06-17-2012, 06:50 AM
ugh, I should not make posts on my phone, before having my coffee. It's not possible to be coherent about a complex topic.
opihikao, you are wrong about me; what we have here is message board confusion. I've done it to people too.
Look, I've lived here ten years, most of that time in neighborhoods where there were/are few other transplants. In all that time, I've never once offended any of my neighbors with any kind of prejudicial or stereotyping comment, and if I had the attitude you seem to think I have that I certainly would have stumbled into some sort of mess. No, it's only on Punaweb that people pick at stuff and misread it. I am guilty of the same, but am trying to not do that any more.
As for Ainaloa, what you see in a neighborhood will often depend on whom you have talked to. If you talk to all the people who are moving in and making changes, that is one outlook, but not the only one.
I was privileged to hear about life there from a kid who grew up there. He was a sort of delinquent kid who had straightened up. His relatives had knocked him around on a regular basis. He and his friends felt, growing up, that people who have more should be relieved of their extra stuff by people who have less. (FYI, in case someone decided to read another non-existent reference to Native Hawaiians into this, this young man was not Native Hawaiian. )
I have read a fair amount of Ainaloa-related news stories over the years here. I will see if I can find some of them archived and post some links for the OP.
opihikao, you are wrong about me; what we have here is message board confusion. I've done it to people too.
Look, I've lived here ten years, most of that time in neighborhoods where there were/are few other transplants. In all that time, I've never once offended any of my neighbors with any kind of prejudicial or stereotyping comment, and if I had the attitude you seem to think I have that I certainly would have stumbled into some sort of mess. No, it's only on Punaweb that people pick at stuff and misread it. I am guilty of the same, but am trying to not do that any more.
As for Ainaloa, what you see in a neighborhood will often depend on whom you have talked to. If you talk to all the people who are moving in and making changes, that is one outlook, but not the only one.
I was privileged to hear about life there from a kid who grew up there. He was a sort of delinquent kid who had straightened up. His relatives had knocked him around on a regular basis. He and his friends felt, growing up, that people who have more should be relieved of their extra stuff by people who have less. (FYI, in case someone decided to read another non-existent reference to Native Hawaiians into this, this young man was not Native Hawaiian. )
I have read a fair amount of Ainaloa-related news stories over the years here. I will see if I can find some of them archived and post some links for the OP.