Campus Wars Get More Coverage
Because of the fight at Radford High School between African American students (mostly children of military personell at Pearl Harbor & Hickam Air Force Base) and "local" students, the media is finally taking notice of violence at other Hawaii schools.
The Honolulu Star Bulletin mentioned that there have been violent incidents at Waianae, Nanakuli and Waipahu high schools
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/05/news/index1.html
They should've done this earlier. Violent incidents that occured at McKinley High School when I was there was IGNORED by the local papers. I even tried looking up on Google and Yahoo on fights involving Samoans, Vietnamese and Filipinos at McKinley. I found NOTHING, even that's what a lot of students have seen!
The local media spend too much time in the ivory tower, not giving a crap about incidents occuring in local high schools. Those incidents involve real people, involve real pain, involve real animosity!
The schools don't want bad light shed on them, due to a fear that all positive accomplishments at the schools would be ignored. But the schools must understand that we should see it's negatives and positives.
Sticking the heads in the sand has never made any problems go away!
Saturday, February 05, 2005
More on the Radford Incident & School Imagery
Yesterday, Radford High School students had a rally to show that not everything at the school is negative.
The negative image came about after last week's fight between African American students (most of them children of military personell at Pearl Harbor Naval Base/ Hickam Air Force Base) and "local" students. Racial slurs were exchanged as well as punches.
Radford students now say that most of its students aren't racist, and some of the African Americans there say that they get along with non-blacks as well.
To learn more check out
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/05/ln/ln15p.html
Of course, just because a negative incident happened, doesn't mean positive stuff doesn't happen at Radford High.
This reminds me of this time when I was about the go from Kawananakoa Middle School to McKinley High School. One of my then-friends was so chicken-shit about going to McKinley High due to the presence of gangs at the school. I kept telling that guy that my brother attended that school and nothing happened to him. That "friend" continued to whine and be scared.
All that "friend" knew about McKinley High were the gang incidents, the fight between Samoans and Vietnamese, and the presence of students from the notorious Central Middle School. He had no idea that McKinley High School also had a large presence of students who win math meets, science fairs and other intellectual affairs. McKinley has a large # of students who go on to elite universities.
But most middle school students about to enter high school don't care about that stuff. They only talk about violent incidents. That's why that "friend" was so chicken-shit about attending McKinely High School. Only after attending the school did he realize McKinley wasn't as violent as others have said it was!
Of course, neither could we put our hands in the sand and pretend ethnic violence is absent at McKinley High. IT'S NOT! Violent incidents between Samoans and Vietnamese, and Filipinos vs Vietnamese need serious analysis, something the local papers IGNORED!
However, Not all Vietnamese hate all Samoans, not all Samoans hate Vietnamese.
We must focus on both the negative and the positive. To do otherwise will only make things worse!
Yesterday, Radford High School students had a rally to show that not everything at the school is negative.
The negative image came about after last week's fight between African American students (most of them children of military personell at Pearl Harbor Naval Base/ Hickam Air Force Base) and "local" students. Racial slurs were exchanged as well as punches.
Radford students now say that most of its students aren't racist, and some of the African Americans there say that they get along with non-blacks as well.
To learn more check out
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/05/ln/ln15p.html
Of course, just because a negative incident happened, doesn't mean positive stuff doesn't happen at Radford High.
This reminds me of this time when I was about the go from Kawananakoa Middle School to McKinley High School. One of my then-friends was so chicken-shit about going to McKinley High due to the presence of gangs at the school. I kept telling that guy that my brother attended that school and nothing happened to him. That "friend" continued to whine and be scared.
All that "friend" knew about McKinley High were the gang incidents, the fight between Samoans and Vietnamese, and the presence of students from the notorious Central Middle School. He had no idea that McKinley High School also had a large presence of students who win math meets, science fairs and other intellectual affairs. McKinley has a large # of students who go on to elite universities.
But most middle school students about to enter high school don't care about that stuff. They only talk about violent incidents. That's why that "friend" was so chicken-shit about attending McKinely High School. Only after attending the school did he realize McKinley wasn't as violent as others have said it was!
Of course, neither could we put our hands in the sand and pretend ethnic violence is absent at McKinley High. IT'S NOT! Violent incidents between Samoans and Vietnamese, and Filipinos vs Vietnamese need serious analysis, something the local papers IGNORED!
However, Not all Vietnamese hate all Samoans, not all Samoans hate Vietnamese.
We must focus on both the negative and the positive. To do otherwise will only make things worse!
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Racial Incident at Radford High School
At Radford High School (near Pearl Harbor), there was a fight between African American students (most of them children of military personell) and "local" students! This has brought out allegations that too many in Hawaii ignore the racial tensions going on in the islands, as well as the trouble some African Americans go through in Hawaii.
You can read more about it at
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/03/ln/ln01p.html
Meanwhile, the media still hasn't addressed the tensions between immigrant Asians and Polynesians that I have addressed at
http://tinyurl.com/6oc56
I have sent a letter to the Honolulu Advertiser on race relations at Hawaii high schools, hopefully they'll print it. I'll let you know if they do.
At Radford High School (near Pearl Harbor), there was a fight between African American students (most of them children of military personell) and "local" students! This has brought out allegations that too many in Hawaii ignore the racial tensions going on in the islands, as well as the trouble some African Americans go through in Hawaii.
You can read more about it at
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/03/ln/ln01p.html
Meanwhile, the media still hasn't addressed the tensions between immigrant Asians and Polynesians that I have addressed at
http://tinyurl.com/6oc56
I have sent a letter to the Honolulu Advertiser on race relations at Hawaii high schools, hopefully they'll print it. I'll let you know if they do.
Monday, January 31, 2005
Iraqi Democracy
I congratulate Iraq for joining the group of nations with democracy. After all those years with Saddam Hussein, Iraqis finally got a chance to vote, with high turnout.
You can read more at
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006231
I congratulate Iraq for joining the group of nations with democracy. After all those years with Saddam Hussein, Iraqis finally got a chance to vote, with high turnout.
You can read more at
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006231
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