RACIST POLITICIAN FIGHTS "B.O." ON BUSES

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HONOLULU CITY COUNCILMAN ROD TAM SMELLS, SOMETHING AWFUL

BUT HE'S TRYING TO FIX THE PROBLEM

Is He Promising Not To Ride Da Bus?

This is the guy who used the term "wetbacks" in a public meeting not too long ago. His new racist offensive is targeted at foreigners whose hygiene standards may be different, or at the poor whose access to bathrooms is limited --In part by lax planning, zoning, building and housing codes and a lack of affordable housing and public facilities. Tam's our Zoning Committee Chairman, by the way, so he's responsible for a lot of that. But it's so much easier to target the disenfranchised and humiliate & punish them than it is to offer real solutions that are already available elsewhere and to people with money right here in Honolulu.

The fact that Tam has already established himself as a race-warrior with his attacks on "wetbacks" makes this new measure smell pretty bad in itself. The homeless population and immigration from global-warming and economic depression victims throughout the Asia-Pacific region keep growing, putting some less recent immigrants' and forgetful long-time Locals' noses out of joint, "Aloha" be damned. Da Bus is one of the few places where the old and the new, the poor and the middle classes come into contact. Maybe now is the time those living in comfort paid attention to the problems of the system that has benefited them so much more than others.

The solution to the unpleasant realities of poverty and disenfranchisement is not the typical conservative one of punishing the victims by criminalizing poverty, but the more liberal approach of helping people to help themselves. More affordable housing, more living-wage jobs, more public facilities for health and hygiene are a better and, in the long run, cheaper and more workable solution than locking immigrants up for smelling different, or fining homeless people for having no access to bathrooms. If you think the buses smell bad, wait till you smell the jails, the courtrooms and the prisons. But, if you're middle class, you probably never will smell them. Auwe, brah, dey steenk, ho!


HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Tam sorry for saying ‘wetbacks‘"
Note how Tam harps on his own ethnicity, Chinese, as if that somehow makes it OK to disparage others. Typical Hawaii BS. So is his comparison of "liberal" [?] Hawaii with the evil haole [white] Mainland.

' On May 13, Tam's Council Zoning Committee discussed the planned University of Hawaii-West Oahu campus in Kapolei. Tam warned the developers that labor unions are saying "that they (the developers' workers) have to be skilled, licensed workers. We don't want any, uh, wetbacks, basically." The Council's Zoning Committee, of which Tam serves as chairman, discussed development plans for UH-West Oahu on May 13 when Tam warned the developers to have better communication with labor unions. "The concern from (labor unions) is basically that they (the developers' workers) have to be skilled, licensed workers. We don't want any, uh, wetbacks, basically," Tam said. "OK. We've been receiving (reports about) developers or contractors been bringing in wetbacks from New Mexico. Uh, Mexico. I'm sorry. Mexico. OK. Illegal aliens. And that's a problem here, basically. We don't want that type. We want safety building here." "Over here in Hawaii, we're so liberal," Tam told the Star-Bulletin. "We have multiethnic cultures. We don't think in the same terms of the mainland. People look at it different. I learned something, and I apologize if I offended anybody." Tam said he first learned of the offending term through a 1950s musical called "Flower Drum Song," about Chinese illegal immigrants. From this musical, Tam said he thought the term referred to illegal immigrants. "People interpret it differently now," Tam said. "It's a terminology used in the past." '

CBS NEWS KGMB-TV9 HONOLULU: VIDEO
"City Council Member Apologizes For Racial Remarks"
He's sorry "if" he said anything that was "politically incorrect," he says with a sneer. This is the guy who zones your neighborhoods, Honolulu.

' Hispanic community leaders say they've been flooded with calls from people in Hawaii and on the mainland outraged by the remark. Tam recently apologized but not everyone was satisfied. Some want him to step down as chair of the zoning committee and meet with members of the Hispanic community. '

THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Bill targets pungent riders of Honolulu's transit system"
Would this cover Chinese immigrants too, Mr. Tam? Or just homeless Chinese?

' Councilman Rod Tam, a co-sponsor of the bill, explained why it is needed: "As we become more inundated with people from all over the world, their way of taking care of their health is different. Some people, quite frankly, do not take a bath every day and therefore they may be offensive in terms of their odor." '

ABC NEWS KITV-TV4 HONOLULU: VIDEO
"Council Considers BO Ban"
Heath Fascism: Six months in prison for not taking a shower? What about "offensive" odors from soaps, perfumes, colognes, "body sprays," and deodorants? Or garlic ahi, kimchee poke, or sweet balut? Will the police board buses with sniffer dogs? Or do they detect B.O. with their own snouts? Nosy people want to know!

