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Lulu Bell meant whore to a white women. How many times have Lulu Bell showed up on Maoliworld and there is nothing in place to stop this because of their Anglo history and Na Kanaka supporters. My children became a target in the ongoing targeting of native Hawaiian women living on Hawaiian Homestead Land by what I call “The Lulu Club” who is the headmaster and why? Getting pass the romanticisms is everybody’s kuleana. If, home is not taken cared off—how can we address the same four-hundred and thousands of years of frontal attacks on indigenous people?

I met Bell Hook when she came to University of Hawaii at Manoa--it was my wake up to feminism theory. Sadly, the only women that had the courage to challenge racism were Dr. Haunani K Trask. I was not even on board because I lacked the full meaning of 'racism'. And, I approached Haunani K with these words, "...I don't understand racism." I often reflect on that moment and too, I realize that I lacked the hate for white racism because I masked it with pain and suffering. What is weird, I lost my innocence and now feel utter hostile towards Anglo and their 400 years of violent abuses to our aina and its people and other indigenous people in the world. I now have a voice thanks to Dr. Haunani K Trask to voice the criminal acts of Anglos and their partner’s genocidal actions throughout the world. Specifically, on Maoliworld. This is my opinion on the racism abroad.

Many questions should be asked--is there truth to this story? Was the description and actual happening real or fictious? Are the details accurate? And these points of concern, how much of it is sensationalized with history romancing and with intent of malice? Why have you not approached the accusors of these incidents—especially the Statehood protestors that put out the Kahea, to do debriefing and or damage control on Maoliworld or somewhere so that we can cite their actions and intentions. The worst question to ask is why do we have political prisoners in Americas’ Penal System like Leonard Peltier? The runaways, fly aways, and the by ways exist and are not the line of defense. Those that are the first line of defense should be held accountable directly!

This is what’s printed in "Segregated Sisterhood" by Nancy Caraway:

Documents: "Bills for Sale for cargo received. Agricultural production figures for tobacco, cotton, and sugar, and rice in then million-pound units. The diaries of white women on the subject of concubinage and household management . The plantation ledgers of their husbands, calculating the dollar discrepancy paid for mulatto vs. full-blooded African children, both bred for comparative advantage on the domestic market." 1

Public Spectacles: Such as the October 1858 public humiliation of a Black female abolitionist/feminist forced by white ministers to bare her breasts to prove that she was not an imposter at a woman's rights convention and, indeed, that she was even a woman at all. 2

"Scientific" Practices: Among them, the codification and display of African Bodies in zoos, the 1810 spectacles, and the public exhibition of a nude African female to paying European audiences who ogled her "monstrous" buttocks. Her body and character were described by physicians as primitive, apelike, sexually wanton. After this victimized, totally estranged woman's death, more abuse followed, with the medical dissection of her body and genitals, to be fossilized as "deviant."3

Violative Work Rules: Enacted against contemporary Black female "cleaning ladies." One such Black woman routinely was forbidden to use her white employer's telephone, often the only frail link with her own abandoned children, until commanded to do so by her white mistress. For the maid who questioned such quixotic double standards, as did this one who verbally resisted her abuse, condemnation was heaped on her by whites for impudence and "talking back." Her strength of character and courageous speech were rewarded with the imposition of a jail sentence. 4

Sexual Abuse and Moral Condemnation of Slave Women: None perhaps more extreme than the rape, escape, and seven years' hiding in a dark, nine-by-seven-foot attic crawl space, of one Black female slave who left her story for us. In a desperate attempt prevent her hated white master from forcing her into concubinage, she relinquished her "purity" to another white man, eventually gaining for herself a measure of emancipation and "self-respect."5

1. Michelle Russell, "Slave Codes and Liner Notes," 13.

2. White men at a women's rights meeting in Silver Lake, Ind., demanded this of Sojourner Truth, who militantly obliged with the riposte that those black breasts had suckled many a white man—to the detriment of her own children. Truth’s experience, as historian Deborah Gray White claims, serves as a metaphor for the slave woman’s general experience of being totally unprotected: "Only black women had their womanhood so totally denied." See White, Ar'n't I a woman: Females Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: Norton, 1985), 162.

