Posted on 11/19/2022 6:21:41 PM PST by Jyotishi
[Video] The video triggered fierce backlash online.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Big Island man is publicly apologizing after starting an uproar for posting a video of himself urinating on Mauna Kea.
After a torrent of criticism, he told Hawaii News Now he learned a valuable lesson and now wants to work to help educate others.
Travis Upright gave permission to share a video he recorded, asking for forgiveness.
“I never meant to hurt anyone. I never meant to create so much harm but that’s no excuse. It still happened and I’m sorry,” said Upright.
In the six-minute apology video, Upright -- who recently moved to the Big Island -- says he simply had no idea Mauna Kea was sacred to so many people.
His original post, which showed himself urinating near the summit, triggered a fierce backlash online.
“It was a trauma to watch,” said Hawaiian activist Healani Sonoda-Pale, one of the many Native Hawaiians who protested on Mauna Kea to block the Thirty Meter Telescope.
In a statement to Hawaii News Now, The Department of Land and Natural Resources said:
“While this activity certainly could be viewed as culturally disrespectful, there are no prohibitions against it in conservation district rules.”
Upright isn’t the first to apologize for insulting Hawaiians.
In 2019, it was someone who sledded down Mauna Kea. In 2021, a woman threw rocks into Lake Waiau.
“They have no business coming here if that’s how they are going to act,” said Sonda-Pale.
“Apologies are only meaningful if they are followed up by education. If he gets himself educated and then he goes educates other settlers and other visitors that come to Hawaii.”
Upright said he plans to do just that and hopes to help educate future generations.
“This arrogance. This vanity. This entitlement ends with me.”
Note
Mauna Kea (/ˌmaʊnə ˈkeɪə/;[6] Hawaiian: [ˈmɐwnə ˈkɛjə]; abbreviation for Mauna a Wākea)[7] is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi. Its peak is 4,207.3 m (13,803 ft) above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaiʻi and second-highest peak of an island on Earth. The peak is about 38 m (125 ft) higher than Mauna Loa, its more massive neighbor. Mauna Kea is unusually topographically prominent for its height: its wet prominence is fifteenth in the world among mountains, at 4,207.3 m (13,803 ft); its dry prominence of 9,330 m (30,610 ft) is second in the world, only after Mount Everest.[8] This dry prominence is taller than Mount Everest's height above sea level of 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft), and some authorities have labelled Mauna Kea the tallest mountain in the world, from its underwater base.[a]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea
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At least they know how to spell the name of the state.
Then you committed an act of idolatry.
Next we will have someone posting videos of pissing on Hanoi janes grave.......................
She’s only 84.
Leftys with Platinum healthcare tend to go a long time.
Well Mauna Kea offended me! I drove a Datsun 210 up to the summit back in ‘79. Got to the top and was in a pair of flip flops and was walking on the “snowy summit” and all of a sudden I lost my footing as it was ICE and not snow. I shed some blood by the time I stopped sliding into the volcanic rock! I didn’t realize I lost a ring on my finger until later in the day. Anyone find an opal ring back in the winter of ‘79?
Meanwhile, multitudes disrespect MY religous beliefs, my God, my Heavenly Father.
They use my taxes to fund and attending public exhibitions of urine, feces, and other disgusting displays using symbols of My God. The very God this Country was built upon. Instutions teach to disrespect.
Where are the apologies for that?
“So I recommend these Hawaiians grow some thicker skin.”
Some do, literally, and play ball in the NFL.
I vote for turning him to the native Hawaiians for an hour or two so that they can administer a good, solid attitude adjustment.
Hopefully, the perp will be recognizable after surgery and that he’ll also be able to walk again after therapy.
If they really worship a volcano, then they are worthy of no respect. Of course they don’t. It’s all manufactured victimhood, for cash, leftist-style.
Yeah, he would have liked that thought very much. 👍
Right. He found out that a smart aleck attitude, a cellphone camera, and social media can cause him some trouble. He probably knew that Mauna Loa is a public and significant place and not the kind of place where he should make a video of his bodily functions, but he did it anyway. I have had a few occasions to go alfresco. My grandmother didn’t have a toilet in her house until later in her life, and when I visited her farm I would find a tree away from the house and go there rather than use the outhouse, which I hated. No big deal. The dogs probably wondered what kind of “dog” had been there. But one time a while back I was walking a cemetery in the boondocks of southern Illinois where some of my relatives are buried, and I had to go. There were no houses close by. A car would pass the place about every half hour. But I didn’t feel right going there and found a tree outside the cemetery grounds. I respected the place.
Everyone needs to lighten up. It’s a mountain and he had to take a leak. So What.
sounds like these savages worship the earth instead of God.
And Christian America is paying a heavy price for worshipping the false idols of diversity and multiculturalism instead of God.
God is in control of all volcanoes and the way our country is blaspheming Him a volcanic chain reaction around the world may be just around the corner. “Only the Father knows.”
>> “Only the Father knows.”
Indeed.
Yes they are like certain Indians who protest doing anything useful on “sacred ground” in the Southwest. What they don’t tell the idiots of the media and the rat party is that they consider the entire earth “sacred ground.”
Bring him over to Hillary’s grave after she croaks.
If it hurt him so much to look at it, he should have stopped watching.
Many Hawaiians don’t like white people, and are always looking for an excuse.
It never bothered me when I spent time there because there is no real slander that hurts white people, because we’re awesome.
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