey Iaela to handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTwrsD4OSU





Joey Iaela, next time you want to sling mud at people, know your target! Otherwise, they'll sling it back at you harder than you'll ever believe!