Came back home

Earlier today, I went to the Lanakila Health Center for a TB test.

Next door to Lanakila Health Center is Lanakila Housing (officially known as Puahala Homes, though Nobody calls it Puahala Homes). It was where I lived in my childhood years. It was a while since I last been there.

I decided to take a tour.

Since it was a weekday in the day-time, hardly anyone was outside. It was empty and quiet.

Everything inside looked so much smaller than I remembered. The sidewalks, stairs, gardens, everything was more narrower than I remembered. To a kid, they looked so big.

It was an interesting tour. It was a day I went back home.

Ethnic Relations in Hawaii - Revisited


A while back, I wrote on this blog about the local media not doing enough to expose the ethnic tensions between Polynesians, Micronesians and Asian immigrants.

Well, the Honolulu Advertiser had a story about a program that is attempting being Polynesians and Micronesians together. This was partly in reaction to a fight in Mayor Wright's Housing (MWH) last year between Micronesians and Polynesians

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Mar/09/ln/ln05p.html

Now ministers from the Micronesian and Polynesian community are trying to get the kids to learn about the culture.

In the end of the mentioned article, it mentions that a few Vietnamese kids are getting involved in the cultural exchanges.

I congratulate Honolulu Advertiser for sheddding some light.

Kealii Reichel Against Hawaiian Victimhood

In the recent Weekend edition of Midweek ( I know that sounds like an oxymoron) veteran Hawaiian musician Keali'i Reichel was quoted in telling film-maker Edgy Lee that he wouldn't want to participate in a film that portrays Native Hawaiians only as victims.

This is like what Bill Cosby has done for the African-American community. Cosby told African-American audiences to stop being victims. While other African-Americans have said the same thing, very few of them have the status like Bill Cosby has.

The same is going on within the Native Hawaiian community. Many within the Native Hawaiian community are sick of being portrayed as helpless victims. They're sick of being stereotyped as being militant radicals who can't get over 1893. However, some also fear being outcasted by their more militant relatives who might scream at them at their next family gathering.

Kealii Reichel said he is sick of the "poor me this, poor me that" attitude that he hears from other Native Hawaiians. I am glad that Reichel spoke up about this, especially in a forum read by non-native Hawaiians. This will get some non-native Hawaiians to stop stereotyping all Native Hawaiians as being helpless victims.

I wish there was web-link to this but unfortunately, there is none.

Edgy Lee convinced Reichel that she wasn't interested in making a victimhood film, that she wants to make a film on Native Hawaiian culture. The film will be aired on Hawaii television this coming Tuesday on KHON (Hawaii's FOX affiliate) at 9pm. Hopefully, I 'll remember that so I can watch it.

Thanks for Nothing UH Radical Lefties

Even more evidence that the Ward Churchill lovers at UH gave Hawaii a negative rep.

http://www.starbulletin.com/2005/03/04/editorial/indexletters.html

As residents of California who visits your island every year, we are greatly saddened that the University of Hawaii has opened its arms to University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Your university has chosen to offer a platform to a man who is pushing hate and division.

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Now UH has showered him with love, as shown on the television here in California, with leis and chants of agreement. It has truly put UH in a different light for us.

We have always looked forward to attending a football game every October when we stay in Oahu. We always proudly display our Warrior shirts. So proud of being University of Hawaii fans. Not anymore. We are now ashamed to wear them.

Esther and Carl Belknap
Thousand Oaks, Calif.

However, the Radical Lefty nutcases at UH-Manoa don't care about the negative consequences UH and Hawaii in general recieved from inviting Ward Churchill to speak. People in the mainland have the wrong impression that Hawaii loves Ward Churchill, not understanding that 1) it was mainland-bred lunatics that invited Churchill to UHM and 2) the culture of restraint that many local Asians grew up in has protected Churchill from a barrage of boos and fists many feel like giving him and 3) fear of assault from Hawaiian sovereignty fascists and their lefty allies that also protected Churchill from a barrage of boos and fists.

