How real is the rascism ?

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Originally posted by MarkP

I used to work with an engineer who iss 50% native Hawaiian. That makes him more Hawaiian than most. He has a pretty light complexion so back in school he got picked on for being "haole". Ironic. He has a beautiful house in Hawaii Loa Ridge. I wonder how he would feel about the concept of "fixing" the broken system that brought him to where he is today. Should the title to his house be re-evaluated? Perhaps he would get a reprieve, that is if the worthy people who used to beat him up as a kid because he wasn't local enough, who ironically were less local than he, decide that this time around he should get a break because of his race. I suspect they would not. I suspect that those people who clamor most loudly about injustice, the need for reparations, and the advisability of overturning the apple cart do so mostly because they are at the bottom of the heap and race is just what is convenient.

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Rings true.