I am not in favor of Hawaiian (?) Monk seals in the Hawaiian islands as having more rights than our people. Hawaiian (?) Monk seals have a sanctuary from Necker to North Western Islands, and I strongly feel they should go there and leave our shores. The visiting turtles too.
I spent part of my day at Mahuka Heiau.
It was nice to have a friend treat me to lunch-dinner at Crouching Lion near Kahana Bay. I lived in Hauula for 14 years and never did I ever go there and have lunch. Make a long story short, I did a lot of looking around and really asked myself a lot of questions.
I was at places that I knew to be people less, and pristine during my time. That's all gone! What happen? Where did we go wrong? Hardly, did I see people that were local (born here), just people that lived here for only a few years.
I also went to see the movie "Descendents" yesterday, on a personal note it was demeaning to our ancestors. Where do we go from this space in time? Standing on our ancestors land in opposition to the recent visitors that have been here from the time of the first missionaries--is basically what I saying here.
Hawaiian Homestead only have 200,000 acres and much of that is in the hands of the general public for their profit making ventures. 40,000 of our families sit on a wait list trying to cope with the capitalist greed. We sit dead center in the upper Pacific Ocean as a target for capitalist unstable economics that is too a dead end.
We need bigger dreamers and deeper thinkers if we want to preserve our aina, our children and their future to exist.
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