Posted on 05/09/2021 4:35:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Comments on social media about a 16-year-old boy shot and killed by Honolulu police have been so hateful that a Catholic priest, who hails from the same small Pacific island as the teen's family, hesitates to repeat them.
"It is really bad and I don't want to say it as a priest," said the Rev. Romple Emwalu, parochial vicar at a parish outside Honolulu who was born in Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia. "But, like, 'Micronesians are dirt.'"
Some in the Micronesian community say the April 5 shooting of Iremamber Sykap highlights the racism they face in Hawaii, a place they expected to be more welcoming to fellow islanders.
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Hubby was born there but he gets no respect from Hawaiians either, lol.
Can you really tell the difference between a Hawaiian and a Micronesian? Both Pacific island minorities, right?
I knew a group of young Micronesian men in the ‘70’s. They were in Eugene, Or, going to college.
They each said that violence was endemic even then between rival gangs and even clans or tribes. They had to learn to fight with knives as teens, to protect themselves.
Yes, you can tell the difference. Hawaiians are Polynesian, and basically white. Micronesians are basically black.
1) They are from different islands, therefore are not "fellow islanders" but potentially deadly rivals.
2) These notions of "brown solidarity" exist primarily in the minds of white liberal journalists.
Yes. Some of them are almost black, real frizzy hair, tribal looking.
Very interesting. It appears that the racism in question is coming from other Pacific Islanders, not haoles who couldn’t tell a Micronesian from a Melanesian from a Polynesian from a Guatemalan.
Secondly, the young man was actively perpetrating a crime, one of a long series of crimes, and it’s difficult to believe he was shot because of his race.
Micronesians are tiny.
*snert*
It will be the subject of Spike Lee’s School Daze II, I’m sure, that will highlight the conflict between the Wannabes and the Jigaboos of polynesia.
Maybe a paper bag test will be involved.
Its amazing how less honest about racism we are today than we were in 1988.
When we lived in Hawaii 1968-71, we lived off-base, our kids were young so they did fine in school, but older haole kids were often bullied.
We heard of several instances where military families sent their high school age kids back to the mainland to live with relatives. They couldn’t afford to send their children to exclusive private schools such as Punahou where Obama attended.
Thanks, so Hawaiians are prejudiced against blacks, haha.
Hagar the Horrible’s dog?
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That can't be true. Every movie and TV show I've seen on the subject shows white kids picking on minorities.
Lol. Try being white!
“Can you really tell the difference between a Hawaiian and a Micronesian? Both Pacific island minorities, right?”
People who’ve lived in Hawaii don’t usually have heartwarming stories to tell about the ‘natives’.
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