HATE CRIMES IGNORED BY STATE OF HAWAII
In 2005 Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and her administration completely ignored my letter of complaint about an overt act of racism in Hawaii (see below).
Concealing, downplaying and ignoring the racist content of Rex Johnson's emails by Governor Lingle, the State Attorney General, our State Legislators including Speaker of the House Calvin Say, Senate President Colleeen Hanabusa, Representative Ryan Yamane, State Senator Clarence Nishihara, and State Senator Donna Kim, and State Auditor Marian Higa is consistent with past attitudes towards acts of racism and hatred targeting African Americans and other minorities in our community.
Another glaring example that racism and racist acts toward African Americans in Hawaii has been assigned a lesser degree of importance by our government is illustrated in the manner in which the State Attorney General and DBEDT withheld and redacted approximately 32 of the Johnson emails with sexual content from the public view by claiming: “elements of the email in question, either the body of the email or in an attachment, were deemed pornographic, and therefore withheld inasmuch as distributing pornographic material pursuant to a public information request would frustrate the legitimate government function of impeding the distribution of pornography “. However, they did not identify, redact or withhold emails containing racism and racial hatred, some of which are included on my website (see emails).
All of our requests for interviews with Governor Linda Lingle, House Speaker Calvin Say, Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, State Auditor Marion Higa, and HTA Board President Kelvin Bloom have been denied. We also sent questions to each HTA board member but they, too, refused to answer our questions or grant an interview.
We have now filed a formal complaint against the Hawaii Tourism Authority and its Board regarding this matter.
Following is the letter and pictures I sent to Governor Lingle in 2005 showing the Harbor Patrol's inadequate response to a very offensive, racist sign at Kewalo Basin. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these pictures will tell you everything about the sign and the response.
My complaint was ignored.......
