I like this one too, "What does Hawaii have to offer the world?" "Learn from our mistake... and put your faith in your kupuna" which is exactly what I do even though I am an American by choice:

I'm still in Seattle and to my surprise the producer of this video: http://haolegirl.livejournal.com/1111782.html commented in my Livejournal. He said:

"Every so often, I make the rounds on the web and look at what's being said on the blogs and web sites about Hawaiian issues (yes, I'm a ( Read more... )

I wrote about conversion and how it is illegal. Well I recently read about a recent ruling of the Hawaii Supreme Court that rarely if ever protects the rights of Hawaiians. Today it makes me happy knowing that in June Chief Justice Moon in a 5-0 decision he wrote that claimants have a right to seek monetary damages in Circuit Court ( Read more... )

I miss my sweetie so much. In fact I miss him so much my eyes tear up when I think about him.

Of course Kalani showed this picture to me of a guy. The one second from the right who is supposedly Haole and Hawaiian (like me) and who is from Kauai:


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One thing with Hawaiians is that there are a small handful of pilau Hawaiians who ack o ka stupid online and/or offline. NO MATTAH. Case in point dis one from Keaukaha of all places where I grew up ( Read more... )

Here is an excerpt of part of my brain LOL It's in response to Jere Krischel whom I write about in the third person:

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Here is an old picture of Queen Kapiolani and Princess Liliuokalani who later became Queen:


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One thing that annoys me is that the media inaccurately portrays Hawaiians. Some times we are even portrayed as monsters which REALLY annoys me but people are fighting for our land which means money to them so I can understand why some people like to dry to de-HUMANize us Hawaiians. Some have the AUDACITY to say that we are anti-American ( Read more... )

Derek K. recently wrote his manao about violence against women. Unfortunately I cannot post a link to it since some men stalk me. Online and offline but Derek K. wrote a poignant piece about violence against women ( Read more... )

I am not surprised that the local paper had a very small blurb about him but at least they showed a pic of him. That's one of my pet peeves is when they do not show Hawaiians as human beans. I mean as human beings. Also they do not show many pictures of us which annoys me some times so in this example... I am glad that at the very least... they ( Read more... )