Unfortunately, the action of the mostly white mainland-bred UH Radical Lefty profs has given mainlanders the impression that the large presence of Asians and Polynesians has made Hawaii "anti-American" and inviting to Ward Churchill. Unfortunately the white mainland-bred profs dont care about how their actions will hurt the reputation of Asians and Polynesians.

Another letter to Star Bulletin

http://www.starbulletin.com/2005/03/04/editorial/indexletters.html

Several years ago, I was speaking with one of our UH instructors. When I asked what he taught, he responded, "I teach the backside of American history." When I inquired what he meant by that, he said he taught the ugly side of America, the problems in America and the terrible things this country has stood for. I was incensed.

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The support of Churchill by some on the UH faculty reveals not their valuing of free speech, but their hatred for America. If Churchill's rantings serve to expose the radical teachings espoused on our campus and to awaken the populace, then it will have been worth all the commotion.

Ron Arnold
Kaimuki

Why do profs insist that their jobs is to counter-balance Fox News anyways? That's not their job. Plus, for many working students, most of their info on current events comes NOT from Fox News, but from the Radical Lefty profs! So the profs are counter-balancing NOTHING! They're indoctrinating the students with anti-capitalist, anti-military, anti-American agenda

Activists: Get Your Priorities Straight -Dammit!

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith visited Harvard University and supposedly offended the LGBT community.

Did she say the words "fag", "queer" or "dyke"? No

Did she call homosexuality an "abomination" or a "sin"? No

So what did Pinkett say?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006369

Among the campus groups affiliated with the foundation is the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance, or BGLTSA, and it didn't like some of what it heard. A co-chair of the group, Jordan B. Woods, told Ms. Friedman that part of Ms. Pinkett Smith's speech was "extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable." In other words, Mr. Woods and others in BGLTSA explained, by focusing on a heterosexual relationship, Ms. Pinkett Smith took such a narrow view that some in the audience felt left out.

Talking only about heterosexual relationships is "homophobic"?

Smith has no obligation to talk about homosexual relationships. She is a heterosexual, so she'll talk about what she knows about! So why should gays and lesbians expect her to talk about homosexual relations? She probably doesn't know much about it, so why expect her to talk about it?

Matthew Shepard wasn't killed by an actress talking only about heterosexual relationships!

People get assaulted and murdered over their perceived sexual orientation. A heterosexual man in Boise was viciously assaulted because one man in a bar mistaken him for being gay. (I heard about this in a video shown in a sociology class)

That is what gay-rights activists should be addressing. They shouldn't waste time over an actress not mentioning gay relationships in her speech.

What next - should I be offended if a man from Laos didn't mention a word about Mexican culture in his speech? No, I should be happy to learn about what's going on in Laos.

Truth about 9/11 Victims Churchill Doesn't Want You to Think About

Andrew Walden has said something about the investors killed in the 9/11 attacks that hasn't been said but should be said. Meanwhile, while Al-Quaida lover Ward Churchill insulted them.


Here are Walden's tribute to the investors murdered on 9/11

http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/28/4222b56d5f9f8?in_archive=1

Ward Churchill is wrong. Filthy-rich American financiers are not "little Eichmanns," but revolutionaries. We are freeing the world from the poverty and depredation created by socialism, feudalism, tribalism and dictatorship. By building and financing sweatshops, genetically modified agriculture and free trade, rich American bankers, stock traders and CEOs are giving billions of people the opportunity to earn cash wages for the first time in their lives or the lives of their ancestors.

Al-Qaeda and the anti-globalization Churchill left our counter revolutionaries against this Second Industrial Revolution, which has drawn absolute poverty down from 40 percent of the world's people to 21 percent in 20 years, according to a recent U.N. report on world poverty. It is Churchill and his comrades whose anti-development campaigns exacerbate the high infant-mortality rates that come from underdevelopment. It is they whose acts "translate into the rotting corpses of infants."

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.