' Honolulu City Council members are considering a proposal to ban riders from buses if their body odor is too stinky. Councilman Rod Tam and Councilman Nestor Garcia introduced the bill to regulate a number of dangerous or annoying behaviors on city buses including bad B.O. Under the bill, police could cite riders if their body odor annoyed others and a convicted offender could face up to $500 in fines or six months in prison. Tam said he's received complaints about bus B.O. "People are very concerned they don't want to get sick when they experience body odor... offensive body odor they identify it with germs, diseases," said Tam. '

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HATE IN THE ALOHA STATE

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AN ANNIVERSARY OF RACISM & "REVERSE-RACISM"

YOUTUBE: BROTHER NOLAND
"MR. SAN CHO LEE"
A musical compendium of Hawaii racism. A very popular song here in Honolulu. Prejudice sells.


RACISM IS RACISM, NO MATTER THE SOURCE, NO MATTER THE EXCUSE

Hawaii's Hypocritical Stance On Racial Violence

On the fiftieth anniversary of Hawaii's accession to Statehood, there were no official celebrations. It was feared that there would be violence, as there has been in the past. The fact that the perpetrators are a tiny and well-known minority of a minority has not led to any action by local law enforcement. This in itself is an indictment of the entire State: Deliberate official ignorance, avoidance and denial of frequent hate crimes is as bad or worse than the crimes themselves.

The centralized State school system tolerates and even allows the promotion of an annual "Kill Haole Day," when white students, "haole's," are physically and verbally attacked right inside of the public schools. Black students, or "popolo's," have also been subject to racial attacks, even including a school-sponsored and managed yearbook that featured pictures of black students with racist defacements and captions. The yearbook was edited & published by the school authorities with the racist material included. This has happened at least three times in the last ten years alone.

The fact that the State has been run almost exclusively by a local Japanese elite (who are in effect a minority within the largest minority in a population consisting entirely of minorities) for over fifty years now does nothing to ameliorate or share the collective guilt foisted upon innocent Caucasian children and adults for wrongs done, and continuing to be done, against the Native Hawaiian population. The exclusionary local elite Japanese-run State government has engineered programs since 1959 which have increasingly marginalized and hurt the health and well-being of Native Hawaiians, even as local elite Japanese politicians pander to "Local" hate-groups by blaming everything, including their own actions, on "da fahkin' howlees." Using whites as scapegoats helps to turn the attention away from the dominant local elite Japanese politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen & women and their deliberate and racist acts against the Native Hawaiians as well as "haole's" and others.

As long as Caucasians can be blamed for every problem, the local Japanese elite and their toadies in business & government can go on lining their own pockets at the expense of everyone else. As long as racism is the predominant political force here in the "Aloha State," nothing will ever change, and the problems of all the people of Hawaii, including "Locals" (local self-description of local but not Hawaiian non-white & [mainly] non-Asians) as well as Native Hawaiians.

The anemic local Republican Party and their owners & operators on the Mainland have tried to import their traditional conservative tactics of racial divide and conquer to Hawaii. The result has been a net loss for the Republicans, and a ratcheting-up of "Local" anti-white racism. The historical memory of the Overthrow, the Republic, the Annexation, the Territory, the white Ascendancy and Statehood, all Republican-engineered, will never dim as long as corporate racist Republicans from the Mainland continue trying to use Hawaii to fan flames of racial hatred and disharmony everywhere.

The despicable acts of the Republicans do not, however, excuse Hawaii's own racists. Divide and conquer along racial lines may have worked well for the local Democrats, but it is hurting the State in the long run. With an education system on a par with that of Mississippi, and a poverty-driven healthcare crisis that hits brown-skinned people hardest, only by uniting all ethnic groups can our reverse-Dixiecrats ever manage to lift Hawaii out of its' plantation-days cultural and economic slums.


SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: INTELLIGENCE REPORT
"Prejudice in Paradise: Hawaii Has a Racism Problem"
You'll never hear this here. It could get you lynched.

' With no known hate groups and a much-trumpeted spirit of aloha or tolerance, few people outside Hawaii realize the state has a racism issue. One reason: The tourism-dependent state barely acknowledges hate crimes. That makes it hard to know how often racial violence is directed at Caucasians, who comprise about 25% of the ethnically diverse state's 1.3 million residents. Those who identify themselves as Native Hawaiian — most residents are of mixed race — account for nearly 20%. Hawaii has collected hate crimes data since 2002 (most states began doing so a decade earlier). In the first six years, the state reported only 12 hate crimes, and half of those were in 2006. (All other things being equal, the state would be expected to have more than 800 such crimes annually, given the size of its population, according to a federal government study of hate crimes.) There was anti-white bias in eight of those incidents. But that doesn't begin to reflect the extent of racial rancor directed at non-Native Hawaiians in the Aloha State, especially in schools. "Here in Hawaii, there is no compulsion to speak out on racist attacks. There are all these hate crimes and violent things happening to white people and you don't hear sovereignty activists speaking out against it," says Conklin, who manages a massive website on Hawaiian issues. "The violence has been going on for years and it's always been hush-hush." '

USA TODAY
"Racial tensions are simmering in Hawaii's melting pot"
The world knows what Hawaii will not acknowledge.

