{"id":14072,"date":"2009-09-02T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T11:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2009-09-02T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T11:19:20","slug":"splc-finally-finds-some-racist-brown-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14072","title":{"rendered":"SPLC finally finds some racist brown people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VT Woody sends along this link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/intel\/intelreport\/article.jsp?aid=1081\">Southern Poverty Law Center report<\/a> in which they finally find some racist brown people. No, it&#8217;s not in Southeast DC, or Dearborn, Michigan or Brooklyn, NY. It&#8217;s not in East LA or in a Texas border town. It&#8217;s those Hawaiians.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is a hateful place to live if you are white,&#8221; wrote a woman on one Hawaii website&#8217;s comments section. A Hawaii native who is white wrote, &#8220;Racism exists in Hawaii. My whole life I&#8217;ve never really felt welcome here.&#8221; A sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor added that &#8220;this island is the most racist place I have ever been in my life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True to form, though, SPLC provides excuses for the racism &#8211; excuses that they would never provide, and rightfully so, in a report about hate groups on the right;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Hawaiian Studies professor at the University of Hawaii, Haunani-Kay Trask, is one of the most caustic critics of whites in the islands. In her 1999 book, From A Native Daughter, Trask wrote: &#8220;Just as \u2026 all exploited peoples are justified in feeling hostile and resentful toward those who exploit them, so we Hawaiians are justified in such feelings toward the haole. This is the legacy of racism, of colonialism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is just a fund raising tool for SPLC so they can hold up this report and tell contributors that they are color blind, that they&#8217;re concerned about white people, too &#8211; and the chance that they&#8217;ll offend any Hawaiians probably won&#8217;t impact their donorship much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VT Woody sends along this link to a Southern Poverty Law Center report in which they &hellip; <a title=\"SPLC finally finds some racist brown people\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14072\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPLC finally finds some racist brown people<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}