I have had the opportunity to have someone from over my Kohala Mountain here on Maoliworld bring up a "who's got koko" more by pointing out he comes from a pure blood hawaiian line. I guess he was trying to make a point that what I do for the North Kohala district means nothing to him or that I don't have any experience in protecting sacred sites. LOL.So what does being pure hawaiian prove but getting on a list of Hawaiian Homes? Does it prove anything else when you start conversation and say "well I got more koko than you and my words have more validity than you and you're a nobody?" Yet he doesn't provide "who he is" and feels he doesn't need to prove it. But he's from South Kohala, says his father from Molokai and mother from Kohala. So he doesn't believe who I am and what my family has done for Kohala so I have referrred him to Papa Akau in Kawaihae, former Ali'i 'Aimoku of Pu'u Kohola heiau in South Kohala. Papa is not feeling well right now but he is still on our board of directors seat for Maika'i Kamakani 'O Kohala. He knows my family and so I don't need to prove my koko.I gotta laugh at the belligerence and classism category, this person had made a comment of what is aloha yet he is disrespectful with a big pohaku on his shoulders. In my opinion, what matters is the heart and spirit behind the koko, not how much koko you have on paper...anyone else?
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