Authors
Charles Lawrence
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press and the Center for Biographical Research
Description
June 6, 2020: Over ten thousand people have come to the Hawaiʻi State Capitol in protest. They come from all of Hawaiʻi’s many families—Kanaka, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Sāmoan, Chukese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, and so many more. They are here in answer to my people’s call to join us in our grief and rage at the murders of our brothers and sisters, to end four hundred years of police and vigilante terror against us. To make Black lives matter.
Dr. Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua sits on the grass at Ala Moana Beach Park before the march begins. She is making a sign. Her five-year-old son, Moku, sits close beside her, watching her intently as she works. They are talking about why they are here, why they are making this sign, and what it means. The sign says,“FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY.” Moku wears a baseball hat pulled low across his serious eyes. The words on his hat say “KAPU ALOHA.” Eleven …
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