Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 18, Number 5, 1 May 2001 — Why FBI? [ARTICLE]

Why FBI?

I am a Hawaiian Homes beneficiary and have enjoyed reading Ka Wai Ola. I, too, was surprised and betrayed by your promoting the FBI ad. Your paper states you are here to "help inform its Hawaiian beneficiaries and other interested parties about Hawaiian issues and activities. Inclusion doesn't constitute endorsement or validation of the event or the sponsor by OHA" By advertising for the FBI, you are encouraging, endorsing and validating them. Would you allow the Ku Klux Klan ad space? Hawaiians are in the process of rehabilitation. We need examples that perpetuate and promote "aloha" instead of programming FBI mentality. In the present moment, being responsible to ourselves, our ancestors, to regain our values inherited from them that that colonized way of thinking, FBI doesn't take into account, yet perpetuates the shadows, the gray areas we are coming out of! As a Hawaiian and human being, I ask that your newspaper stop that kind of advertising whieh promotes further separation, genocide of that whieh is "life giving" and aloha oriented! Continue to give us readers "waters of life" and hope instead of triggers that remind us of "enslavement, detrimental ways" that kind of thinking the FBI perpetuates. Take responsibility for what goes into Ka Wai Ola o OHA. Anakura Melemai Kea'au

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