' The current controversies are exposing racial tensions below the surface of a tropical paradise that Gov. Linda Lingle says is "a model for the world" in diversity and peaceful integration. Simmering divisions pit Hawaiians against other groups, and "locals" of all races against newcomers including immigrants and military members. At issue now is whether Hawaii will acknowledge and overcome these threats to its friendly reputation. Racial troubles in the islands usually don't get much public discussion. In a tourism-dependent state, talk about tensions is "like news about shark attacks," says Jon Van Dyke, a University of Hawaii law professor. "People are afraid they might lose customers." '

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Isles shape Obama’s racial identity "
It's even hard out here for a POTUS.

' White added in an e-mail interview that despite whatever "hapa street cred" Obama has in Hawaii, it doesn't displace the prejudice blacks find here. "Being of African descent is not valued in the same way that other ethnic backgrounds are valued here. In spite of the many positive aspects of multiethnic, multiracial and multicultural interaction in Hawaii, we still have to realize ... that being black continues to be negatively perceived in Hawaii," White said. In a 1999 essay written for Punahou's school alumni magazine, Obama recalls how his first perceptions of Hawaii as being "the world's mythical melting pot" changed that by the time he graduated from Punahou, his consciousness of race was much sharper. "As an African American teenager in a school with few African Americans, I probably questioned my identify a bit harder than most," Obama wrote. "As a kid from a broken home and family of relatively modest means, I nursed more resentments than my circumstances justified and didn't always channel those resentments in particularly constructive ways." '

HONOLULU STAR BULLETIN
"Waianae High recalls yearbooks containing racial slur"
Once is an accident. Three times is a policy.

' Hundreds of Waianae High School yearbooks are being recalled to replace a page with a photograph of what school officials call a "racially offensive" word spelled out in cards held by five students in the senior class on football field bleachers. The photograph, with the racial N-word slur, was overlooked during a review of the publication, state education officials said. State education spokeswoman Sandra Goya said the recall because of a racially insensitive photograph was a first at Waianae High, but similar problems have occurred at a couple of other public schools. Stickers were placed over a racially offensive caption in a yearbook at Kalaheo High School in 1997 and a racially offensive photograph at Castle High School in 1998, Goya said. '

FOX NEWS
"Hawaii Served as Melting Pot, Source of Racial Tension for Young Obama"
This was not at a public school This was at an "elite" private school here in Honolulu. This is the place that schools our elite. Is it any wonder that they have a problem coming to terms with racism, especially their own?

' Obama's experience in Hawaii is echoed by other blacks, including some of his schoolmates, and challenges the state's vaunted image of racial harmony. "A big joke amongst the brothers was you could be anything else but a brother and have free rein of the world in Hawaii," said Rik Smith, a black former schoolmate of Obama's at Punahou, an elite private school in Honolulu. "When it comes to people of color, black people, there's a huge amount of racism." In his memoir, "Dreams from My Father," Obama, who is half black and half white, recalled a seventh grader calling him a "coon" and a tennis pro who joked that his color might rub off. One person wanted to touch his hair, and he was asked whether his father, a native of Kenya, ate people. An assistant basketball coach used a racial epithet in referring to black players. '

HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Hate crime not ruled out in Waikele assault"
Racism is so pervasive here that even prosecutors can't recognize an obvious hate crime. Especially not when they have political ambitions that require "Local" support. Carlisle is now running for Mayor of Honolulu.

' As debate continued over the assault on an Army couple in the parking lot of a Waikele shopping center, city Prosecutor Peter Carlisle yesterday said he had not ruled out handling the case as a hate crime. The assault remains under investigation, and the charges are up for evaluation, Carlisle said. Carlisle met with Andrew Dussell, a 26-year-old soldier, and his wife after they were allegedly beaten in the parking lot of the shopping center Feb. 19. The pair asked that their privacy be respected, and Andrew Dussell is under orders from the Army not to speak out about the case, Carlisle said. Both Andrew Dussell, who has served two tours of duty in Iraq, and his wife, Dawn Dussell, a 23-year-old nursing student at Hawai'i Pacific University, suffered broken noses, concussions and facial fractures. A police affidavit filed in court said the attack occurred after the Dussells' car collided with a vehicle while trying to pull into a parking stall. Gerald D. Paakaula, 44, and his son were arrested in connection with the assault. The father has been charged with second-degree assault; the son's case is being handled by the Family Court in confidential proceedings. The affidavit said the son was "extremely angry that his vehicle had been struck." "He began yelling obscenities toward Andrew Dussell, calling him a 'f------ haole' while kicking his driver side door," the document said. Paakaula was released after posting $20,000 bail. The police affidavit did not allege that he made any racial remarks. Much of the public debate was touched off by comments from two University of Hawai'i at Manoa professors. Jonathan Okamura, an ethnic studies professor, said he believed the alleged beating occurred or escalated as a result of racial considerations, based on the uttering of the phrase "f------ haole." But Jonathan Osorio, chairman of the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, said the case should not be classified as a hate crime and that Hawaiians should not be painted with a broad brush as a result of the incident. UH professors contacted yesterday said that while many residents see Hawai'i as a land of aloha, racial tension does exist. Many wondered if the public outcry would have been greater if a Hawaiian couple had been beaten by Caucasians, and suggested that such a circumstance would more likely have resulted in prosecutors charging the attackers with a hate crime. Carlisle said in response that race is relevant to an assault case only if it can be proven that a person selected a victim based on that person's race. '

