09-01-2009, 12:11 AM
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Originally posted by Aaron S
When I went to public school here it was really difficult.I was teased mercilessly because I am tall and haole. It took me a long time to heal from the pain of this harassment (I graduated high school in 1994). Thus anyone who says racism doesn't exist in our schools here is living in denial !
Your right, it does exist to some degree. The Southern Poverty Law Center has an article about racism in Hawaii which includes some references to incidents in schools.
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelrepo...p?aid=1081