I don't watch the news much (too depressing and/or frustrating), but I happened to catch the channel 2 report last night about the Ranch's closing. What really irritated me was that they showed an older Hawaiian woman who works there. I don't know what her intention was with her comments, but by the way the news people edited her interview, her comments seemed to infer that the Ranch's closing was because of the protests, and that the problem was "Hawaiians against Hawaiians."I say it's the media that keeps pitting "Hawaiians against Hawaiians."From my limited knowledge about La'au Point, this is not about "Hawaiians against Hawaiians." This was about the majority of Molokai's residents against development that would have a direct negative impact on the island and its resources. It wasn't even about Hawaiians against Molokai Ranch...from what I've read, the residents didn't oppose most of the ranch's development plans. It was specifically the La'au Point portion that they didn't want.Molokai Ranch backing out like this is akin to a 2-year old child throwing a temper tantrum because his lollipop was taken away. But even though the ranch provides jobs, do the residents really want a child like this being the bully in the school? The ranch didn't care about what the residents wanted throughout the whole La'au process, so why would the island want to keep the ranch around? Hawaiians traditionally took care of their own...so that's what to do now. Not depend on the big bully who doesn't really care about you.I just had to chime in with my two cents...this whole thing about "Hawaiians against Hawaiians" is getting old. It's not about that anymore. We should know better by now that we need to all work together and help each other if we ever hope to rule our own nation.
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