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
Another lesson learned to pee in private and don’t post a video..........................
Oh how funny! My dad took a leak down Mount Vesuvius in the waning days of WWII.
Haole blaspheming Pele?
Long pig on the menu?
He can be the guest of honor at the Captain Cook Banquet.
Well, it hasn’t erupted in almost 80 years, so thanks?
“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.
If the volcano is offended, it knows what to do!
Scared the lesser intellect pagan natives.
Was it Ozzy?
Throw him to Pele!
If that made em mad, they are really gonna be torqued about what I did as a young Marine there in the PTA on those volcanoes.
I guess I am just not very creative, because that is something I would never have thought of doing.
2) '“It was a trauma to watch,” said Hawaiian activist' Bullshit.
>> If the volcano is offended, it knows what to do!
ROFL
Pagans. Worshipping “dumb stuff” since Creation.
Here’s the prophet Elijah making fun of pagans and their deaf and dumb gods:
Starting about noon, Elijah began to tease [the priests of Baal]: “Shout louder! He’s a god, so maybe he’s busy. Maybe he’s relieving himself...”
Isaiah and Ezekiel were pretty good at mocking pagans too.
Screw em. Videoing myself urinating isn’t my thing but nothing I consider sacred is worthy of respect, according to popular culture. So I recommend these Hawaiians grow some thicker skin.
You may laugh, but in the late ‘60s my family took a six mile hike across the floor of Kilauea crater.
As luck would have it, a 6 year old needed to pee and couldn’t wait.
Two days later, as we were leaving, Pele started a spectacular eruption that lasted for years.
The next time we visited the Big Island, we threw in M & Ms candy to appease her.:0)
When yo got to go, you got to go. Wherever.
It was the video that was stupid.
Hawaiians drink gallons of beer all around Mauna Kea and have to empty their bladders.
It was some white guy making a mocking video that would p!ss anyone off.
I plans to post vids here of me urinating, but I have to wait until the Clintoons and Pelosi kick off and I go to show my respects.
“They have no business coming here if that’s how they are going to act,”
So, does this person think all the drunk Hwaiians hold the beer they guzzle everywhere they go, until they get to culturally respectful place?
Residents here know how local Hawaiians dump their trash everywhere, cultural sensitivity be damned.
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