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GHOSTS OF A NATION

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HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTISTS MOURN STATEHOOD

Old Territorial Office Building, Honolulu, Hawaii

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX YEARS AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM,
HAWAII MARKS THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF STATEHOOD

Statehood protest at the Kamehameha Statue 8/21/09 ["Hawaii Five-O" HQ]

US Customs House, closed for Admissions Day

The Spirits Of Ancient Polynesia Were Abroad Tonight In Old Honolulu

While most people of Hawaiian ancestry today may not wish to renounce their citizenship in the United States of America, not many Local people celebrated Hawaii's golden anniversary of Statehood either, this week in Hawaii. Admissions Day is a State holiday but it is usually marked only by a few US flag-waving right-wing haole's, a perfunctory official press release, and varying degrees of drama from some of the wackier splinters of the tiny sovereignty community. This year, there were actual dramas at the Iolani Palace, former prison, never home, to the last Hawaiian monarch, Queen Liliuokalani, composer of the unofficial anthem, "Aloha Oe."

Hawaiian "Ghosts" at the Old Fort

Instead of a violent take-over of the Palace, like last year, or a racist rumble on the Iolani grounds like two years before, historical dramas were staged by activists today at the downtown Honolulu site. Men and women in period clothing, circa 1890, narrated, spieled and re-enacted scenes from the last days of the fledgling Kingdom, a British creation less than a hundred years old at the time of the Overthrow. The only drama was the play-acting, and there were no disturbances this year. A small crowd of mixed ethnicity listened respectfully to each set-piece as the Sun gradually fell in the West and the Moon rose in the East.

The Tomb Of King Lunalillo, Kawaiahao Churchyard


These pictures were taken at the event. There did seem a ghostly presence, which we tried to document. We are all, in a very real sense, living on the ruins of another civilization, surrounded every day by the spirits of a doomed race. And we're the ones who doomed them.

Iolani, the Royal Palace, in mourning.





HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Iolani Palace to remain quiet as Hawaii observes 50th"
This was a quiet year at the Palace.

' Sandra Reyes strolled across the empty grounds of 'Iolani Palace this week and fully understood why state officials are not marking 50 years of Hawai'i statehood today with any kind of celebration. "I can see why they would be afraid," said Reyes, who lives in Makaha. "You have to understand the history of Hawai'i." Some Native Hawaiian groups asked that 'Iolani Palace — the seat of Hawaiian royalty and the center of Hawai'i's statehood celebration 50 years ago — be draped in black today as a way to mark the continuing struggles of Native Hawaiians, said Kippen de Alba Chu, executive director of 'Iolani Palace and chairman of the Statehood Commission charged with commemorating 50 years of Island statehood. Outside the palace grounds, the commission has helped organize educational walking tours of the sites of historic events in Island history, as well as a conference to discuss what Hawai'i could look like 50 years in the future. Palace officials and state sheriff's deputies, however, are prepared for the possibility of protests around 'Iolani Palace today and — perhaps — yet another attempt to occupy the palace grounds, as groups have done in the past. But the only official event scheduled today at 'Iolani Palace is not even considered part of Hawai'i's statehood commemoration. Eighteen chanters each will offer an oli, or chant, intended as a gift to Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawai'i's last reigning monarch who was exiled to her palace bedroom following the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom. '

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN
"Palace takeover"
Last Admissions Day, 2008, clownish thugs disgraced the sovereignty movement, disrespected Hawaiian history, culture & customs.

' A native Hawaiian sovereignty group briefly took control of the grounds of Iolani Palace last night, leading to the arrest of at least 22 protesters. Palace officials closed the historic site "until further notice" to assess any possible damage. About 25 members of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation, with its self-proclaimed king Akahi Nui, began locking the gates at about 5:30 p.m. One palace employee was allegedly assaulted at the palace gates. The takeover occurred on the Statehood Day holiday, which commemorates Hawaii becoming a state. It was the second time since late April that a Hawaiian sovereignty group took over the grounds of the historic site. '

HAWAII REPORTER
"Children Threatened by Anti-American Protestors at Hawaii's Statehood Celebration"
August, 2006: Here's the other nuts' take on this, an actual & notorious incident, but provoked by a racist clique of politically-motivated Mainland-funded professional white Republican aggrievants, three years ago. No excuse for the crackheads' behavior, nor for the lack of police protection.

