Dog Chapman, the bounty hunter of European-American ancestry, had a problem with his son dating an African-American woman.
This is what he said
http://starbulletin.com/2007/11/01/news/story01.html
Chapman: Don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever. It's not 'cause she's black. It's because we use the word "n_____" sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life by losing everything I've worked for for 30 years for some f____ n_____ heard us say "n_____" and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine -- our career is over. I'm not taking that chance at all, never in life, never. Never. ... If Lyssa was dating a n_____, we would all say f___ you. And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ... It's not that they're black. It's none of that. It's that we use the word "n____." We don't mean "you f___ scum n_____ without a soul." We don't mean that s___, but America would think we're meaning that. And we're not taking a chance and losing everything we've got over a racial slur. Because our son goes with a girl like that, I can't do that, Tucker, you can't expect Garry, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids ... 'cause I'm in love for seven months, I ... f___ that. ... So I'll help you get another job, but you cannot work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that s___. I've got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I've got that girl saying she's going to wear a recorder. ...
Dog Chapman needs to be a mature adult already! He should've stop saying the word n----- a long time ago!
And anyone who is against any inter-racial dating is NOT a mature person!
People say "this is just a private conversation". I say "Anything you say CAN and WILL be used against you".
This incident is a reminder to all of us to be mature in everything we say AT ALL TIMES! If you still use racist words in private conversations, you better stop NOW because others will eventually find out! NOTHING is secret anymore!
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This is what Charles Memminger said about Chapman's racist rants.
http://starbulletin.com/2007/11/04/features/memminger.html
"We use the word n---- here," Chapman says on the tape. The "we" part is rather alarming. Like it's just part of a day in the life with the Chapmans: "We do the laundry. We eat lunch. We use the word n----. We vacuum." He tells his son on the tape he doesn't want to see the fact that "we" use that word end up in the Enquirer and then see his career go down the toilet. The I-word -- irony -- doesn't quite capture the fact that that is exactly what is happening.
Cathy Wi said the following idiotic statements
http://starbulletin.com/2007/11/11/editorial/letters.html (scroll to 3rd letter from the top)
I am so sick and tired of how thin-skinned this world has become! So "Dog" Chapman made those remarks. So what? He was in the privacy of his own home. How is this any different from using slurs for any other ethnic group? It seems that whenever the N-word is spoken, we are suppose to cringe and say, "Shame on you racist," yet it's OK to call everyone else names. No, I don't buy that. Why should Dog apologize? Apologize to whom? He's being treated too harshly. There are far worse things one could do.
Cathy Wi
Honolulu
Anytime I hear crap like that, I know that person is a hardcore racist! Cathy Wi is using coded words to express "how dare black people ask for respect".
I'm assuming from her last name that Wi is an Asian person. It's easy for Cathy Wi complain about others being "thin-skinned" because she's in a mostly Asian-American environment. She takes her majority status for granted!
If Cathy Wi is that insensitive towards African-Americans, then I wonder how she feels about Polynesians, Micronesians, Arabs, Mexicans, Russians, etc?
If Cathy Wi was growing up in communities in which Asians were less than 1% of the population, she would be mocked endlessly. People would tell her to "go back to China". They would go up to her face and yell at her in a fake Asian accent. They would call her "slant eyes", "chow fun" and other racist insults! This would happen EVERYDAY! I wonder how thick-skinned will she be then!
2) Even with all the controversies of Dog Chapman's statements, the brutal beating of a European-American couple in Waikele, and the murder of a European-American student in Nanakuli earlier this year, I still thought the most under-reported racial story in Hawaii was the persecution of immigrants.
When a European-American or African-American faces discrimination, they know how to contact the media or sympathetic organizations. However, when an immigrant from Micronesia or Asia faces discrimination, they are reluctant to speak to anyone due to a language barrier. So it gets under-reported!
However, recent articles in the Star Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser reported on this issue!
The following article report on the return of gang warfare in Hawaii.
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/28/news/story01.html
State law enforcement, education and human service officials say they offer enough services to stop children from entering gangs, disband current groups and avoid chaos. Although public school fights are up, officials argue they are not as violent or as frequent as in the late 1980s and early '90s.