3. Saartjie Baartman, or the Hottentot Venus, was exhibited nude in the capitals of Europe and died in Paris at the age of 25: other African men and women were displayed in zoos. Sander Gilman, "Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth -Century Art, Medicine, and Literature," in "Race, " Writing and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 22-61 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985). Also see Nicholas Penny, "Fraternity," London Review of Books, 8 Mar. 1990, p. 22.

4. This is one of the incidents labor organizer Dorothy Bolden related about her exploitation as a domestic worker in white households; she was jailed for "talking back" to her employers. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, "Dorothy Bolden, Organizer of Domestic workers: She Was Born Poor but she would Not Bow Down," Sage 3, no. 1 (Spring 1986):53-55.

5. This is the remarkable story of the slave Harriet Jacobs. Aware of the sexual calculation which forced her to give her body to one white man in order to escape another, Jacobs forcefully questions the moral probity of whites in her slave narrative. Jacobs's narrative takes full responsibility for her actions, which seemed the only means available to free her children or herself. It was not she who should be blamed for her sexual violation, she argued, but slavery and the moral code which failed to provide protection for Black slave women. Jacobs refused both the role of pathetic victim and the injustice of being held accountable to the same standards of "ladyhood" as applied to free white women:

(This part needed to have a smaller fonts and indented)

It seems less degrading to give one's self than to submit to compulsion. There is something akin to freed in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment... Still, in looking back calmly, on the events of my life, I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others." (Jean Yellin, "Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself," in The Slave's Narrative, ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985], 55-56)

Also see Mary Helen Washington, "Meditations on History: The slave Woman's Voice," 3-15, and "Harriet Jacobs: The Perils of a Slave Woman's Life," 16-70, in Washington in Washington, Invented Lives; Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American coman Novelist (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), 40-61; Elizabeth Fox-genovese, Within the Plantation Household (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988), 372-96.

My apology's to the author for over citing, and possibly incorrections.

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Kaohi March 13, 2011 at 6:56am

Kai Landow,

On the day of the Senate to House signing of the Statehood Bill--Cyrus Green sang Kaulana Na Pua. At that time this song was almost treasonous to sing by many. But he did it! and my Na Kupuna told me this which how I remembered who sang this song. It was a chant and over the years turned into a song which was song by Cyrus Green in those years of silent protest.
- Kai Landow > Kaohi March 13, 2011 at 8:51am
  
  Mahalo for that mana'o
Kaohi March 11, 2011 at 11:13am

Lulu Bell meant whore to a white women. How many times have Lulu Bell showed up on Maoliworld and there is nothing in place to stop this because of their Anglo history and Na Kanaka supporters. My children became a target in the ongoing targeting of native Hawaiian women living on Hawaiian Homestead Land by what I call “The Lulu Club” who is the headmaster and why? Getting pass the romanticisms is everybody’s kuleana. If, home is not taken cared off—how can we address the same four-hundred and thousands of years of frontal attacks on indigenous people?

I met Bell Hook when she came to University of Hawaii at Manoa--it was my wake up to feminism theory. Sadly, the only women that had the courage to challenge racism were Dr. Haunani K Trask. I was not even on board because I lacked the full meaning of 'racism'. And, I approached Haunani K with these words, "...I don't understand racism." I often reflect on that moment and too, I realize that I lacked the hate for white racism because I masked it with pain and suffering. What is weird, I lost my innocence and now feel utter hostile towards Anglo and their 400 years of violent abuses to our aina and its people and other indigenous people in the world. I now have a voice thanks to Dr. Haunani K Trask to voice the criminal acts of Anglos and their partner’s genocidal actions throughout the world. Specifically, on Maoliworld. This is my opinion on the racism abroad.

Many questions should be asked--is there truth to this story? Was the description and actual happening real or fictious? Are the details accurate? And these points of concern, how much of it is sensationalized with history romancing and with intent of malice? Why have you not approached the accusors of these incidents—especially the Statehood protestors that put out the Kahea, to do debriefing and or damage control on Maoliworld or somewhere so that we can cite their actions and intentions. The worst question to ask is why do we have political prisoners in Americas’ Penal System like Leonard Peltier? The runaways, fly aways, and the by ways exist and are not the line of defense. Those that are the first line of defense should be held accountable directly!