' However, 47 years later on the day the state observes “Admissions Day” with a state and county holiday, there was a very different scene at Iolani Palace. There was complete lawlessness wielded by a pack of snarling gangsters who called themselves native Hawaiian protestors. They ranted irrationally about their hatred toward America and its citizens. State Sen. Sam Slom, a Republican who also heads the small business advocacy group, Small Business Hawaii, organized a 47th annual statehood celebration at the Iolani Palace grounds and invited everyone in the state to participate. He remembers the time before the Capitol was built that legislative business was conducted at Iolani Palace, so for historical accuracy, he planned to hold celebration there. Slom and other attendees said they were excited because this was the first celebration in 6 years - and the last statehood event was held in California because then Gov. Benjamin Cayetano said it was "too controversial to celebrate statehood at home." On Friday, the day statehood was observed, Slom welcomed a group of about 50 people who arrived with big smiles, American flags and plans to enjoy music by the Kalani High School Band, who were recruited to play its favorite songs. But instead of a warm welcome, the patriots were greeted by a gang of about 50 hostile protestors with bullhorns, a state-of-the-art sound system, and preprinted signs protesting the statehood celebration. They claimed to represent the feelings of an estimated 400,000 native Hawaiians throughout Hawaii and the world. These hoodlums shouted profanities in front of young children, spit and yelled at those there to observe statehood, and said they wanted to "wipe their ass" with the American Flag. One protestor screamed at a military family that it was a really good that Americans died in the 9-11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers because Americans deserved to be "slammed down." All who spoke on the bullhorns said Americans - even the native Hawaiian people who showed up to celebrate statehood - should get off "their land" and out of Hawaii. One of the rabid-eyed leaders of the pack shouted profanities directly in people‚s ears. He pushed women, children and senior citizens. He spit on people. He bit the American flags people carried, and tried to tear them. He took down his pants and told people to suck him. In front of their children, he called women "bitches" and told them to "show him their tits." He even bragged about being high on crystal math, and said he could do whatever he wanted because he belongs to the "kingdom of Hawaii," not America. Threats of Physical Violence, Verbal Attacks, Targets Kids First: The protesters first attacked the weakest people - in this case the children - so they could break apart the groups and scare them into leaving. The belligerent group began their protest by shouting threats of violence at the young band members who were sitting quietly waiting for the go-ahead from their bandleader to play. They told them and their parents that they would be in danger if they played even one note. “We cannot guarantee your safety unless you put down your instruments and leave the premises immediately,” one protestor shouted from a microphone, feet away from the kids sitting with their instruments in hand. The berating continued for 15 minutes until the bandleader and frightened parents led the kids to the bus that their senator had rented for the occasion. As the kids left, the protestors said that they were victorious, and would be taking back Hawaii from America. State Law Enforcement Never Showed, Despite Lawlessness: As the remaining 50 people there to celebrate statehood stood in a circle and sang the National Anthem and Hawaii Pono I, the protestors interrupted them, yelling, cursing and threatening to burn the American flags. Threats were also made against other citizens including Senator Slom and State Rep. Barbara Marumoto, who enthusiastically arrived at the celebration dressed as “Lady Liberty”, freedom torch in hand. Surprisingly, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, based just across the streetl, did not send its officers to intervene during the hour-long event. Some of the "unlawful events" included threatening children, parents, elected officials, and innocent civilians. Immoral “flashing” in front of women and children, demonstrating and using sound systems without a permit. They even rode a motorcycle up to the palace steps - off-limits to automobiles and motorcycles. '

THE MAUI NEWS
"The effects of statehood differ among Hawaiians"
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to! 2009 on Maui.

' As Hawaii observes a half century of statehood Friday, some Maui County Native Hawaiian activists remained steadfast that the achievement only cemented the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. It is an irritating reminder, they say, that statehood further fortified existing government- and business-created ramparts against native sovereignty. With statehood, Native Hawaiians lost property ownership rights as well as native control of natural resources, such as unfettered access to shorelines, fishing and hunting, and fresh water. In their view, the 50th state had already been transformed by pineapple and sugar plantations and later became an overwhelmed and kitschy tourist mecca. To many other Native Hawaiians, the timing of statehood's 50th anniversary is impeccable. After a decade of toil, this very likely could be the year a bill before Congress by U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka establishing sovereignty - in some form - will become a reality. Hawaii-born President Barack Obama has said he'd support the Akaka Bill, which would give Native Hawaiians self-determination rights similar to those possessed by Native American and Alaskan tribes. Sovereignty would not be possible without statehood, said retired 2nd Circuit Judge and Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Boyd Mossman. "Our people generally have turned off to society. They're with drugs, the education is the worst, their standards of living are the worst. They make up all the social ills of Hawaii," he said. "You gotta ask yourself, 'What good did statehood do for the Native Hawaiians?' Although, some have assimilated into Western Hawaii, lost their Hawaiianness and become coconuts - dark on the outside and white on the inside." To many, statehood allowed mostly Mainland white and foreign business interests to exploit the native culture over the past 50 years, providing a luau of profits for themselves while Native Hawaiians were left, often literally, with the leftovers. The Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown in 1893 when a group of white businessmen forced Queen Lili'uokalani to abdicate her throne. Meanwhile, U.S. Marines came ashore. Until Congress declared it a U.S. territory in 1898, Hawaii was a republic, a political status many activists would like to see reinstated. '