Deborah Spencer-Chun, who heads Adult Friends for Youth, said employees build relationships with gang leaders to learn about brewing fights. But, she said, they are increasingly unable to answer campus disturbances on time.
"Sometimes it takes a real crisis before anybody responds to it," she said. "People don't want to believe there are gangs in those neighborhoods just like people don't want to say there are gangs in Hawaii. This is paradise, this is where most of our economy comes from tourism."
The following day, the Star Bulletin had another article on the gang issue. This articles mentions more about the alienation some immigrant teens feel in Hawaii schools.
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/29/news/story01.html
Neglected by parents who work multiple jobs, students from poor families often join gangs because they feel inferior and see no future in education, said Sid Rosen, who retired this year as head of Adult Friends for Youth, a nonprofit that works with gangs in Hawaii. Gangs are formed along ethnic lines but also by students who share housing projects or street blocks, he said.
"They are living essentially in what is an urban ghetto. If you live in Kalihi, you see yourself as being different than someone who lives in Hawaii Kai," Rosen explained. "The rich haoles live in Hawaii Kai and Kahala, and us poor Filipinos live in Kalihi and us poor Samoans live in Kuhio Park Terrace. ... These boundaries get established."
In the past four years, the Susannah Wesley center has seen about 200 student dropouts, most of them immigrants from outlying islands of Micronesia, the Philippines, Samoa or Tonga, said Stanley Inkyo, the center's youth services administrator.
Families bring their children to Hawaii for a better education, but many parents get stuck with low-paying jobs or end up living in the street and unable to help their kids adjust to the new school setting, Inkyo said.
Aggravating the issue is an influx of Micronesian students in Hawaii's public schools which has nearly doubled in the past five years to 2,558, according to the state Department of Education. The department held a conference for 1,000 educators during the summer to help teachers understand and work better with those students.
"One of the things you'll notice here, and I don't think anybody wants to say it publicly, there's a lot of the racial differences, or the ethnic differences that tend to magnify" the gang issue, Inkyo said, saying Filipino students often clash with those from Micronesia. "There's that kind of uneasiness."
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I once mentioned that the most under-reported issue in Hawaii was the conflict between Asian immigrants (many from China, Vietnam and Phillipines) and Polynesians. Since then, I've noticed that Micronesians were having conflicts with Polynesians and Asians.
The Honolulu Advertiser had an article about Micronesians facing discrimination when looking for a place to live
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Nov/12/ln/hawaii711120352.html
They say blatant as well as subtle housing discrimination against new Micronesian immigrants and longtime residents alike continues to go largely unchecked. They also say it goes largely unreported because of fears about coming forward, language barriers and a lack of services to address the need."
It seems to be getting worse," added Maria Narruhn, a founding member of Micronesians United, which has been trying to address housing discrimination, but whose resources are limited.
Narruhn said she knows 10 families who have been turned away from rentals on the market in the last year, and were likely discriminated against. Some of the cases involved the landlord actually saying Micronesians weren't welcome.
She believes two of her own family members were also victims of housing discrimination, including her son-in-law, who inquired about a one-bedroom for $995 and was told, when he looked at the unit, that the rent had jumped to $1,020.
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The first lawsuit Kokua Legal Services filed as part of the project involved a landlord, who was advertising a two-bedroom unit in 'Aiea. According to court documents, a Micronesian tester at Kokua Legal Services called the 'Aiea landlord to inquire about the apartment and was told it was not available. The landlord also told the caller that he had no other units available, the documents allege.
Fifteen minutes later, a Caucasian tester at Kokua Legal Service called the landlord to inquire about the apartment and was told it was available. The landlord also allegedly told the tester he had other rentals that were empty.
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Kokua Legal Services filed its second lawsuit as part of the project in September, alleging that two landlords who were renting a North King Street unit for $2,000 a month discriminated against a Micronesian tester, then offered the unit to a Caucasian caller.
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BUSTED! Those landlords need to be publicly humiliated! Those landlords need to grow up, start being more mature, learn to accept diversity, modernity & globalization!