This is what’s printed in "Segregated Sisterhood" by Nancy Caraway:

     Documents: "Bills for Sale for cargo received. Agricultural production figures for tobacco, cotton, and sugar, and rice in then million-pound units. The diaries of white women on the subject of concubinage and household management . The plantation ledgers of their husbands, calculating the dollar discrepancy paid for mulatto vs. full-blooded African children, both bred for comparative advantage on the domestic market." 1

     Public Spectacles: Such as the October 1858 public humiliation of a Black female abolitionist/feminist forced by white ministers to bare her breasts to prove that she was not an imposter at a woman's rights convention and, indeed, that she was even a woman at all. 2

     "Scientific" Practices: Among them, the codification and display of African Bodies in zoos, the 1810 spectacles, and the public exhibition of a nude African female to paying European audiences who ogled her "monstrous" buttocks. Her body and character were described by physicians as primitive, apelike, sexually wanton. After this victimized, totally estranged woman's death, more abuse followed, with the medical dissection of her body and genitals, to be fossilized as "deviant."3

     Violative Work Rules: Enacted against contemporary Black female "cleaning ladies." One such Black woman routinely was forbidden to use her white employer's telephone, often the only frail link with her own abandoned children, until commanded to do so by her white mistress. For the maid who questioned such quixotic double standards, as did this one who verbally resisted her abuse, condemnation was heaped on her by whites for impudence and "talking back." Her strength of character and courageous speech were rewarded with the imposition of a jail sentence. 4

     Sexual Abuse and Moral Condemnation of Slave Women: None perhaps more extreme than the rape, escape, and seven years' hiding in a dark, nine-by-seven-foot attic crawl space, of one Black female slave who left her story for us. In a desperate attempt prevent her hated white master from forcing her into concubinage, she relinquished her "purity" to another white man, eventually gaining for herself a measure of emancipation and "self-respect."5

1. Michelle Russell, "Slave Codes and Liner Notes," 13.

2. White men at a women's rights meeting in Silver Lake, Ind., demanded this of Sojourner Truth, who militantly obliged with the riposte that those black breasts had suckled many a white man—to the detriment of her own children. Truth’s experience, as historian Deborah Gray White claims, serves as a metaphor for the slave woman’s general experience of being totally unprotected: "Only black women had their womanhood so totally denied." See White, Ar'n't I a woman: Females Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: Norton, 1985), 162.

3. Saartjie Baartman, or the Hottentot Venus, was exhibited nude in the capitals of Europe and died in Paris at the age of 25: other African men and women were displayed in zoos. Sander Gilman, "Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth -Century Art, Medicine, and Literature," in "Race, " Writing and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 22-61 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985). Also see Nicholas Penny, "Fraternity," London Review of Books, 8 Mar. 1990, p. 22.

4. This is one of the incidents labor organizer Dorothy Bolden related about her exploitation as a domestic worker in white households; she was jailed for "talking back" to her employers. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, "Dorothy Bolden, Organizer of Domestic workers: She Was Born Poor but she would Not Bow Down," Sage 3, no. 1 (Spring 1986):53-55.

5. This is the remarkable story of the slave Harriet Jacobs. Aware of the sexual calculation which forced her to give her body to one white man in order to escape another, Jacobs forcefully questions the moral probity of whites in her slave narrative. Jacobs's narrative takes full responsibility for her actions, which seemed the only means available to free her children or herself. It was not she who should be blamed for her sexual violation, she argued, but slavery and the moral code which failed to provide protection for Black slave women. Jacobs refused both the role of pathetic victim and the injustice of being held accountable to the same standards of "ladyhood" as applied to free white women:

(This part needed to have a smaller fonts and indented)

     It seems less degrading to give one's self than to submit to compulsion. There is something akin to freed in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment... Still, in looking back calmly, on the events of my life, I feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others." (Jean Yellin, "Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself," in The Slave's Narrative, ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985], 55-56)

Also see Mary Helen Washington, "Meditations on History: The slave Woman's Voice," 3-15, and "Harriet Jacobs: The Perils of a Slave Woman's Life," 16-70, in Washington in Washington, Invented Lives; Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American coman Novelist (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), 40-61; Elizabeth Fox-genovese, Within the Plantation Household (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988), 372-96.

My apology's to the author for over citing, and possibly incorrections.

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