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50th STATE'S 50th BIRTHDAY

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HAWAII AFTER HALF A CENTURY

THE ALOHA STATE HAS GROWN & SHRUNK

Over A Million People Now Inhabit This Pricey Polynesian Paradise

Today the foreign country which produced the fake birth certificate for our first alien President celebrates the 50th anniversary of its' illegal Admission to the Union. The archipelago of Hawaii, the northernmost Polynesian islands, where white people are regarded as a tasty snack, became our fiftieth State in 1959. The Isles were once attacked by the Japanese, who later decided to buy them. Many Americans died defending these islands, but none of them were Republicans. Therefore, Barack Hussein Obama is black.


YOUTUBE: UNIVERSAL NEWSREELS
"Aloha Hawaii! Statehood Celebrated 1959/03/16"
Dah way we was, braddahs and titas.



YOUTUBE: CARL DUDLEY
"Hawaii, The Island State, 1959"
Another blast from the past.



YOUTUBE: THE NEWS MAGAZINE
"Hawaii, 1952"
News from the Territory.



HERE IT IS!!! THE SMOKING GUM (YOUR FOOD)!!!
"OBAMA'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!"
Call your WHITE CongressMAN quickly, Grampaw!


Some graphical aloha from the Aloha State.
"Hawaii In Pictures"
More foto's coming, brah.


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ALOHA HOMOPHOBIA

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HAWAII COACH TOTALLY F*GGED OUT:
FOOTBALL IDIOT INSULTS ALL GAYS

AND THE NAME OF HIS TEAM: THE RAINBOWS

Actually, It Was The "Rainbow Warriors," But They Changed It Because It Sounded "Too Gay"

*In reaction to this news story:

Here in Hawaii, we have a long history of coaches behaving badly. One took his HS team out for strippers & hookers in Vegas after a big win. All under age. Another one totaled his car on the freeway, completely whacked out, and never got a ticket. They're just that special.

Polynesians have a long history of acceptance of third & fourth-sexers, or males who choose to live as females and females who chose to live as males, way before reassignment surgery was a possibility. They're called mahu's, which is now a pejorative applied to all gays, though it used to be just another gender label. "Mahu's" themselves are very much a part of "Local" life today here in the Aloha State. Everybody has a "mahu" Auntie or cousin. The modern attitudes are a bit schizophrenic toward them, part tolerant traditional Polynesian and part Western "Christian" homophobic. It doesn't help that we have a whole political family demonizing gays in general. And they're closet-Hare Krishna's. You'd think they'd understand the need for tolerance, but they're at war against it. It's an interesting place, Hawaii. Sometimes.

The worst of it is, they were allowed to switch from Rep to Dem, despite all their homophobic BS. The local Dems really are schizy. They claimed to be pro-gay marriage, and then they stifled the new law with procedural horseshit.

I suspect it has to do with fund-raising. Like the pot issue, most people say, "Who cares? Legalize it." But the pol's seem to fear doing it anyway. It can only be money that causes that. Rich old families don't ever want anything to change. Why would they? And new money just enjoys the thrill of abusing power to f**k with the powerless. In terms of real nitty-gritty politics, gays are not well organized here. Simply being in the right isn't enough. You have to have leverage, like powerful supporters, which Hawaii gays evidently do not. Not enough, anyway.

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Filipinos in Hawaii probably have the most cross-dressing kids. I don't know what their status is, but unlike the comparatively homey & conservative Polynesian mahu's, the TV/TS/TG Filipina's cruise turista & military bars as females, livening up the local scene. Yet they live with their big extended families out in the 'burbs, exactly how I don't know.

As to religion, I think the small but mighty local Mormon church has a lot more to do with the strictures against gambling, gay marriage, pot, etc. The Filipino's really don't have anywhere near the clout in proportion to their numbers as the Mormons do here in Hawaii.

Until the dominant local Japanese are finally outnumbered by the Fil-Ams, they will be the ones calling the shots, and they are mostly not Catholic or Mormon, but Protestants and Buddhists. So, if you want to slice & dice local politics religiously, try a Ginzu knife.

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As to The Next Generation, maybe it's just the kids who are out & about that one sees, but it seems there is a fair number of gay kids, in addition to the Local Honda-racers and the hoochie-mamma's. I think the gay kids own the local Starbucks franchise. No idea what their home lives or interactions with straight kids are like. The older generation, I'd have to agree that those who are "out" tend to be white and from the Mainland. But even they stick close to a pretty small area: A couple of bars in Waikiki. The scene is pretty anemic since they bulldozed Hamburger Mary's, once the center of local nightlife, along with Hernando's, Pink Cadillac & The Wave, all gone. Nightlife here has never been the same.

