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Are Asian Americans bad people?

Asians make up less than seven (7) percent of U.S. households, yet about 70 percent of the Honolulu population, which is the largest community in the island state of Hawai'i.

Readers must remember the challenging history Asians suffered coming to America. They faced harsh headwinds of discrimination, prejudice and bias. And their positive contribution to America far exceeds their minority status. They are remarkable people and an inspiration to our nation.

For instance, Georgia Bulldog player Jamaal Jarrett is under fire after video apparently shows him making a racist remark toward an Asian man who delivered the Atlanta Falcons’ first-round pick announcement during the 2023 NFL Draft.

Jarrett wanted fellow Bulldogs defensive tackle Jalen Carter to be taken with the pick, but that’s when the person speaking in the video made the insensitive comment toward the man who was announcing Atlanta's pick.

Jarrett should be discipined by the Bulldog sports program. No excuse for such language and behaivor.

"Jalen Carter, come on Asian. Ching chong," the speaker, apparently Jarrett, is heard saying.

An 18-year-old Asian student at Indiana University recently reported she was standing and waiting for the exit doors to open on a Bloomington Transit bus when another passenger, 54-year-old Billie Davis, began striking her in the head. Davis is being held in the Monroe County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.

Asian Americans have increasingly been the target of racially motivated harassment and assaults, especially after the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mass shooting suspect, Huu Can Tran, 72 (below), was found dead after allegedly killing 10 mostly-Asian people and wounding 10 others in an attack during a lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, CA. Motive for the shooting remains unclear.

Unfortunately, as this record shows, a small group of overly-ambitious Asian Americans in Hawai'i, dominated heavily by females, has nurtured a climate of nepotism, favorism, localism, racial preference and unethical behavior. We must be cautious not to blame all Asian Americans for spoiled apples in the barrel.

Competition is a respected tradition in America, but we champion a commitment to fairness and equal opportunity for all. Asian women of Hawaiian Electric did not treat this White male victim fairly or professionally. They fail to honor the service of our national heroes — Veterans, and are callously cruel to some 35,000+ medical patients in the state.

Society applauds both Asian men and women as they ascend in Hawai'i and the U.S. We ask only that they do not forget the values that lead to their meteoric rise.

The Rabbit Hole highlights Asian Women surpassed White Males in Median Weekly Earnings around February 2019

Readers likley remember the Black Lives Matter movement. Due to the failed action of an extreme minority of police officers, the 95 percent of honorable, hard-working and courageous law enforcement personnel were disrespected. We must not allow this pattern to repeat with our Asian American colleagues, neighbors and friends.

The Asian contribution to America reinforces our national commitment to hard work, discipline, pursuit of excellence and ethical behavior, combined with a focus on kindness and compassionate treatment of others. These values are what the world admires when they consider the United States of America to be the "shining city on the hill."

Today, the political Left blames White men for all the evils and harm in the world. Hard when Asian women dump on men as well. Please be kind.

What is Localism?

After a two-week jury trial before United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright, a federal jury today found Defendants Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi (age 32) and Levi Aki, Jr. (age 33) each guilty of a hate crime for their racially motivated attacks on C.K., a White man, when he attempted to move into the home he had purchased in their neighborhood of Kahakuloa on Maui. [1]

"This is a Hawaiian village. The only thing coming from the outside is the electricity," and "You don't even belong in Hawai'i."

White people have heard such comments and suffered similar harassing threats for generations in Hawai'i. Locals have forgotten that it was Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) Prince Jonah Kuhio who called for statehood. Missionaries saved the Kanaka from extinction and the U.S. prevented a more powerful nation from usurping the island chain.

Localism occurs in Hawai'i in other forms, for example when locals defend or excuse negative behavior of friends, family members or similar ethnic groups toward new or visiting people. Sometimes this favoritism obscures incompetence, fraud and corruption in corporate management or government services. Creates waste and inefficiency. Everybody loses.

More intimidating localism occurred when newcomer C.K. told the two Defendants that he owned the house. Defendant Alo-Kaonohi dragged his index finger along C.K.’s jaw and told him, "You’ve got the wrong fucking color skin."

Defendant Aki then picked up a roofing shovel and handed it to Defendant Alo-Kaonohi, who struck C.K. in the head with it, causing a bloody wound on the back of C.K.'s head.

Such behavior is Hawai'i-KKK — anti-aloha. It's a bullying brand of localism White people are aware. Frustrated members of local culture blame White Americans for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, as well as their economic and social struggle in the islands. Ironically, Asians — not White families — are the largest, most dominant and wealthiest plurality in the state.

Most White people have endured the pain from being called haole. Prestigous, and respected local attorney, Megan Kau, a Native Hawaiian attorney, said it depends on the tone and manner in which the word is used. [2]

"These Native Hawaiians who live in a secluded, very traditional community who use the term 'haole' to describe people that are not from Hawai'i — that's the term that they use,” she said. "We all very often use the term 'haole.' It's not derogatory unless you use it in a derogatory sense."

"I said 'Cool. Was it a haole boy? He said yeah.'" No, it was a nigger boy; it was a chink boy. Who talks this way? Ignorant and uneducated racist people in Hawai'i, that's who!

Technically, haole means stranger. SK Kiyono from Kaneohe on O'ahu wasn't using the slur to describe a stanger; she meant white boy. So much racism in Hawai'i, nobody cares any longer.

To White folks, "haole" is the equivalent of "nigger" to Black Americans or "chink" to Asian Americans.

Here's an example how local Kanaka, Lina K K Kaehu (center), uses "haole" to slur Scott Goold in a conversation about Hawaiian history.

[SEE Lina K K Kaehu and Kanaka Maoli Threaten Violence]

This clip and entire conversation was sent to attorney Megan Kau for comment. She didn't respond.

Lina K K Kaehu claims to have the "pili koko" — or blood of the Kanaka Maoli. If one has the "right bloodline" in Hawai'i, they know the "absolute truth." Others are second class citizens. Folks, that's Hitleresque supremacy or KKK-type racism.