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Yeah. Ya gotta wonder...
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Where does a 10-yr-old kid even pick up words like "dyke"? His mom? My parents never used any sort of slurs, other than good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxonisms. I was always kind of shocked as a kid when I did hear them. I don't recall ever hearing any anti-gay slurs anywhere until maybe junior high school, when the word "queer" came into limited use. I don't think most of the kids knew what it meant.

Of course, now we have the Internets, and, even worse, "conservatives" screaming about oral and anal sex on the freakin' news and all their horrible talk-radio shows. I could almost side with Tipper Gore on this one: But leave the record labels (etc.) alone, just tell those bloody vulgar Repukelickin's that KIDS ARE LISTENING!!! They really don't need to hear all this sexual stuff at age six or eight.

On the other hand, they're amazingly knowledgeable and blase about stuff I didn't even hear about until I was an adult. We've gone from virginal bobby-soxers to the hook-up generation in half a lifetime without all that much of a fuss these days, after the initial upheavals for sexual freedom in the 50's, 60's & 70's.

You'd think that the kids coming up would be pretty gay-friendly by now, but there is all this "mildly" negative stuff in the entertainment media that sort of nets out to "gay is not quite kewl." In fact it seems to be a synonym for unkewl. I blame so-called liberal writers & producer/ directors going for the cheap laugh and trying to be hip, even openly gay creators. If there were more movies about real people who happened to be gay and acted like movie heroes, it might help.

It took years of Hollywood pounding away at positive Irish, Catholic, Jewish, Italian, black and Latino stereotypes to help make expressions of prejudice against those groups unkewl. I suppose it'll take longer for gays because even successful "out" writers present negative gay stereotypes in the movies & shows. It's kinda like a movie featuring "Jew jokes" or seriously Steppin Fetchit characters in this day & age. But the creative types don't seem to realize that.

And, of course, these phony-macho sports a-holes don't help. Now THERE'S a sick culture.



PAM's HOUSE BLEND
"Weekend This & That: Open Thread"
Totally WAC.

' University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin drew sharp criticism for using a gay slur repeatedly during a Western Athletic Conference media day Thursday in Salt Lake City. The WAC football coaches are in Utah for the football season preview. McMackin was referring to last season's Hawaii Bowl when he said Notre Dame University's team did a "little f-----t dance" for Hawaii. That was during the banquet the night before the game when UH Warriors performed their haka. '

**MORAL FAILINGS AND OTHER ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIORS
"On the word "dyke" and stupid mothers"
What's in a name? A fat lip?

' I had placed my order and was waiting for it when a mother with two children came in; the little girl looked around 4, the boy around 9. They were talking, laughing, doing what kids do when they are about to get Jamba. I saw the little girl point at me and heard her say, "Mommy, why is that lady wearing boy's shorts?" Her brother piped up with, "Cause she's a dyke." '

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NEON ICONS

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FOTOS: GLOWING TUBULAR MESSAGES

A FEW LAST FLASHING LIGHTS

Helping You To Find Your Way In The Dark

If you hunt in the right places, you can still find some old-school neon signs, radiating eerily in the blackness. They're often in the worst neighborhoods, old and poor, run down and dangerous, where the new design aesthetic has not yet quite penetrated. Seedy bars and tiny shops, ancient eateries and strip joints under the freeway, low-rent dives and trouble on a streetcorner. These signs are there to mark it all, so you can find it again next time you're looking for trouble on a quiet night.


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FOTOS: HONOLULU'S VANISHING ELECTRIC HERITAGE

GONE THE GLOWING TUBES OF ADVERTISING GOODNESS

Old School Urban Night Lights Disappearing In The Dark

Translucent plastic fluorescent-lighted signs have largely replaced the garish neon of the 1940's, 50's & 60's as a means of advertising a small business in towns and cities all over America. Despised by many, banned by some towns, we never really missed them until they were almost gone. Now they are like the fireflies of our youth, merely a memory of a magical illumination in the blackness, victims of pollution light and dark. The signs once represented the hopes and dreams of little guys and gals around the country, staying up late to sling hash or pour beers, pump gas or bail you out of jail, all hoping to catch your eye with a bright and clever sign glowing in the darkness, hard-working night-owls trying to survive and maybe make that big score some day. Neon was used to indicate the raucous elements of night life in bad B-movies and great film noir, along with hot jazz and flashy characters, tilted cameras and sudden brilliant flashes of light. Sex, drugs and rock and roll all happened under a neon light for the first time for a lot of people back then. The neon lights that remain today remind us of our wonderfully tawdry past, like a lost motel on a forgotten highway. Here are some of the last neon signs left in downtown Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, in the State of Hawaii, USA.


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BUDDHIST CATHEDRALS, CHRISTIAN PAGODAS

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FOTOS: ARCHITECTURAL MULTICULTURALISM IN HAWAII

SPIRIT & SPIRITUALITY IN HONOLULU

Photographs Of Houses Of Worship In Downtown Honolulu


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MIDNIGHT AT THE OHTA WAFER FACTORY

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THE SCREAMS OF THE TORTURE VICTIMS DISTURB THE NIGHT




NO ONE DARES ASK WHO, OR WHAT, OR WHY

Everyone Pretends There's Nothing Going On

Once they began the torture, everyone was at risk. Even the torturers might one day find themselves being tormented by their successors. In fact, it was a certainty. Once the idea caught on that we could make people say or do anything we wanted just by torturing them, anyone could be tortured. As long as there was one person left untouched, the whole system was subject to question.

So I keep on going as I pass the Ohta Wafer Factory every night. I don't know what a wafer factory is, and I don't want to know. As long as it isn't me in there screaming in the middle of the night, I'm OK. Why make trouble? They will get to me soon enough. And no one will care. In the meantime, I can breathe the air freely, safe in the knowledge that, for the moment at least, someone else is suffering.

Tonight I heard a young woman screaming as I passed the "Wafer Factory." She sounded young, anyway. Maybe she was beautiful, before they went to work on her. From the sound of it, she would be a bloody mess by morning. I thought of going back in the morning, to see if they would dump her in the alley, as they sometimes did with their victims.

I could take her home and nurse her back to health. She might be grateful and perhaps she would begin to love me a little, after a while, maybe, who knows? But it wasn't worth the risk. She might turn me in. Anyway, short of torture, how could I make her love me, and keep on loving me? No. She would only pretend to love me if I tortured her and kept torturing her. Once I stopped the torture, the false love would stop. And it would always be false. It would never work. I couldn't take the risk. Once someone is free, you can't control them. I kept walking, ignoring the screams.


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PROOF: PRESIDENT IS NOT A CITIZEN!

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FOREIGN MEMORIALS ATTEST TO OBAMA's TRUE NATIONALITY

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE SHOWS HAWAII IS FOREIGN COUNTRY

If This Isn't A Reach, You Must Impeach!

If the glove doesn't fit, you must shut the f**k up about it! Think Hawaii's not a State? Think Obama wasn't born in the USA? Think again, right-tard!

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HONOLULU ADVERTISER
"Ortiz to be honored for rescues in 1941 Pearl Harbor attack"


Mr. America: Chinese-Filipino-Spanish Hawaiian cowboy grew up on Hickam Field (next to the Pearl Harbor Navy Base) before there was a US Army Air Force Base there: Just one of the real American heroes denied, denigrated and disrespected by Republicans. Why do conservatives hate the REAL America? Too brown? Too slanty-eyed? Too courageous?

' It was Dec. 7, 1941, and the battleship had rolled over after taking five torpedoes. Altogether, 429 crew were killed. But after the attack, dozens remained trapped inside. Ortiz, a Pearl Harbor shipyard worker, was strong — he later took sixth place in a Mr. America contest — and he was called on to chisel through the steel hull to save the trapped sailors. "So I cut a hole about 30 inches in diameter and everyone started jumping out. Some guy grabbed me and kissed me," the now white-haired Ortiz said with a laugh. He became a hero that day, but it was just part of the remarkable story of Claude Ortiz. Ortiz is a paniola, record-holding rodeo rider, saddle maker, champion weightlifter, Navy veteran and among the Pearl Harbor shipyard workers who pitched in to save others on Dec. 7, 1941. "Our Navy will always remember the heroic civilians like Claude who, on the morning of Dec. 7, jack-hammered through the hull of the USS Oklahoma to save the lives of our sailors, pulled sailors to safety from oil-covered water, and rushed to fight the hundreds of fires burning across Pearl Harbor," said shipyard commander Capt. Greg Thomas. "After the attack, Claude and the shipyarders resurrected the U.S. Pacific Fleet from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, repairing 15 of 18 major ships damaged in the attack — ships that returned to battle and carried the war home to Japan." '

PUA'AINA CRATER: NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETARY OF THE PACIFIC
The Arlington Of The Wars In The Asia-Pacific Region
Only United States Military Veterans & Family May Be Buried There
Citizens all, many heroes, evidence of our ongoing struggle for freedom, and the commitment of the good people of the 50th State of Hawaii to protect, preserve and defend our democracy, and honor the memory of our fallen soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coastguardsmen & women.

















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HAWAII IN PICTURES 6

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VIEWS OF THE ISLAND OF OAHU

SHIPS, BOATS & THINGS NAUTICAL IN HONOLULU

Foto's Of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu Harbor, Kaneohe Bay


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HAWAII IN PICTURES 5

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HAWAII IN PICTURES 4

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VIEWS OF THE ISLAND OF OAHU

BUDDHIST TEMPLES OF HONOLULU

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Nuuanu Temple 4



Nuuanu Temple 1



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